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Southern Tibet : vol.1 |
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gives of Kashmir, a luxuriant country, surrounded by snow-covered mountains, and
abundantly watered. To the east is Rebat, as he calls Tibet, with its colder climate.
He has heard that some merchants travel from India through Bengal to China, while
a shorter road goes through Kashmir and Tibet directly to Caigar or Kashgar, from
where it is easy to reach the first Chinese city.¹
In his work on Great Mogul's empire, 1631, DE LAET quotes the ancients,
specially Pliny, and calls the northern mountains Emodus.² From Belgian sources
he has heard that the Ravi, Behat and Sind take their origin in the mountains of
Cassimer and join near Multan. The province of Kabul borders, to the north, in
the direction of Corum upon Tartaria, where the river Nilab has its origin. On the
banks of this river is Attack, and below it the river joins the Indus.³
In what he says of the river Behat we remember Thomas Roe 1617, though
de Laet does not find it likely that the river should join the Ganges. The climatic
comparison between Kashmir and Tibet he has taken from Iarric. At Hardyvair is
the source of the Ganges from the rock with the cow's head. In describing the
Kara-korum road from Kashmir viâ Tibbon (Ladak) to Cascar, he has more con-
fidence in Finch, 1610, than in Xavier, 1598.⁴
When Father TRIGAULT, 1639, in his compilation on China, tells us that the
Yellow River and the Ganges both rise from the Kwen-lun, he must have used the
same source as Father Martini, who, in 1655, tells the same thing.⁵
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