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0327	Southern Tibet : vol.2
南チベット : vol.2

they make the Brahmapootra rise S.E. of Conghe Lake, which the Koonawurees call
Koongeoo or Goongeoo; there must, however, be many heads to this river; so I
look upon the accounts of the Lamas as pretty correct.¹ Gerard corroborates the
accounts received by Mr. FRASER regarding the Indus and Brahmaputra; ‹the name
of the ridge whence the eastern branch of the latter issues, is called (by Gerard's
informants) Murgeoolma, which is said to be a prolongation of Kylas.² He further
adds: ›Tieffenthaler says the Sanpoo or Brahmapootra. issues from Mansurowur,
which accords with the western branch; and I may here add, that the natives,
speaking generally, say the sources of the above three rivers and also of the Gogra,
are at Mansurowur; by which nothing more is meant than in the vicinity of that
place. The direct road from Mapang to Lahassa, situate fifty days journey to the
S.E., lies along the bank of the Tamjoo, which is here called Erechumboo, and
is said to be almost plain and practicable by horsemen at full speed in most
places.²

This description is rather good as being based only on information. For in-
deed the principal stream, Kubi-tsangpo, rises S.E. of the Manasarovar, and there are
other feeders from the country east of the Manasarovar: Chema-yundung and Mary-
um-chu. The eastern branch of the Brahmaputra, the Maryum-chu, was said to rise
from Murgeoolma, i. e. Maryum-la. He says his information agrees with the accounts
of the Lamas who made the Brahmaputra start from the Kailas. And, for the western(?)
branch it agrees with Tieffenthaler, who made the river start from the Manasarovar.
Then he adds: the natives say the rivers begin from the Manasarovar, by which they
mean the vicinity of the place. But as a matter of fact the Lamas have not made
a single one of the sources of the Tsangpo rise from the Kailas; Tieffenthaler's view
does not accord with any real fact, and as far as the present natives are concerned,
I never heard them say that any other river than the Satlej issued from the lake.
In the essential point Gerard is right, namely, that several streams feed the upper
Tsangpo and that the principal of them is S.E. of the lake.

RITTER is quite sure that the Tsangpo is the same river as the Brahmaputra.¹
Ritter's opinion is only an extract from all that was known in his days, and
he has chiefly used the missionaries and Chinese authors. He, of course, finds the
truth, saying the great Tsangpo, otherwise called Tamja Kampa or Tamjok, has its
source in the animal mountain Tamtsiogh, in which we find a new proof that
d'Anville, only by mistake, placed the name Yarou Tsanpou at the Chema-yundung

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