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Southern Tibet : vol.2 |
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EUROPEAN SPECULATION UP TO THE MIDDLE OF THE
LAST CENTURY.
Now we come to the epoch of confusion introduced by Europeans into the
clear and correct hydrography given by the orientals.
FRANCIS HAMILTON had not the slightest doubt about the Brahmaputra of
Assam being the same river as the Tsangpo of Tibet. He does not even call the
river Tsangpo, but uses the name Brahmaputra the whole way up. And he has
heard that borax and salt are brought from a lake situated almost north of Kat-
mandu, ›about fifteen days journey beyond the Brahmaputra‹, by which lake the
Tabie-tsaka may have been meant. But he is wise enough not to say anything
about the source of the Brahmaputra.¹
In LLOYD's and GERARD's book the situation of the source is not given in
any precise way, but in its general form it is correct: ›The Brahmapootur is named
Tamjoo Khampa, or Erechoomboo, and one of its streams takes its rise to the south-
east of Mansarowar.‹² Indeed two of its streams take their rise S.E. of the lake:
Chema-yundung and Kubi-tsangpo.
At another place³ Gerard relates that the upper Brahmaputra is said to be
greater than the Indus and is called Tamjoo, Damchoo,⁴ or Erechumboo. ›One
stream, which is reckoned the principal, rises S.E. of Mansurowur, and there are
others from the eastward; this agrees very well with the accounts of the Lamas,
who describe the Brahmapootra as issuing from the eastern side of Mont Kentaise . . .
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