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0330 Southern Tibet : vol.2
南チベット : vol.2
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doi: 10.20676/00000263
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Sources of the Burrampooter R.», Pl. XVI, where the river is correctly shown as
taking its rise from the northern slopes of the Himalaya; it has two parallel source-
branches, each with two heads; lower down, the river is called Sanpoo. This map
has not taken the least impression from d'Anville, and therefore lacks all the good
qualities of the latter.
Of all the Europeans I have mentioned in this chapter not one had ever seen
any part of the Tsangpo, but all of them have something to tell the world about its
source. Therefore the source of the Brahmaputra has been wandering about in the most
restless way. Sometimes it has been on the slopes of the Kailas, sometimes in the
sacred lake and sometimes near or far from the Manasarovar. The only one who found
the right course was Carl Ritter, because he used the oriental authors. All the rest
have only complicated the problem and given an excellent illustration to the fact
that geographical discoveries are seldom made at home. The orientals had been to
the source of the river and therefore their description was right, as I have shown in
the chapters of Vol. I dealing with the Chinese geographers.