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0056 Southern Tibet : vol.2
南チベット : vol.2
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stated; but falls into the Attock, or more properly speaking, is the main stream of
that river.¹

In Gartok, Moorcroft found some black tents round the house of the »Deba
or Garpan». His description of Gartok as well as that of Daba shows that these
places have not changed in the least during 100 years. The Garpun did not
take the travellers for Europeans and does not seem to have caused them any
difficulties. He only told them not to take any other road than the usual one to
the Manasarovar, and not to stay at the place more than one or two days. Thence
they should proceed to Gangrí, Hienlung, Daba and the Niti pass. Moorcroft
tried to get permission to return by another pass than the Niti, but in vain. The
Garpun's head would be forfeited if he let them take another road than the one by
which they had come, — exactly as at the present day!

At Gartok they met merchants both from Ladak and Kashmir. Moorcroft
mentions the growing trade of Russia with Yarkand and says her agents even come
to Kashmir. The Russians themselves were said not yet to have proceeded so far
as to Ladak, but 500 or 600 Russians on horseback were reported to have visited
the fair of Gartok. If that be true, Moorcroft thinks that the Russians must
reach Gartok by another route than that of Yarkand. From Ladak it was said to
be 30 days to Yarkand where much better horses are found than in Hundes. Ladak
was said to be 10 or 12 days' journey from Gartok.²

After six days' stay in Gartok he proceeds towards the S.E., crosses a
pass and then a branch of what he calls the Satúdrá river. At Misar he bought a
good deal of wool to hide and mask his real intentions, but he also regards that
day as the epoch at which may be fixed the origin of a traffic »which is likely to
be extremely beneficial to the Honourable Company». Misar was found to be sit-
uated upon a rising ground on the left bank of a rapid stream, forming one of
the branches of the Satúdrá or Satlej. By branches he here obviously means trib-
utaries, as the brook of Misar, which only after rain may be considerably swollen,
cannot possibly be regarded as one of the sources of the river.

The next place on his route is Tirtápúri, the residence of a Lama and several
Gelums. Steep, craggy, limestone rocks in a state of decomposition overhang it. At
Tirtapuri he was told that immediately at the foot of the rock, on which the monastery
is built there runs a very rapid stream which proceeds from a lake at the foot of the
Himálaya, called Ráwanhrád; it constituted the principal branch of the Satúdrá.³
On his map, Pl. III, he has drawn the hydrography in quite a different way. As
there was no water in the channel between the two lakes in 1812, it is of course