1923%20Memoir%20on%20Maps%20of%20Chinese%20Turkistan%20by%20Stein%20s

Sec. iii.1 S15(:ONI> EXPEDITION, IYOU-Ob 23
t~er~ightetl on tl~e glacier, resnlted in the toes of rny fe1.t being severely injured by frohtbita.
'l'lre urgency of securing st~rgical aid oblige11 tne to have nlyself carried by forced marches
to Leh which was reml~eti t~y October 12tl1 ant1 \\,here the toes of I I I ~ right foot sere
amputated. lio\r~ever, I had the satirifirctioii 01' li~ro~ving that the exploratory task8 oS thin
journey hat1 been complctc.(l.
I could leave the I~cavy caravan of antiqnes tvl~icl~ had awaited my arrival loser tlotvr~
the Kara-kicsh valley, to be bronght safely across the high pansm t~nder
Journey ncrosr
Rnrn-kornm, the care of LA1 Singb. He carried the ~dane-table survey LI;) to the
I~lclian frontier on the Kara-kora111 paus:!' and 11roved to the end, as
tl~rougl~ot~t the journey, tlie most devoted and energetic of helpers. It was to lne a special
satisfaction that the recommendation of the Surveyor General becurell for hin~ due official
recognition by tile besto\val of the title of ltai Ilahidur at the close of the jear, a~ld that
this was follo\ved some months later by the award of' the Back (;ra~~t on the part of the
Royal Creogra~~l~ical Society.
A detailed cartographical recortl of the s~crveys n~acle on this jonriiey was prepared at
the Trigonometrical Survey Ottice, then under the direction of Colonel
Q n ~ ~ Sir ~ Sidney ~ Uurrard, ~ ~ R.E., ~ in the ~ shal,e ~ of ~ an atlas ~ of ~
94 sheets, o f drawn
on tile scale of 4 m~les to I inch and eaclr extending over one degrea
of Iatitnde ant1 longitude. These sheets reprod~~cetl 1~y helio-zincography were intended
for puhlicatio~~ wit11 Strirr~lin, the Detailed ltellort on the scientific res~rlts of
my esl)etIition. Ilut the I,rel)ar;\tio~l ot this large I\-ork nas Ijot~nd to take some years owing
to the great abunda~~ce and very varied nature of the archwological discoveries, etc., and to
the need of utilizing for it also the help of nnlnerous esl,~rt collaborators. Hence a certsi~l
number of col)ies of this atlas were made available in advance by presentation in 1913 to
leading geogral,hical institutions in Europe and America and to scholars specially interested
in researches concerning tliese parts of Central Asia. This advance issue has proved all the
more justified because the p~~hlieatio~~ of Srria~lirt ha?; st~ffered considerable delay, first on
account of thr break caused in its preparation by ny third Central-Asian cxpetlition and
subsequently, after my return in l!llti, by the difficnlties arising I'ron~ the n-ar which beset
the printing and issue of those bnlky volarues.
The technical esecntion of tliese n1a.l) sheet?; considerably benefited by the comparatively
large scale and by improved ~nethotls of reproduction introduced since
Difficu'tiesbese'tiu~
map revisiou. the publication of the map slio\ving the surveys of my first journey.
But the heavy tasks awaiting me at tlie British Museum in connection
with the elaboration of the arclimological results necessitated my departure for England
immediately after mj- return from the espedition ant1 my stay there for the nest three years,
and these circumstances together with the rapid production of the maps which other
considerations demanded, made it diflicolt for me to bestow upon their details all the precise
care which I should other\vise have done. This applies in particular to tlie hill-shading, doue
by hachnring instead of the 'form lines' of the original plane-tables. Owing to the great
distance separating me fro111 the Dehra Don dramiug office my revision of tlie sheetr had
to be restricted to tlie t\vo stages of 'outline' and 'black and brown' proofs. KO examination
of the dra\~,in,os themselves having been possible in tlie first instance, tlie range of corrections
in these proofs mas necessarily limited by cons~derations of delay and expense.
~ortnuatel~ tlie difticulties just indicated did not make theniselvis felt in the case of
tlie maps illustrating my explorations of 1906-08 which with tlie kind
hIaps reprodured by
H.aeogr.society. l>ermission of tlie Surveyor General I was able to get prepared and
pnblislied by the Royal Geograpliical Society and subsequently to use
also for my Rrrins qf Dese~,t Cothr~y. They comprised a general map of the whole area over
mhich the surveys of those years extended, on the much redocecl scale of 1 : 3,000,000, and
two maps, on tlie scale of 1 : 1,000,000 showing importaut mountain regions, portions of the
K'un-lun range south of tlie Karghalik-Khotan-Keriya line and of tlie Western and Central
79 See Sheets Nos. 9. A, B. 4 ; 10. A. 7. Chiibeae Tttrkebtan and Kasstc, ffcog~~aphical Journal,
au See Note on map8 illusttsating erplo)~tioi~~ iib March, 1911, pp. 275 8qq.