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Southern Tibet : vol.1 |
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days more took him along the mountains of Ciecialith (Brucker: the plateau of Chi-
chiklik), where he had to pass six days in the snows. Thence he travelled to Tanghe-
târ, Teng-i-tar, which belongs to Cascàr, and where there was a great river, from
which 15 days to Iaconich, perhaps Yaka-arik, as Brucker suggests. After another
5 days he was in Hiarchan, Yarkand.
From Yarkand Goës wrote a letter to his Jesuit brothers in India describing
the difficulties of his road straight across the Pamir. ¹
From Yarkand Goës visited Khotan (Cotàn or Quotan), where he was much
interested in a kind of »marble«, called Tuscè by the Chinese, and of which there
are two different sorts, one »è flumine Cotàn«, the other, of inferior quality, from a
mountain at 20 days from the capital, and called Cansangui cascio, »id est mons
lapideus«. ²
Goës returned from Khotan to Yarkand, and left this city definitely on No-
vember 14th, 1604, passing Iolci, and further, in the course of 25 days, the fol-
lowing places: Hancialix, Alceğhet, Hagabateth, Egriàr, Mesetelec, Thalec, Horma,
Thoantac, Mingieda, Capetalcòl Zilan, Sarc Guebedal, Canbasci, Aconsersèc, Ciacor,
and Acsu.
Brucker is perfectly justified in saying that it is difficult to identify these names,
which have, however, a perfect local physionomy of geographical names in the jagatai-
turki language. He identifies Capetalcol with Chaptal-kul, Zilan with Tchilan, Sarc
with Sai-arik, and Canbasci with Kumbach. The two end stations of Goës' road placed
it beyond doubt that he followed the ordinary caravan road along Yarkand-darya to
Aksu. Chilan is indeed a station on this road. ³ Sarc is not Sai-arik, for in Trigault ⁴
it stands together with the next name Guebedal, indicating one name consisting of
two words. I will show below that Sarc Guebedal is probably Sarik-abdal.
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