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0382 Southern Tibet : vol.7
南チベット : vol.7
Southern Tibet : vol.7 / 382 ページ(カラー画像)

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doi: 10.20676/00000263
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by some thoroughly competent observer, I see no way of avoiding the admission of
Johnson's ascent in 1865 of a peak 23,890 feet in height.»¹

In the narrative of his journey, 1906—1908, Stein returns to the question:
»Our explorations of 1900 had revealed very puzzling discrepancies between the
sketch-map illustrating Johnson's journey and the actual orography of this region....»²
He, however, now heard the name Brinjaga which actually figured in Johnson's route
sketch. He goes on saying:³

Six years before I had been greatly puzzled by the topographical features of the
sketchmap illustrating the route which Johnson claimed to have followed on his descent
to Khotan in 1865. According to this map Johnson had made his way across the Kunlun
main range by a very high pass, which he called 'Yangi diwan' (i. e, 'Yangi Dawan', the
New'), to an affluent of the Yurung-kash and thence by a second pass, designated as 'Naia
Khan Pass', to another valley joining the main river from the south close to Karanghu-
tagh. — It was true that the position assigned to the latter as well as other topographical
features were found to differ widely from the actual configuration of these valleys as revealed
by our survey, while none of the names of passes, etc., shown south of Karanghu-tagh
were known to the hill-men. No help could be got from the very meagre record published
of Johnson's remarkable feat. There was no reason to doubt the general fact of his having
crossed the Kun-lun main range from the head-waters of the Kara-kash southwards,⁴ and
it was thus a matter of considerable interest to ascertain where his actual route lay.

The great discrepancy between Johnson's map and the real topography, therefore,
only allowed conjectures. The »New Pass» of 19,500 feet by which Johnson »claimed
to have penetrated the great barrier of the Kun-lun» appeared »mysterious»
to Stein. Of his survey of the Busai valley on the north side of the Kwen-lun,
and not far from the place where Yangi-davan ought to be situated Stein says: