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0449 Southern Tibet : vol.7
Southern Tibet : vol.7 / Page 449 (Color Image)

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Khokan which in February of the same year, had been conquered by SKOBELEFF.
Kuropatkin says: »The importance of Kashgaria in our eyes was increased in con-
sequence of the attempts of the English to draw this country to their side so as to
incorporate it (1). in a neutral zone of countries which was to separate Russia from
India, and (2) to acquire in Kashgaria a fresh market for the sale of their manu-
factured goods.»

The geographical results of this mission were no less valuable than those of
the Forsyth Mission, and their importance highly increases if PRSHEVALSKIY'S journey
to Lop-nor, and Altin-tagh, the same year, is added — and both, no doubt, stood
in a certain relation to one another as appears from Kuropatkin's report.

As the English had surveyed Southern Pamir, the Russians surveyed the Northern.
Kuropatkin continued eastwards from Kashgar to Aksu, Korla, Kara-kash and Bagrash-
kul, and Captain SUNARGULOFF, a member of the expedition, proceeded viâ Utch-
turfan to Karakol.

The book Kuropatkin wrote on his journey contains one of the best mono-
graphs ever published on Eastern Turkestan.¹ His map, stretching from Osh to
Bagrash-kul, and from Issik-kul to a little south of Yarkand, is also very well worked
out.² It does not reach down to the regions particularily interesting us. As a matter
of curiosity it should be noticed that he calls the mountains west of Kashgar, Bus-
tagh and Mus-tau, both being our old Mustagh, or perhaps rather the Mus-tagh-ata.