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Southern Tibet : vol.1 |
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One is lost in this stream of positive geography which has such a fascinating resemblance to the truth. Edrisi provides an indication about the sources originally used for the details he gives regarding Tibet, Bagharghar and the country of the Khizildjis: »Nous en parlerons d'après ce qu'offrent de plus certain et de plus au- thentique les livres écrits et composés sous la dictée de Turks qui, ayant traversé ces pays ou ayant habité dans leur voisinage, ont pu rapporter ce qu'ils en savaient.« But could these Turks really describe what they had seen? And were those who took down the notes not liable to misunderstandings? Such an able man as Grue- ber who saw a good deal of these countries with his own eyes hundreds of years later, could not describe them sufficiently well to make it possible for others to fol- low his routes in detail on the map. Even Abbé HUC, 700 years after Edrisi, is very vague in the most interesting portion of his journey, and still he had studied the country from autopsy, while Edrisi presents us with third or fourth hand knowledge.
It may seem audacious to try and bring his geography in accordance with our present map of Tibet, but I cannot help making a few suggestions. ²
As I have pointed out before, he very likely refers, as a rule, only to Ladak and western Tibet, or to the region which in about 1150 obeyed the king of Ladak. Ladak is even now called Tibet by the Mohammedans; and Leh is simply called Tebbet by the natives or Eastern Turkestan. Edrisi says that the great city of Tibet is the capital in the country of Tibet which is inhabited by Tibetan Turks, all of which coincides exactly with the actual state of things, remembering that the
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