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0162 Southern Tibet : vol.2
南チベット : vol.2
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discovery that »though the water was sweet no exit was seen: at one point on the
west the ground near the Ju monastery was low, and looked as if water had per-
haps at one time flowed through, towards the Rakas Tal lake, though it is now too
much above the lake to admit of it.»¹

Here we have a perfectly reliable statement, that in 1868 there was no com-
munication between the two lakes. But the Pundit observed the channel and saw
there had been communication before. This may have happened only the year, or
a few months before. It very much depends also on the season, at which the Pundits
were there.

Although the expressions: the Pundit, the chief Pundit, the 3rd Pundit, the
servant of the Pundit, the agent of the chief Pundit, the 1st and 2nd Pundit, cause
some confusion when we try to follow the red line of the journey, it is sure that
the »Pundit» made his way along the great road to Shigatse, where he was stopped.
»Whilst marching between the Manasarovar and Shigatse he was able to take bearings
to various peaks north and south of the road, which no doubt will add considerably
to our knowledge of the mountains on either side of that route» . . . So far as the
northern mountains were concerned this hope was never fulfilled. The return journey
touched Tradum, Liktse and Lohtod, »four or five miles south of the Himalayan
watershed». The ascent up to the watershed was found to be very slight. It could
hardly be called a pass. He is right in this, for the pass is Kore-la, which is only
some 300 feet above the Tsangpo, and which he calls Photu-la (15,080 feet).

In his report, Dehra Dun, November 1872, T. G. Montgomerie tells us that
his explorers, from the Panggong, had extended the survey-line by a traverse to Rudok,
and thence, over the very elevated plateau north of the great Aling-gangri peaks,
to the Thok-jalung gold field, passing through a succession of gold and borax fields.
From Thok-jalung the line was extended S.E. through Majin to the Shellifuk lake,
N.E. of Kailas over the most elevated plateau in the world. This portion of the outer
line had thus been connected with lake Månsarowar. Further extensions had been
made to the west and north of Lhåsa, and Montgomerie trusted eventually that a
junction would be effected between this and the portion near Selipuk and thus open
out a large portion of the geography of Central Tibet.² From this one gets the
impression of a survey to the very neighbourhood of the Nganglaring-tso though I
have not been able to find any detailed report of its results. I never heard the
name Majin near Selipuk, but it may be the same as Yumba-matsen.³