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Southern Tibet : vol.2 |
| 南チベット : vol.2 |
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OCR読み取り結果
Moorcroft knew perfectly well the controversy or rather problem of the
lakes, for already in his days it was a geographical question of great interest. He
went to the western shore of the Manasarovar with the intention and desire to solve
the problem definitely. Here he was not a wool-merchant, but a scientific geographer,
who gave extremely important and very valuable additions to the geographical
knowledge of his time. He has not always got the credit he ought to have. But I will
prove presently, that his journey was not only the first in these regions undertaken
by a scientifically trained and critical traveller, but also that the observations he
made give us a valuable help in our attempts to reach clearness in this most inte-
resting hydrographical question.
Moorcroft must really have felt somewhat bewildered when he compared what
he saw with his own eyes with what he heard from natives. Thus HARBALLABH,
the old Pundit, reported that near the south-western corner, a river issued from the
lake which, flowing in a westerly direction, went along the Rāwanhrad, and, escaping
from its western extremity near the foot of the great mountain, formed the first
branch of the Satlej. But when Moorcroft himself, on August 5th, went up on
a hill near the shore, from where he could see most of the western shore of
the lake, he could not see any outlet, unless a projecting rock at the S.W. angle
concealed one from his view. Determined not to leave this point in doubt, he
went on foot along the shore, on August 6th, although he was weak after frequent
attacks of fever. He gives an excellent description of the N.W. shore which he
followed along the foot of the cliffs, from the face of which great heaps of red and
green granite, marble, and lime-stone had fallen.» He saw the grottoes and caves
which still exist. In the N.W. corner of the lake he went to the bay at the foot of
the hills, from the bottom of which rose a pyramidal red rock, connected with a
line or ridge of high land to the higher flats to the north, and steep towards the
south. Upon this was the house of a Lama and many Gelums, pitched in situations
which produced a romantic effect. This description of Chiu-gompa is also very
well given.
The following passage is of special importance: ¹ »Leaving this (the hill of
Chiu-gompa) and diverting my steps to the south, I went along the base of granite
rocks amongst such troublesome, rugged and slippery stones, as had interrupted my
progress in the outset, till I reached a high, level, and firm bank, which separated
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