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sciences and whose abilities he admired, to undertake the work. They began round
the great wall. The Fathers Bouvet, Régis, and Jartoux determined the situa-
tions; the two last-mentioned continued the work throughout the year 1708.¹ In
January 1709 they returned to Peking with a map 15 feet long which pleased the
Emperor so much, that he desired to have such maps of the whole of his Empire.
In May 1709, Régis, Jartoux and Fridelli drew the map of Manchuria and the
province of Chi-li which kept them busy during 1710. In 1711 Régis and Car-
doso made the map of Shan-tung. Later on Régis was assisted by Mailla and
Henderer for three more provinces. In 1715 Régis made the map of Yunnan, and
afterwards, together with Fridelli, he carried out the mapping of two other provinces.
Rémusat says that Régis did most of the work himself.² Two memoirs of Régis
are published in du Halde, namely about Korea and Tibet. But much of the
other material in du Halde is taken from Régis, although his name is not men-
tioned. Du Halde tells us how the missionaries proceeded when surveying the great
Empire, »which until now has been so little known, even to the most able geo-
graphers». But when the Jesuits began their topographical work they found earlier
Chinese maps in every province. No such maps of Tibet, however, were known to
exist, though Della Penna mentions some sort of a map in Potala, which he calls
a Tabula Chorographica.³
Tibet was not included in the work of the Jesuits. But Emperor Kang Hi
had already sent a special embassy to Tibet. Although the chief object of this
mission was a political one, namely, to try and gain the Tibetan princes for the new
Chinese policy, the ambassador, who stayed two years in Tibet, had been ordered
to have a map drawn of »all the countries which are immediately submitted to the
Grand Lama».
In 1711 the map was ready and presented to Father Régis, who was to work
it out in the same form as the maps which had been made of the Chinese provinces;
but after having examined the materials and put some questions to the surveyors,
the Father found that he had no fixed points to start from, and that distances were
simply taken from native information. He therefore declined to use the material
brought to him.⁴ But it was obvious from the material that the country was much
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