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0288 Southern Tibet : vol.2
南チベット : vol.2
Southern Tibet : vol.2 / 288 ページ(白黒高解像度画像)

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doi: 10.20676/00000263
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quotes a native informant who could mention even the glacier source, and Curzon
submits that this native »was a better-informed and a more competent geographer
than the host of big names who have succeeded him».

I have been led to quote this most interesting and valuable examination of
Lord Curzon, partly to prove the important part played by glaciers when the ques-
tion of head-rivers and tributaries should be considered, partly to remind of the diffi-
culties and the many different considerations which may arise when the same ques-
tion has to be settled. In the case of the Panja all the conditions speak in its favour.
In the case of the Satlej, only the length and the historical opinion make the Tage-
tsangpo the source. As to the Brahmaputra both length, volume and historical opin-
ion agree to make the Kubi-tsangpo the source. For the Indus again the length
and historical opinion are decisive. The great importance of the glacier sources,
which was so clearly pointed out already by R. Strachey and in later years by Lord
Curzon, is in full agreement with my own view and observations.