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0281	Southern Tibet : vol.7
南チベット : vol.7

0281

Southern Tibet : vol.7

南チベット : vol.7

be the superior ridge, since it divides the waters of Central Asia from those which
flow south. It is one continuous chain; while, on the contrary, the Himalaya is pierced
by both the Kuner and Indus rivers; and no stream that has its rise in this range
runs towards the north.»¹

Baron CARL VON HÜGEL never went so far east as Ladak, nor did he approach
the Kara-korum System at all, so the information he was able to bring back was
indeed very poor. He himself regards the road between Ladak and Yarkand as
leading through nearly perfectly unknown regions:

Von Ladhak nach Yarkand werden 40 Tage Wegs durch fast gänzlich unbebaute
Gegenden angenommen. — Iskardu hat nur mit Kaschmir und Ladhak Verbindung, und
obgleich es heisst, dass es möglich sei, seinen Weg von Iskardu nach Turkestan durch
Kaschgar und Badakschan zu finden, so wird dennoch von den wenigen Reisenden, welche
ein Geschäft dahin führt, entweder jener über Kaschmir und Kabul, oder der über Ladhak
und Yarkand gewählt.²

Later on in his narrative Hügel discusses the possibility of an invasion of
India by the Yarkand Ladak road: Dass eine Armee diesen Weg durch unbewohnte
Wüsten nicht nehmen werde, um Indien anzugreifen, ist augenscheinlich, und einem
kleinen Korps würden weder die Chinesen den Durchzug erlauben, noch ihre
Erscheinung in Kaschmir von irgend einem Nutzen seyn, wo dasselbe auf sich selbst
beschränkt wäre.³

To the second part of Vol. IV of Hügel's work which was published in 1848,
John Arrowsmith has drawn a map containing the Bavarian Baron's itineraries.⁴ The
Kara-korum road is entered with all its stations, and between the two Barangsar is
a rather mighty range Kara-korum M. The rest of the system is not at all entered
on the map (Vide Pl. XXXIX), and the country north of Skardu is left blank.

In G. T. VIGNE'S narrative we find the first autoptic descriptions of the Kara-
korum Mountains, so far as he came in contact with them on his remarkable journey.⁵
He visited our region in 1835, and travelled with open eyes. Only at the end of
the second volume of his work we reach those parts of Western Tibet and Kara-
korum which interest us here. He characterizes it as a country of immense peaks
visible from every elevated pass; in this respect Western Tibet differs somewhat with
the easterly parts of the Himalaya, where the country is covered by long connected ridges,
and where, with the exception of Nepal, there is no table-land on the southern face.

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