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0195	Southern Tibet : vol.7
南チベット : vol.7

0195

Southern Tibet : vol.7

南チベット : vol.7

Lop at all. Already 100 years earlier RENAT had brought back a very good map of
Eastern Turkestan and the Tarim System, but it was unknown to Wilson as well as
to everybody else of his time.

During his stay at Leh, MOORCROFT made several excursions. Once he went
*viâ* the Diger pass to Nubra, where he found 167° in the hot springs. Another
time he travelled to Nimo (Niemo). For Indus he always uses the correct name,
Sinh-kha-bab (Singi-kabab). *Viâ* Jimre and Takti he went to Chang-la, and estimated
the height of the pass at 17,800 feet.¹ The water of the »Pangkung lake» was
found to be extremely salt. TREBECK crossed the Tsaka-la, which was estimated at
15,000 feet.² On the other side was the valley of the Sinh-kha-bab between low and
rounded hills, consisting »apparently of clay-slate, although fragments of granite, quartz,
and sandstone were strewn upon their sides». November 23rd they commenced the
return journey to Leh, *viâ* Chushal and the Man-bar pass, estimated at 16,500 feet.

In general it may be said that the second journey of Moorcroft was, as a geo-
graphical performance, less rich in detail and far less important than the first one,
to Manasarovar. Mr. JOHN ARROWSMITH, who constructed the map from TREBECK'S
fieldbooks, found these minute, careful and accurate (Pl. XXIII).³ The survey was made
in paces, bearings by compass; barometer and thermometer read at principal ele-
vations. In the compilation other maps were also used, *e. g.* Baron HÜGEL'S,
Dr. GERARD'S, and others. It is, however, curious that Moorcroft and Trebeck, and
with them Arrowsmith, could ignore the existence of a Kwen-lun System. They could
easily have misunderstood the Chinese geographers, but the verbal description of
Mir Izzet Ullah ought to have given them reason to suspect one more very con-
siderable mountain system north of the Kara-korum.

»Yagni Dawan» (Yangi-davan) is on the map, although placed only in a very
small range, at the southern part of which is the Yarkand-river. They are correct
in making the river begin from the Kara-korum mountains, but they are not aware
of its piercing through another high range farther on. The Pamir was too little
known, as is seen on the map. The Kara-kul Lake is marked out with R. Yaman-
yar going to the Kashgar River. Sir-i-kol is a little place and there is hardly any
sign of the high Kashgar Range bordering the Pamirs to the east. In a little lake
called Sir-i-kol is the »Source of the Oxus».

The most interesting features of the map are: The non-existence of Kwen-lun,
the Kara-korum being regarded both in the text and on the map as the southern

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