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Southern Tibet : vol.7 |
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Kara-korum separating the upper Shayok from the Nubra, and another separating
Nubra from the lower Shayok. Both these ranges are parallel with each other.
Of the Lingzi-tang and Aksai-chin, Trotter correctly says that they are two
different names for one thing. It should indeed be difficult to tell where the boundary
between them goes. The Chang-lung-barma Pass (19,300) was crossed by Captain
BIDDULPH on an easterly road. As to the Chang-lung-yogma Pass, which is about
the same height but a little farther east, TROTTER says it is the one used by
FORSYTH on his first mission to Yarkand. Trotter now expresses his belief that
the old Kara-korum route will always be used for trade, and so far he has
been right.¹
On the eastern road, from Noh to Polu, fairly straight north-east, KISHEN
SING'S map has the following stations: Sumzi Ling (15,570), Kiang Pass, Lugrang
(with river going south), Gang Chumik and Dong Lung (both on the same south
going river), a pass of 16,600 feet, Chumik Lakmo (ridge), Mangtza-tso (16,600),
Tashlik Kul, Dak Nak, Rikong Chumik, Yeshil Kul (16,160), a river said to be the
head of Yurung Kash, two small lakes (16,880) supposed to be the head of Keriya-darya,
Arash (16,020), Aksu, a pass of 17,290 feet, Ghubolik (16,960), Sulphur Lake, Ghu-
bolik At Pass (17,500), Sibas, Khiakde, Gulok and Polu.
In his Description of Routes between Lādakh and Turkestan, TROTTER not
only gives us excellent information about the different roads across the high moun-
tains, but also deals with morphological questions of general interest.²
The three different roads he characterizes thus: 1. The Kárákorum route with
variations (leading to Yárkand). 2. The Changchenmo route with variations (leading
to Yárkand and Khotan). 3. The Rudokh (or Changthang) route (leading to Khotan).
The first of these is subdivided into the Zamistání or winter and the Tabistání or
summer road. Both join at the Kara-korum Pass. The streams form no obstacles
in winter, but are often impassable torrents in summer. The merchants, therefore,
often prefer the winter journey. The first obstacle is the Kailas Range, »which is
said to run in one unbroken line from the source of the Indus to the junction of that
river with the Shayok». Here Trotter seems to make one continuous range of the two
which some 30 years later were called Ladak and Kailas ranges by BURRARD. For
Trotter says that this range, to the north of Leh divides the drainage of the Indus
from that of the Shayok. It is crossed by the winter pass of Digar La, whilst the
summer road crosses in the Kardong Pass. »After crossing the Kailas range and
entering the Shayok valley, the traveller has now before him the great Muz-tagh
or Kárákorum Range.» Here the frozen Shayok has to be crossed 36 times. In
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