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0437 Southern Tibet : vol.7
南チベット : vol.7
Southern Tibet : vol.7 / 437 ページ(カラー画像)

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doi: 10.20676/00000263
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It was not considered desirable to send the (Hindú) Pandits into localities inhabited
solely by a Mahomedan population, and hitherto they had been chiefly employed in sur-
veying various lines of routes between Ladakh and Yárkand, some new, others old but
requiring rectification. But while Captain Trotter was absent in Wakhán one of these
men, Krishna, was sent via Sanju to Khotan, with instructions to penetrate as far east-
wards as possible. He traversed the ancient road to China, as far as the Sorghák gold
fields, and then, returning to Keria, struck southwards along the road to Rudok, crossed
the Kuen Luen range and the great table-lands of the higher Himalayas on the western
confines of Chinese Thibet, and reached the village of Noh, which is about 20 miles to the
north of Rudok; here he was stopped by the Chinese officials and nearly turned back
again by the road he came, but eventually he was permitted to go direct to Leh by the
Pangong Lake. His work was very carefully executed, and has stood the tests, furnished
by comparing the route survey with the astronomical and trigonometrical determinations
of position most satisfactorily, and this is all the more important in the present instance,
in that large corrections have been shown to be needed in the work of 1865—66, which
has hitherto been accepted, though with some misgivings.¹

The range which, north of Leh, separates the drainage of the Indus and the
Shayok, and which in winter is crossed by the Diger-la (17,930) and in summer
by the Kardung-la (17,900), »is the well-known Kailas Range».² This is the one
which in BURRARD'S orographical system is called the Ladak Range. TROTTER
says: »After crossing the Kailás Range and entering the Shayok Valley, the traveller
has now before him the great Muz-tagh or Kárákorúm Range.» As we know now,
and as is clearly shown by Burrard, one has first to cross what Burrard calls the
Kailas Range, and which in his system runs over the Kailas peaks and then north
of the Tsangpo, — before one comes to the Great Kara-korum. On TROTTER'S
excellent map (P. LXI)³ accompanying his paper, there is one branch from the main