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0359 Southern Tibet : vol.1
南チベット : vol.1
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doi: 10.20676/00000263
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and trade, the naval achievements of a set of very clever and courageous, and — sit venia
verbo — stupid sailors, who had no interest for the country at a few leagues from the coast.

I will now say a few words about ABUL GHAZI's genealogical work on the Tar-
tars, specially on account of the accompanying maps.¹ On p. 41 of the French
edition we are told that Ogus-Chan conquered the Empire of Kitay, the City of
Dsurdsut, and the Kingdom of Tangut together with Cara-Kitay, the capital of which
is a great Town; ›this country is inhabited by people, as black as the Indians; they
live in the surroundings of Lake Möhill between Kitay and the Indies, a little on
the south‹. Behind Kitay and near the Sea Ogus-Chan came across a Chan called
Itburak. Some of the strange names in this passage are to be found on one of the
two maps in the work, which I have reproduced as Pl. XLIII.²

The source of the Indus is situated in the Imaus Mons on the very frontier of
Bucharia Minor or Eastern Turkestan. The source of the Ganges is a nameless lake
further east in the same mountain. East of the source of Ganges Tibet is shown
as situated in Desert Goby, surrounded by mountains. Between both is a ›Camp
d'un Chan tributaire au Dalay Lama‹. South of Tibet is a river Yekegoll falling
into two lakes, probably a survival of Cinhai and Coconor. South of this river is
Tangut with another tributary chief, and Barantola, and, in the southern part, Lassa
and Potala, ›Residence du Dalai Lama Grand Pontife des Callmuckes et Mongales‹.

From this arrangement one gets the impression that Tibet is represented twice
on the map, the southern one being called Tangut.³ Lassa and Potala show that
Tangut stands for Tibet Proper, and in Mongolia Tibet is indeed called Tangut.
Barantola is the Mongol name for Lhasa, and the capital therefore is marked twice.
If the northern Tibet of the map is also meant as Tibet Proper, Yekegoll may be
the Tsangpo or Tsangpo-chimbo, which, as Yike-gol, means The Great River.