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Southern Tibet : vol.2 |
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T. G. Montgomerie.¹ The outlines of the lakes are not bad, although the Manasarovar
is much better than its western neighbour. The two lakes are called Lake Lang
Cho or Rakastal, and Lake Chomapang or Manasarowar. Of the affluents Some
Cho is by far the best and very correctly drawn, for Nain Sing's route went along
this river, where Thokchan is entered at its right place. Only a little bit of the
Tage-tsangpo is to be seen, but nothing of its upper valley which is so important
as containing the real and single watershed between the Satlej and the Brahmaputra.
South and S. E. of the Manasarovar Gur La is drawn, not as a peak, but as a range,
which does not at all correspond to the real configuration of the orography. The
range north of the two lakes is much better, but it is a mistake to place Kailas
Parbat on this range, instead of south of it.² I believe Nain Sing is one of the few
travellers who have given the real and correct Tibetan name of this peak, calling it
Garingboche, although the spelling is wrong, for it should be Kang-rinpoche. He
has also the name Gang-rhi, which, under the form of Gangri, has been the most
commonly used in Europe.
Between the two lakes there is no sign of a channel, which, however, does not
prove anything, for Nain Sing never went down so far. The Satlej is called Longjon
Khamba and drawn with a dotted line. Only the uppermost part of the river, where
it leaves the N. W. corner of Rakas-tal, is drawn in full. And this is just the part
where Nain Sing's route crossed the river. From this one gets the false impression
that there must have been a small effluence.³
Already after his first paper Montgomerie had expressed the following wish:
'I am trying to extend the explorations northward into the great blank between the
Himalayas, Russia, and China Proper; and some day I hope to get a route carried down
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