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Southern Tibet : vol.2 |
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Himálaya. Below the junction the river is called Chu-gárh. After having received
another tributary it runs nearly parallel to the course of the Sutlej. This river Chu-
gárh falls into the Tirthápúri branch of the Sutlej. He corrects Moorcroft's mistake
about the Tirthápúri branch.¹
Strachey found that the little lake near Gyanima occasionally gives off its
surplus water into the Chu-gárh. Farther on rises a range of hills concealing the
bed of the Tirthápúri Sutlej. During the rainy season the Chu-gárh was found to
be a very considerable stream, sometimes unfordable, and perhaps even equal to the
Tirthápúri river. It is the furthest eastward of the large feeders which the Sutlej
receives from the Indian Himálaya, and may be considered as one of the main
sources of that river.² He is of course perfectly correct in regarding the Chugar
as one of the sources of the Satlej, although the river cannot be called the principal
source, as will be proved in a later chapter.
Strachey observed the curious fact that some of the sources of the Satlej and
Karnali were situated very near each other and divided only by an almost level
plain. One could walk in an hour from the one to the other without ascending or
descending more than 500 feet. He finds a similar case regarding the source of
the Gartok Indus, which he also knows as Biphu-kula, and the Misar Sutlej, which
are separated only by the comparatively low pass of Jilkwá-lá,² and he thinks a third
example could be found with the Jáhnavi above Nilang, the main source of the
Ganges, yet unexplored by Englishmen.
Continuing his journey from Lámá-Choktán he went due east to Chujia-
Tol. The name of the Gurla was Momonangli in Tibetan, and he estimates the
mountain at 23,500 feet.³ The Himalaya, seen from the northern side, was found to
exhibit a much more gradual and flatter general declivity, with smoother and rounder
slopes than the vast rocky walls of the southern face, and still he is right in ob-
serving that the Himalaya terminates generally abruptly in the table-land and the
transition is well defined, as he thinks also the climate to be. As a rule he finds
the climate of the plateau land to be dry and a snowfall of three days at Gartok
was considered a most unusual circumstance.
Viâ Amlang and Jungbwa-Tol he approaches Rakas-tal. The following im-
portant passages should be quoted in full:
»I had determined to begin with Rákas Tál, because it was less known than Mánasaro-
war, though geographically more interesting, as being suspected of communication with the
Sutlej; being no resort either for pilgrimage or for Bhótia traffic, the western Lake has been
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