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0296 Southern Tibet : vol.7
南チベット : vol.7
Southern Tibet : vol.7 / 296 ページ(カラー画像)

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doi: 10.20676/00000263
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»Khotan, in Chinese Yu-tien and Khotien, is the name of a little country in
Eastern Turkestan, which, in the south, borders upon the Tibetan steppes, in the
north upon the districts of the cities Kucha, Sairam and others . . . .»

His information regarding the Nan-shan or Southern Mountains is, however,
in contradiction to the above statement, for he says: »There is also another range
called the Southern Mountains, namely the one forming the southern boundary of
Eastern Turkestan separating the dominion of Khotan from Tibet.»¹

When at about the same time, the Swedish diplomat Baron C. d'Ohsson
published his memorable History of the Mongols, he was perfectly aware of the
fact that Tibet was a very vast country full of high mountains, but he was not in
a position to control the report given to Chingis Khan in 1223 regarding »thick
forests» covering this country.² D'Ohsson says:

Au printemps de l'année 1223, Tchinguiz-khan résolut de retourner en Mongolie,
par l'Inde et le Tubbet . . . . L'armée prit la route du Tubbet; mais au bout de quelques
journées elle reçut contreordre. On réconnut toutes les difficultés qu'elle aurait à vaincre
pour traverser une vaste contrée, hérissée de hautes montagnes et couverte d'épaisses forêts.
Tchinguiz-khan retourna à Peschavour, pour gagner la route qui l'avait conduit en Perse.

In spite of Mir Izzet Ullah's and a few Russians' and Orientals' journeys
across the Kara-korum Pass, this road across the whole mass of mountains between
India and Eastern Turkestan remained very little known even to geographers. Both
north and south of the mountains many Europeans heard of it, even from Bernier's
and Desideri's time. From 1839 dates a very short notice about it picked up at
Orenburg by General Gens:

Aus Kaschgar giebt es einen geraden Weg nach Kaschmir. Er beträgt 28 Tage-
reisen, geht über Klein-Tibet und Gross-Tibet, ist aber wegen der hohen und felsigen
Berge sehr beschwerlich über welche man 6 Tage zu Fusse gehen muss. (Der Armenier
Mehdi Rafailoff legte diesen Weg dennoch zu Pferde zurück.) 3

On his journey to Kabul in 1836—38 Sir Alexander Burnes had no
opportunity to get more detailed news regarding this road than he had obtained
on his previous journey. He only indirectly mentions it when saying: »Native