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0341	Southern Tibet : vol.2
南チベット : vol.2

0341

Southern Tibet : vol.2

南チベット : vol.2

CHAPTER XXXIV.

NAIN SING.

In this chapter I shall first quote some important passages from MONTGOME-
RIE's analysis of NAIN SING's classical exploration along almost the whole of the
Tsangpo from the neighbourhood of Lhasa and up to Maryum-la. ¹

›The Pundit on his return said that the river is called by the Nari and Ladak
people the Tamjan Khamba (the horse's mouth), from its source to the junction of
the Charta Sangpo, from the latter to Janglache it is called Machang Sangpo by the
Dokthal people, and from Janglache to Lhasa it is called the Narichu Sangpo by
the Lhasa people, the latter name being given to it because the river runs from
near Nari, the country about the Mansarowar etc.› Everywhere he heard that it
went down to Hindostan.

›The river Brahmaputra was ascertained to rise in about north latitude 30¹/2,
and east longitude 82° (Pl. XIII). — The great road along which the route-survey
was carried does not follow the course of the river for the first 50 miles, but
the road was probably never much more than 10 miles north of the river. The
general direction of the river's course during the first 50 miles was, however, quite
unmistakable, owing to the gigantic range visible to the south of it, the large
glaciers which filled every ravine of that range evidently forming the sources of
the river.›

In this, both Nain Sing and Montgomerie were correct, for the Maryum-chu,
along which the great road runs, is only a tributary and the sources are in the
glaciers of the Kubi-gangri, which was visible to the south.

›The Tamjan Tarjum, in latitude 30° 21', longitude 82° 51', was the first point
of the road actually on the river. The staging-house is called Tamjan, from the

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