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0084 Southern Tibet : vol.2
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wards is so absurd, that we cannot take him seriously regarding the Satlej either.
In the appendix¹ Herbert returns again to the Maryum man, but here he calls the
lake not Matalae but Mantalai reminding one of d'Anville's Mapama Talai.

Herbert himself seems to regard Kangri ›or rather Gangri‹ as the peak from
which the four rivers rise. He heard it was 8 days' journey from Garu (Gartok) to
the Manasarovar. Maryum was said to be a village of 8 or 9 houses.² From Maryum
to Sambhunáth was 2 months' journey, the first half of the road along a plain, the
last half mountainous; several high ranges were to be crossed, and, descending from
Tage-la the first village in Nepal, is Kerung (Kirong). The first half of this road
seems to be along the Tsangpo. The Tage-la has, of course, nothing to do with
the Tage-tsangpo.³