SERINDIA MAPS - STEIN

These are photos made from the original maps in Volume V of Serindia, Aurel Stein's report on his Second Expedition into Chinese Turkestan.

The southern part of map sheet # 43 Kapa - The caravan route between Surghak on the west toward map sheet 47 to the east follows valleys in the mountains south of the desert. This is the southern of the two west-east caravan routes from Khotan to Tun Huang. Stein noted that gold was still being found at issolated places.