In the second part of the work the non-Chinese tribes in- and outside of China, and their territories, are described. Map 15 represents the countries west of Szechuan. The Kin-sha-kiang is supposed to have its sources in Yunnan, proving how little that province then was known. The Nu-kiang (Salwen) and Lan-thsang-kiang (Mekong) have also their sources in Yunnan. The map places Odon-tala as a source-lake of the Hwangho far to the south, about the same latitude as Lhasa and makes the Kin-sha-kiang rise in the same neighbourhood, a view which, according to Himly, must depend upon a confusion between the Himalaya and the Kwen-lun. Map 23 of the second part of this work represents »the Western Lands», Si-yü, Ili and Tibet, but Himly's article does not contain anything of interest concerning this sheet.
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