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0393	Southern Tibet : vol.2
南チベット : vol.2

river, in Lhasa. The bed of the river has more than 30 feet elevation above the
level of the city. Then follows the description of the boat for 15 or 16 persons
and how it is kept against the current by help of ropes. And he describes the
chain bridge and how it is used. Everything in the narrative points to the Tsangpo
and not to the Ki-chu, especially as he says that, the next day after the crossing of
the Tzanciù, he had the river to his right, on the way to Lhasa. As Magnaghi
says, Beligatti has confounded the Ki-chu with the Tsangpo. The Father must have
forgotten the whole situation when he took down his notes. Or, perhaps, he was
so interested in observing the hide-boats, that he never saw how the river comes
down from the west. When he afterwards continued to Lhasa he confounded the
whole situation and got into his head that the whole river came from the N.E. and
that Ki-chu was the upper part of the Tsangpo. Such a mistake may be made if
the observer is not attentive or if the weather is bad.¹

On Samuel van de Putte's sketch-map in the museum of Middelburg,
embracing a part of Hindustan north of Ganges, eastern Nepal, Sikkim, Bhutan and
a part of Southern Tibet, south of Tsangpo, we find an interesting little bit of the
Tsangpo, Pl. XX. The editor, Prof. P. J. Veth, says in his text:² »On van de
Putte's map she (the Tsangpo) is only represented from Shigatse, which is situated
near the point where a tributary, called Kjanciu by van de Putte» joins her. Veth
believes this is correct, but that the river ought to come from the S.E., as is indeed
the case, and not from the south as van de Putte has it. The hydrography, so far as
it is visible on the map, is not so bad, however, for we have the F. Ciangbo from
Gigatze and eastwards beyond Rimbong,³ as well as two tributaries: the Kjanciu
(Nyang-chu) with Kjantze (Gyangtse) on its right bank, and the little river which
comes from the mountains on the west shore of the Yamdok-tso and flows W.N.W.
Shigatse is also correctly placed as compared with Tsangpo and Nyang-chu. Tingri
and Ponciu and Sakja are also rather good. His Sunkarsun may be Shikar-dzong.
As van de Putte crossed Tibet diagonally from India viâ Lhasa to Peking and back
the same way, he could not possibly know anything more of the Tsangpo than the
part he has represented on his map.

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