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0412 Southern Tibet : vol.1
Southern Tibet : vol.1 / Page 412 (Grayscale High Resolution Image)

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It is pretty certain that the Lamas have visited the Manasarovar and Rakas-tal
and the surroundings of Kailas, as this part of the country is particularly well mapped
and, so far as I can see, much better than the rest. But they had no time to de-
cide the question of the source of the Ganges. Here they have relied upon infor-
mation supplied by natives.ยน

It is difficult to say whether the surveying Lamas or the Jesuit missionaries
or d'Anville and du Halde are responsible for the mistake about the source of the