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0505 Southern Tibet : vol.7
南チベット : vol.7
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CHAPTER XXXVII.

EDUARD SUESS.

In 1883 Colonel H. H. Godwin-Austen made an attempt to classify the Tibetan
mountain ranges.¹ He separates the great Central Asian chain into five principal
divisions, with some minor subdivisions, viz.: 1. The main axis or Central Asian chain,
Kuenlun, 2. Trans-Himalaya, 3. Himalaya, 4. Outer or Lower Himalaya, and 5. Sub-
Himalaya.²

The name Himalaya, he says, should certainly never be applied to the mountains
north of the Upper Indus. »For this north-west, Trans-Indus part of the Asian chain
we have the wellknown name Mustagh, so far as the head of the Gilgit valley; the
Hindu Kush being an excellent term now in common use for its extension to the
Afghan country.»

Godwin-Austen's Trans-Himalaya covers, as I have said before, only a small
portion of my Transhimalaya. He has a feeling of great uncertainty regarding the
mountains north of the Tsangpo. »In our present state of ignorance as to the com-
position of the chain eastward from the source of the Sutlej, we cannot attempt to
lay down there any axis lines of original elevation.»

Regarding the names Mustagh and Kara-korum, Godwin-Austen expresses his
views thus: »I have adopted the term Mustagh as one wellknown to the people on
both sides of the range, and better known than Karakoram, applied by them to the
pass of that name. The Karakoram pass also lies on an axis of elevation further
to the north and intermediate between the Mustagh and Kuenlun.»

Clearer and more positively than anybody before him, Godwin-Austen fixes
the position of the Mustagh axis, or, as we prefer to say, that of the Great Kara-
korum. According to him it commences near Kila Panza in Wakhan, and stretches
by the Baroghil and Kerambar Passes to the high peaks dominating the Hunza