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Tibet and Turkestan : vol.1 |
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has been crossed at its unexplored elbow, where it turns
south, and you have seen it in the great valley north of
you, where for hundreds of miles it flows from west to
east and is known to the Tibetans as the Tsang-po.
Lhasa is in the valley — not far from the great river.
Now to complete the investiture of Tibet, run a line
northward from the west end of the last line, a little
west of Nepal's north-west corner; make it about four
hundred miles long to join the Kuen-Lun range, and you
will thus enclose Tibet, lying to the east of this last line,
with Kashmir and part of the north provinces of India
to the west of it. Thus your straight lines are, respec-
tively, 1200, 600, 1200, and 400 miles in length—about
six hundred thousand square miles in area. Every foot
of the boundary is in great mountains—on their tops or
crossing impossible gorges of rivers that flow out of
Tibet; none of those you have crossed flow inward, be-
cause Tibet is high—very high—and the rivers are seek-
ing the seas. We have crossed, in drawing the first line,
north and south, six hundred miles—the headwaters of
the Hoang-ho, the Yang-tse-Kiang, the Mekong, the
Salwin, and the Irrawaddy—these are all the great rivers
of China, Siam, and Burmah. Going eastward we have
crossed the Brahmaputra and the headwaters of the
Ganges, or its northern tributaries. Going north we
have crossed the waters of the Indus. These are all the
great rivers of India. On the northern boundaries of
Tibet we have crossed the headwaters of the Keria, the
Khotan, the Karakash, and other smaller streams — all
going to swell the Tarim or to be lost in the sands. And
the Tarim flows inconclusively into an inland lake, Lob
Nor, which has no visible connection with the sea.
And so it was also for running the boundary of Turkes-
tan and Mongolia, except for the desert streams from
Tibet, just mentioned, and the Kizil Zu near Kashgar,
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