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0515 Southern Tibet : vol.7
南チベット : vol.7
Southern Tibet : vol.7 / 515 ページ(カラー画像)

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CHAPTER XXXVIII.

YOUNGHUSBAND, GROMBTCHEVSKIY, DAUVERGNE,
DUNMORE, AND OTHERS.

Amongst geographical works of the period in question dealing with our regions
and touching upon the Kara-korum System, I will mention a few of the most important.

EDWIN T. ATKINSON in his Himalayan Districts of the North-Western Pro-
vinces of India¹ has nothing new of his own, and, therefore, quotes Sir HENRY
RAWLINSON. He only mentions »the Trans-Tibetan range, also called Bolor and
Kárakoram». The different names he regards as only local and geographical dis-
tinctions, so far convenient and to be accepted.

A. H. KEANE, following HELLWALD, gives, in a concentrated form, a rather
good definition of the Kara-korum:

From the great Pamir, focus of the continental highland systems, the Himalayas
seem to break away south-eastwards in three main parallel lines — the Karakorum and
Kailas or Gangri ranges, enclosing between them the valley of the Shayok, and the Himalayas
proper, enclosing with the Gangri the Upper Indus valley. The Karakorum or northern-
most range is known as the Tsung-ling, or Muz-dagh (Ice Mountains) to the natives, who
reserve the term Karakorum to the pass of that name. Beginning at the knot of Pásht-
Khar in 74° 30′ E. long., it forms an eastern continuation of the Hindu-Kush, sweeping
round the northern frontier of Kashmir, and stretching thence in a south-easterly direction
to the neighbourhood of the sources of the Indus in Tibet. Of its eastern continuation
beyond the Chang-Chenmo Pass nothing definite is known, and it is still uncertain whether
it forms a connection with the Kailas range about the sources of the Indus and San-po
or merges gradually with the Tibetan plateau. ²

Hellwald and Keane thus identify the Kara-korum with the old Chinese Ts'ung-
ling. S. E. of Chang-chenmo they regard the prolongation of the range as unknown,
and cannot make out whether it is in connection with the Kailas Range or gradually