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0373 Southern Tibet : vol.1
Southern Tibet : vol.1 / Page 373 (Color Image)

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doi: 10.20676/00000263
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ar dedans les montagnes de Laüos sont lous
y les vns sont vestus de peaux vebes, & le
en tells about a war undertaken by the k
ay: Ainsi passant pays il arriva au lac de S
Chiamay, où il s'arresta vingt-vn jours, dura
aces environnées de boulevarts & de belles m
case, therefore, the Lago di Chiamay is famed
, namely Singapamor.¹

49. There are two passages which are two p
«Sian» the author says: «Ce país confine au
y de Pegu, du Nort au país de Chiamay ... L
elle & grande riviere de Menan, qui vient de m
belles murailles ...» Further he says of the d
sent, aux environs du lac Chiamay ... Ce l
n grand nombre de grandes & fameuses riviere
n, Cosmin, & autres, qui ont les mesmes inond
e lac a du costé de Leuant de grands foreste
dangereux ...» Of Pegu he says that near i
great river Amoucharat, or as it is called in P
pendant ie diray que nos Geographes se tromp
le país de Tangu, pour la mesme que celuy d
s & bien esloignées: Car celle cy vient de ce gr
ou Brama.» Finally some Peguans told him th
g of the old dynasty had several lieutenants
d lake Chiamay» and one of them was at the g
against him.

rows the size of the lake, he also gives us some pl
great forests and dangerous swamps on the east
s have their eldorados. He discusses hydrolog
rivers: Aua (Irrawaddi), Cayamo (Salwi), Me
addi), thus using two different names for one an
are only examples out of the great number of
e from the lake. He even alludes to internal n
ar the lake. He blindly and uncritically believes
n it, nor has anybody else. Very likely he is
en impressed by the maps of his time. For in S