| 1 | The southern route followed the lower fringes of the Taklimakan to eventually end up at the same destination. | |
| 2 | Tracing back the history of the term, this paper affirms that "Taklimakan" means "a land of diversiform -leaved poplar" or "a place full of diversiform -leaved poplar. | |
| 3 | Gulf-shaped region, open, a north side lies, west south veins heaven standing, southern is a pamirs plateau, the search for what the eastern practically unpatrolled karakoram taklamakan big desert. |