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0205	Southern Tibet : vol.1
南チベット : vol.1

Most of the travellers to India visited only the sea ports and had nothing to
do in the northern parts of Hindostan; therefore the Indus often escaped their atten-
tion, while the more famous Ganges is remembered in their narratives. Thus for
instance, CÆSAR FREDERICKE (1563—1581), has a good deal to say of the Ganges,¹
and RALPH FITCH, who in 1583—1591 travelled to Goa, Bengal and Pegu, even
knows that the Ganges comes from the N.W., and runs eastwards to the Gulf
of Bengal after receiving many tributaries as large as the main river itself.² JAN
HUYGHEN VAN LINSCOUTEN, 1583, devotes a special chapter to Bengal and the river
Ganges, in which he says that the source of the river is unknown, and where we
believe we recognise a reference to Emperor Akbar's exploring expedition to the
source, mixed up with the old legend of the Pison of Paradise, and some classical
notion of the Ganges.³

On his journey round the world from 1586 to 1605 PEDRO TEIXEIRA visited
Goa, the capital of Portuguese India, where Linscouten, who visited many places
on both Indian peninsulas had been residing some years. In his chapter on the
›Kings of Persia‹, Teixeira has a digression on India, in which he refers to the
Indus and its affluents, and enumerates various kingdoms in the N.W. of India.
He mentions the crocodiles of the Ganges, and has heard that ›the most and best
of the rhubarb comes from Gax Ghar or Kax Ghar (Kashgar), a city of Usbek, a
province near Kethao Kothan . . .‹⁴

WILLIAM FINCH, the merchant, knew, in 1610, that Ravi is ›a goodly River
which falleth into Indus‹, and that the Ganges is three quarters of a mile broad,
receives 30 tributaries, swells over its banks after heavy rains and falls into the Gulf
of Bengal.⁵ Of Kashmir he has learnt that it is a strong city on the river Bahat,
and that the country is a goodly plain, lying on the mountains. ›This Country is
cold, subject to frosts, and great snowes, neare to Cascar, but separated with such
mountaines, that there is no passage for Caravans: yet there commeth oft-times
Musk, with Silke and other merchandize this way by men and goods . . . Upon

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