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| Southern Tibet : vol.3 | |
| 南チベット : vol.3 |
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引用情報
DESIDERI'S DESCRIPTION OF TIBET. t I
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that he knows two different roads from Lhasa to Sining, although, of course, he is partly wrong in what he says of the population. If his notice of these roads were more detailed, it would enable us to identify the most interesting section of Grueber's and Dorville's route. For Desideri says: »da Lhasà, capitale del principal Thibet, fino a Sinim o sia Si lingh, dove finisce questo Thibet e comincia la Cina, andando per luoghi popolati, è di quattro mesi. E infatti molto mercanti, per far meglio il viaggio, in luogo di andare per luoghi popolati, vanno per l'altro deserto di tre mesi, che da Lhasà conduce a Silingh. Di tal secondo deserto di tre mesi, e del viaggio fatto in esso da due padri della Compagnia di Gesù, ne fa menzione il P. Atanasio Kircher nella sua Cina illustrata.» This points to the eastern road, and as Grueber himself does not mention the mountains he had to traverse, one could not expect that Desideri should do so. He only says that one can ride on horse-back the whole way.
Giving the boundaries of Tibet he says : I »a Nord-est e a est confina con la Cina, e con la Bassa Tartaria. A settentrione confina con luoghi aspri e deserti che sono il cammino che conduce all'alta Tartaria indipendente, e al regno di Yarkand.» This is perfectly true, and in the hard and desolate places he talks of, there are the great mountain ranges, one of which is Transhimalaya.
Again, having said that Jegaçê is the capital of the Kingdom of Zang, he continues: »L'altro regno si chiamava Uù, la cui città principale era Lhasà, e cornprendeva le provincie poste nel mezzo di questo Thibet. Un altro regno si chiamava Hor; comprendeva alcune provincie situate a nord, e il deserto di nord-est, che e cammino per andare alla Cina.»
So late as in 1879 when the second edition of MARKHAM's book was published, we find, on SAUNDERS' map, accompanying it, in the very heart of Tibet, and just north of Nain Sing's route from Leh to Lhasa, the words : Her Pa, Turkish Tribes. Nay, even on the very last edition of the Royal Geographical Society's map of Tibet, we read, north of Tong-tso and Tashi-bup-tso : Hor Province, — a monstrosity that ought to disappear from all maps. When Desideri talks of Hor he does not know that it is practically the same as the »independent High Tartaria». For the Tibetans call the Turks Hor or Horpa and the Mongolians Sok or Sokpa. There are no Turks until you come to the northern side of the Kwen-lun-mountains. But in spite of almost all modern maps, there is not a single Turk in the heart of the Tibetan plateau-land. And there is nobody else either, for the part of Tibet which is generally called Hor on our maps is not inhabited. To Desideri Hor was a kingdom including some provinces situated in the north. But we know better nowadays.
In the following extremely interesting passage he returns to the countries north of Tibet proper and shows how clear his idea was of the general extension and situation of Tibet:2
I Op. cit., p. 35. 2 Op. cit., p. 37.
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