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than the Brahmaputra. In his first report Needham says: ›I marched up alongside
of the Brahmaputra the whole way from Sadiya to within sight of Rima, and I can
consequently positively assert that no river as large or anything like as large as the
Sanpo flows to the southward anywhere on this side of that place.‹¹ It is indeed
characteristic that only one year before, Mr. ROBERT GORDON, who fought so
desperately in favour of the Tsangpo-Irrawaddi, could write: ›I find that those who
take the opposite view as to the connection of the Irawadi with the Sanpo of Tibet,
continue to treat the whole of the evidence unfavorable to them, as though it were
non-existent.‹² This was the last attempt, except DUTREUIL DE RHINS³, to defend
d'Anville and Klaproth against the followers of the Capuchins and Rennell. General
J. T. WALKER was present at the meeting when Gordon's paper was read, and he
defended the right side; he said of the lecturer: ›he lays hold of whatever tells in
favour of his argument, and ignores whatever is against it.‹³

Already before this happened the German geographers had gone over to the
right side, as is seen even in the title of a very able article: ›Der grosse tibetanische
Fluss in seinem Laufe zum Brahmaputra.‹⁴ By the way it is said in this article that
Nain Sing ›travelled through the whole valley of the great Tibetan river from its sources
in the Mariamla-mountain to the neighbourhood of Lhasa‹, showing that the greatest
German authorities had got the impression that the sources were on the Maryum-la.

In the Report of 1886—87 Colonel H. C. B. TANNER has, under the general
heading: Trans-Himalayan Explorations, an article On Explorations in Bhutan
and on the Lower Sangpo river, where the narrative of the explorer K—p
(KINTHUP) a native of Sikkim, gives a certain amount of information regarding the
great river; he reached Onlet one stage from Miri Padam, near the place where the
Tsangpo emerges from the Himalayas into Assam, and therefore, as Tanner says:
›I conceive that no further doubt should remain even in the minds of the most
sceptical as to the identity of the great river of Tibet with the Dihang or Dihong,
known lower down as the Brahmaputra.‹⁵ K—p travelled in 1884.

Already in July 1880 Captain Harman had sent a Chinese Lama and K—p
from Darjeeling to Tibet. K—p had accompanied G—m—n on his journey in 1878
to Gyala Sindong, and now the object was to explore the country below that place,
and to trace the river all down to the plains of India, or failing this, to throw
marked logs into the river, which should be caught where the river debouches into
Assam. The plan could not be carried out as the Lama simply sold K—p as a

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