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Southern Tibet : vol.7

南チベット : vol.7

mountains covered with eternal snow, for *Keukri* is certainly the Tibetan *Kangri,*
snow-mountain, and *mouson,* the Mongolian *musun,* ice. Near Frontiere d'Yerghien,
or boundary of Yarkand, we find the mountains, Lapoutsi M. and Tchae M., which
I cannot make out. Finally there is a Kirian M., Keria or Kilian Mountains, as
suggested above.

D'ANVILLE'S map of 1733 may be said to be the first on which there is space
enough left for the Kara-korum System. Though the system itself is missing, there
is a road crossing it, and the map indicates by its Kenkri-mouson, that very high
mountains are crossed by the road. The mountains entered at both sides of Routou,
Rudok, are indeed parts of the Kara-korum System. And it may be said that this map
is the first we know of, on which we find a rudimentary representation of one single
crossing of this enormous system, great parts of which still at present remain unknown.

Already some 18 years before d'Anville's famous map was published, a European,
IPPOLITO DESIDERI, seems to have crossed a part of the southern Kara-korum System.
He mentions Baltistan or Little Tibet, which indeed belongs to our system. On
August 17th, 1715 he left Leh and if it is correct as I have tried to show¹, that
he travelled to Tashi-gang *viâ* Rudok — for he speaks of the wide waterless plain
of Cianghthang — he has crossed a part of the Kara-korum Mountains. Of Tibet
Proper or Butan, which in the language of the country was called Po, he says: »To
the north it is bounded by hard and desolate places, being the way which leads to
high independent Tartary and the kingdom of Yarkand.» And further: »The third
Tibet is so vast, that one needs six months good and continuous journey between
Gartok and Sining. Its breadth is very different in different places. The province
of Zang-to, which is 2½ months across, stretches far to the north to the wild rocks
which are on the frontier of the kingdom of Yarkand, and to the impracticable
mountains which form a wall to high independent Tartary or the country of the
Dsungarians.» In the east he just only notes the existence of a road from Lhasa
*viâ* Sining to China and the Lower Tartary.²

He thus not only touched a part of the Western Kara-korum on his journey,
but also had knowledge of roads crossing the whole system, both in the west and
in the east, though of the system itself he could, of course, not know anything. In
an article: *Notes sur le Tubet par le P. Hippolyte Desideri, recuellies par N. Delisle,*
the road from Yarkand to Ngari, crossing the Kara-korum, is also mentioned as
follows: Pour aller de Yarkand au Tubet on passe par le désert de Ngari Jongar,
auquel on arrive par un passage entre deux montagnes qui nulle autre part ne sont
praticables. Le pays de Ngari Jongar dépend du Tubet.³

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