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Southern Tibet : vol.1 |
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called »osero», and the Caspian Gwalinskoj More. Otherwise there is hardly more than
the Siba lake that is taken from Witsen. Another feeder of the Ganges comes from
the Lac Giamai, which has to its north Kabul, as capital in Zagataykabul Regnum,
a really wonderful invention! And still there is a second Cabul west of Kachemire.
The Indus, as usual, does not come from far away; some of its feeders hardly
touch the southern foot of the tremendous range which stretches from about the
source of the Ganges all the way to Ispahan, but not at all eastwards from the
Ganges. Attock, on the Indus, is situated between two considerable lakes, of which
the northern one is the Wulur lake, the southern a new revelation. The Satlej is
as always rudimentary and not easily recognisable.
Tibet Regnum falls within the catchment area of the Ganges, but Regnum
Tangut is east of the upper Ganges, and has Barantola between long rows of nom-
ads' tents and further south the legend: Woonplaats van Dalai Lama of Zeepriester,
a notion that now begins to become more familiar to Asiatic students.
The old Chiamay lacus, which is now breathing its last, appears under new
names, and east of it the draughtsman has found it more reasonable to combine
Martini's source of the Hwangho with Grueber's Koko-nor and call the result Croce
Lac, — a sort of »Saffron Lake», after the model of Martini's Croceus fluvius or
Yellow River. Ides calls it Crocum Flumen.
If Lop-nor is a wandering lake on the face of the earth, the poor city of Lop
and the Desertum Lop of Marco Polo are never allowed to get a rest on older
maps. Ever since Fra Mauro and down to Ides, it is never missing, but always
situated at a new surprising corner of the map, and always wrong. On Ides' map
we find the Desertum Lop at the uppermost course of the Irtish, and not far east
of the Caspian.¹ In Zagataykabul is Chiotan, probably Khotan, and west of it
Andeghem (Andishan), Occient (Khodjent), and Taskent.²
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