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his way over the lofty passes to Rudok, and eventually, by way of Tangut, to China.› ¹
HOLDICH does not believe that Andrade ever went beyond the Manasarovar, and adds: ²
›In spite of his hitherto prominent position in the field of Asiatic geography, Antonio
de Andrade must be regarded as but a doubtful authority›, a sentence which is in-
correct and unjust. GRAHAM SANDBERG, perhaps misled by some sort of odium
theologicum, goes even so far as to say: ›The scanty yet confused account of his
journey, together with the absurd inapplicability of his exposition of their manners
and beliefs to the Tibetans as we now know them, might excuse one for pronouncing
the whole story of Andrada's visit to the country to be a fraud.› ³ Ritter, on the
other hand, pointed out that Andrade's description of at least the Hindus' religious
customs shows that they had not undergone any change during the 200 years from
Andrade to Webb and Raper.⁴
KLAPROTH had no doubt about Andrade's journey to China,⁵ though DU HALDE
has nothing to say of such a performance.⁶ Even SYLVAIN LÉVI in his admirable
work on Nepal expresses the view that Andrade should have travelled overland from
Tibet to China.⁷ In one word this view has been accepted by many geographers,
and KIRCHER, who at one place positively says that Andrade never went beyond
Rudok, at another affirms that he continued to China. In Andrade's own letters
there is not a word about a journey to China, except the gorgeous title of his letter
of 1624: The New Discovery of Great Cathay.
In his famous work China illustrata,⁸ ATHANASIUS KIRCHER ⁹ gives some
very interesting information about Andrade and south-western Tibet. From different
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