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0287 Southern Tibet : vol.7
南チベット : vol.7
Southern Tibet : vol.7 / 287 ページ(カラー画像)

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extent, and then swelling upwards until it met the horizon, and thereby gradually
diminished the elevation of the mountain-tops by which it was bounded». He passed
a night on the glacier. »The next two or three nights were to be passed in
a similar manner on the ice, and two lofty and difficult ridges were to be crossed
upon the way.» The glacier still rose gradually and majestically, seeming to rise
in height with the giant peaks on either side of it, and completely hiding all that
was beyond it. On account of the late season of the year, our traveller had to
return. Thereby he »ascended a defile» leading from the Saltoru valley to the
village of »Kor Chondus».

Vigne's map Pl. XL.¹ completed by J. Walker in 1842 and taken principally
from the MSS surveys of himself, is of considerable interest, as it very clearly and
distinctly points out the Kara-korum Mountains. To the east, however, it terminates
rather abruptly and in its eastern prolongation is written: »Long open slopes free
from snow in summer.» We find a »Pass to Yarkund» i. e. the Kara-korum Pass
south of which there are the two source branches of the »Shai Yok or Northern
branch of the Indus». The eastern source branch comes down from the pass, the
other from the »Nubra or Khundun Tsoh Lake,» or, as we should write it: The
Kumdan-tso. Where the Kichik Kumdan glacier goes down to the valley we only
read the word »Glacier». South of it is »Sisur Hill» or Saser-davan, and two other
mountains on the road from Nubra to Kara-korum. There we also read the legend:
»This path, from Nubra to Yarkund, is used only when the bed of the River is too
full to be crossed and recrossed by wading.»

The Nubra valley is also marked in its correct direction. North of the Kara-
korum Pass Walker has the source of the Yarkand River. The valleys north of
Khopalu join the »Northern Branch of the R. Indus or Shyk Yak R.» One of
them, which is called Khondur, must be the Kondus joining the Saltoro valley
at Domsum (Dansam). The glacier Vigne ascended must be the Bilafond, judging
from its situation and from the legend: »Way over Glacier by Alibransa pass to
Yarkund». Near the junction of the Saltoro valley with the Shayok, a northern
tributary joins the Saltoro and has the legend: »River whose sources are in the spurs
of the Mustak».

Farther west we have the »Shighur Valley». Its eastern branch, »Brahal Doh»
has a »Way to foot of Mustak 8 or 10 days for a footman,» and at its source:
»Pass to Hunzi,» and just beyond, on the north side of the Mustak, and its »Pass
to Yarkund» we read along a river: »7 days march to the Junction with the Kara-
kurum road to Yarkund».