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Southern Tibet : vol.1 |
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knows that Samarkand is not far from the Caspian Sea.¹ This compression of the
continent has, of course, nothing to do with the Lago de Chiamay.
As a rule the travellers avoid as much as possible mentioning the lake, of
which nobody except Barros had ever heard. And if they mention it in connection
with the Indo-Chinese rivers it is always with the same words as in the first narra-
tive. The original work of MANDELSLO, 1658, keeps silence, while the French edi-
tion, 1727, has taken the lake to grace. WALTER SCHOUTEN, who travelled 1658
to 1665, has found that Arakan, Pegu and Bengal were crossed by a great number
of rivers. »Ganges and the great river of Aracan are, by way of branches, joint at
several points.² He does not say which the latter river is nor from where it comes,
but as no other river but the Brahmaputra joins the Ganges, this river must be
meant. Further he says: »The Dutch ships, & those of Merchants from other nations.
enter usually on the great river that is called Menam, & which goes out of a great
lake or an interior Sea called Chiammai, which is at more than two hundred leagues
northward, — & that flows southwards, traversing the Kingdom of Siam for reaching
the sea of this same name.³ Menam is the only river for which he takes the re-
sponsibility of its starting from Chiamay. He has probably seen the Brahmaputra
but has nothing to say of its source: »Afterwards we saw the great river of Calcula,
which comes also from the East from the Kingdom of Aracan. Here the river
Ganges begins to get more narrow.⁴ He is far from clear, but a river joining the
Ganges, and coming from the east can only be the Brahmaputra, the Caor river of
Gastaldi.
NICOLOSI, 1660, follows Sanson rather closely, though he has managed to
complicate the rivers of the Burmese Mesopotamia a little more. In the text of the
gigantic Geographie Blaviane Vol. XI, 1663, an honourable attention is paid to our
lake, but there is nothing new, it is word for word the same story which was told
by Barros.²
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