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0570	Southern Tibet : vol.7
南チベット : vol.7

0570

Southern Tibet : vol.7

南チベット : vol.7

Stein mentions the Kara-korum which is a spur from the Mus-tagh-ata, proving
that the famous name is not a privilege of the great system of »the Black Gravel»:
After Kukyar the route enters a broad stony nullah, enclosed East and West by
low walls of conglomerate, which looked like remains of ancient moraines. Above them
to the east towered the snow-capped heights of a great spur known as Karakorum, which
projects from Muztagh-Ata southwards.
It sounds surprising, but is no doubt correct, when STEIN tells us that he saw
the Kara-korum Range in the region of the Kara-korum Pass, from Guma, which
is 148 miles away. »The snows I saw glittering far away over the dark lines of
the outer mountains evidently belonged to the main range about the Kara-korum
Passes. Distances seemed to shrink strangely when I thought that behind those
stupendous mountain ramparts lay valleys draining to the Indus.»¹

In mentioning JOHNSON and DEASY as having contributed to our knowledge
of the hydrography and orography of the regions of the Yurung-kash River, we
should not forget GROMBTCHEVSKIY and BOGDANOVITCH, though the importance
of their exploration never can be compared with that of STEIN carried out ten
years later. When Grombtchevskiy in the beginning of January 1890 came from
the S. W. and travelled to Issik-bulak, he crossed at 35 km. from that place (37 on
Stein's map) Stein's range of mighty K-peaks, and obviously passed a little to the
south of Stein's peak of 21,960 feet. Of his experiences on this journey he says:
December 29 th (old style) we traversed a very high pass, and travelled down into
the basin of the river Yurung-kash. I called the mountain range separating both rivers
the Yurung-kash Range, and the Pass the Russian. The pass is not very difficult, but
very high . . . . According to our guide lower down along the course of the frozen river
(Utlak) must needs be a hot spring, at which the water could not freeze. Searching for
water we proceeded down the gorge and, at 1 o'cl. at night, really reached a spring, after
having lost, on this march, six ponies or one fifth of those of the expedition.²

On Grombtchevskiy's map the range of snowy Kwen-lun peaks is clearly marked,
though the different peaks are not to be recognized.³

The excursion of BOGDANOVITCH 1890 from Keriya to Khotan, passing
Karangu-tagh, covers a large part of STEIN'S route. He travelled up the Kara-
kash River from Dshegetal to Tam-aghil and Koket-sai, continued to Pishe, from
where he made different excursions to Omtesha, Karangu-tagh and Nisa-darya, and
returned over Pishe to Buya and over Topecha-davan in Tekelik-tagh to Terem-
kishlak, Yangi-lenger, and to Khotan, where he met GROMBTCHEVSKIY.⁴

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