 The author lists the Khaplu district of Balti(stan).Khaplu was also very well known in the 17th and 18th century due to its close political and family ties with the royal family of the neighbouring country of Ladakh.The first European to visit Khaplu was probably Captain Claude Martin Wade (1794–1861), who mentioned "Chílú" in 1835 in a "Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal" essay.