国立情報学研究所 - ディジタル・シルクロード・プロジェクト
『東洋文庫所蔵』貴重書デジタルアーカイブ

> > > >
カラー New!IIIFカラー高解像度 白黒高解像度 PDF   日本語 English
0522 Southern Tibet : vol.7
南チベット : vol.7
Southern Tibet : vol.7 / 522 ページ(カラー画像)

New!引用情報

doi: 10.20676/00000263
引用形式選択: Chicago | APA | Harvard | IEEE

OCR読み取り結果

configuration of the landscape, broad open plateau-valleys instead of the deep-cut valleys
he came from.

In a lecture in 1891, delivered to the Imperial Russian Geographical Society,
Captain B. L. GROMBTCHEVSKIY related how the Council of the same society had
advised him — in the case that his journey to Kafiristan should prove to be im-
possible on account of the unfavorable political situation — »to lead his expedition
to the eastern slopes of Hindu-kush and Mustagh, explore the sources of the river
Raskem-darya, the N. E. slopes of the Himalayan Range, and the boundary regions
of N. W. Tibet». As the Amir Abdurrahman Khan categorically refused the Russians
permission to approach Kafiristan, Grombtchevskiy had to content himself with the
objects proposed by the Council. He describes his friendly meeting in the mountains
with YOUNGHUSBAND. At Nia he met Colonel PIEVTSOFF.

The greatest part of his expedition falls outside of the Kara-korum regions.
Amongst his principal results he mentions a 7,200 versts survey, more than 5,000 of
which was in hitherto unknown country.

Grombtchevskiy does not enter upon the orographical problems. On his general
map to the lecture, he uses the name Kara-korum only on the pass. The range
itself he calls Mus-tagh.¹

During his expedition, Grombtchevskiy was in correspondence with the Geo-
graphical Society of St. Petersburg.

In a letter dated Shahidullah, December 10th (o. st.), 1889, Grombtchevskiy
says that the Uprang River flows from the N. E. slopes of the »Himalayan Range
(Mus-tagh = Ice Mountains)».² As the source branch of the Uprang River, he regards
the Sipar, in Kirgiz called Sari-kiy and Dangning-basha, and in Kanjut, Saltor.
This river joins, some 60 versts from the source, the river Opar (Kirgiz), or Gos
(Kanjut). Eight versts above the junction, the Sipar is formed by two branches,
the eastern one, Mai-Sur, coming from the pass Balti-Davan, the western, Mus-tagh,
coming from the pass Mus-tagh, which, two years earlier, had been crossed by Young-
husband. Both passes opened to Baltistan. At the sources of both rivers the Hima-
layan Range rises to enormous heights, surrounded with very mighty glaciers. At
the source of the river Opar (Saltor) he saw a peak reaching 27—28,000 feet, which
obviously was the famous K 2.³

Below the junction with Sipar (Saltor) and Opar (Gos), the river Uprang is
called Mus-tagh, a name which it carries some 60 versts, or to the confluence with