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0210 Southern Tibet : vol.7
南チベット : vol.7
Southern Tibet : vol.7 / 210 ページ(カラー画像)

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doi: 10.20676/00000263
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»Between Ladak and Yarkund, I have been told by an intelligent servant of Mr. Moor-
croft's of fatal consequences from the want of due precaution. He says that the
passages of the lofty range should be made while fasting, and recommends frequent
doses of emetic tartar during the journey. He relates an instance of a wealthy Russian
merchant who was on his way to Leh, of Ladak, to see Mr. Moorcroft, having perished
in crossing one of the passes because he made a hearty meal before starting.»¹

Then he gives a discussion on the physiological effects of the reduced
atmospheric pressure, which may be said to be classic.

Nor had Capt. Alexander Gerard on his brilliant journey in 1821, an
opportunity to get any information on the Kara-korum. He only indirectly touches
upon the mountains when speaking of Ladak: »The country is very mountainous,
and occupies a great extent on both banks of the Sing-Zhing-Khampa, or Indus
river: it is bounded on the North by Yarkund, and its dependencies; on the East
and South East by Chinese Tartary.... The hills are of a crumbling gravelly nature,
and seldom shoot into peaks; and by the description of travellers, I conclude they
are composed of limestone. The whole tract is arid and almost without foliage....»²

Like most other travellers and geographers of his time he extends the southern
limits of Chinese Tartary, i. e. Eastern Turkestan so far south as to place it S. E.
of Ladak. This may be explained from d'Anville's map and the general ignorance
of the eastern stretching of the Kwen-lun System.