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0460 Southern Tibet : vol.7
南チベット : vol.7
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doi: 10.20676/00000263
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CHAPTER XXXIII.

A MYSTERIOUS TRAVELLER.

We should not quite forget an extraordinary story about a journey which
seemed to have crossed our ground between the Himalayas and Kwen-lun, and which
gave rise to a lively polemic in 1866 and the following years. It was published
and discussed by M. VENIUKOFF in the Journal of the Imperial Geographical Society
of St. Petersburg in 1861, and translated into English in two articles: The Pamir
and the Sources of the Amu-Daria and The Belors and their Country.¹ VENIUKOFF
says that just at a time when Bolor and the Highland of the Pamir were unknown,
the connecting-link had fortunately been discovered, and that two new sources of
information which mutually corroborated and amplified each other, although they had
nothing in common in regard to their compilation, had appeared.
He alluded to the Travels through Upper Asia from Kashgar, Tashbalyk,
Bolor, Badakhshan, Vokhan, Kokan, Turkestan to the Kirghiz Steppe, and back to
Cashmere, through Samarcand and Yarkand; and to the Chinese itinerary translated
by KLAPROTH in 1821, leading from Kashgar to Yarkand, Northern India, Dairim, Yab-
tuar, Badakhshan, Bolor, Vokhan, and Kokan, as far as Karatau Mountains. Veniukoff
correctly supposed that the enumeration alone of such names would excite the
curiosity of geographers, and he regarded the new sources as being of the highest
importance. The author of the Travels was obviously a German, in the service
of the East India Company, despatched in the end of the 18th or beginning of the
19th century to purchase horses for the British Army. The original account was a
magnificent manuscript in German, accompanied by 40 sketch-maps. The name of
the mysterious traveller was Georg Ludwig von — the surname had been erased.
Regarding Klaproth's itinerary, Veniukoff finds it valuable so far as the physical
details are extremely circumstantial, but the Travels he finds especially deserving
of wide publicity. And then he proceeds to give extracts about the Bolor and the
surrounding region. It would be a waste of time and space to give a short résumé