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Southern Tibet : vol.3 |
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CHAPTER IV.
ORAZIO DELLA PENNA.
The short and splendid description of Chang-tang in DELLA PENNA's memoir
on Tibet, as published by KLAPROTH, should not be missing when in the history
of exploration in Tibet, we try to approach Transhimalaya. ¹
In della Penna's description of Kamba-la and Yamdok-tso we recognise the
same observations as made by Beligatti and as used by Georgi.
³L'ultimo luogo (of the province of Tsang) verso levante si chiama Kambalà, che è nome
di un monte grande, alla falda del quale vi sono molti luoghi; e nel piano di questo monte vi
è un gran lago detto Iandro verso mezzogiorno, che ha di circuito 18 giorni di camino, ma
dentro vi sono alcune isole di monticelli. Il detto lago non ha esito alcuno almeno visibile, e
per quella parte, ove l'ho costeggiato si nell' andare, che nel venire per un giorno e mezzo di
camino non ho veduto esito vezuno, ed il simile per ogni altra parte, come mi viene certificato
da quelli medesimi che l'hanno costeggiato.²
The circumference is considerably exaggerated, but an outlet does not exist,
although there may have been one in an earlier period, probably at Yarsik and
through the valley of Rong-chu.² Waddell gives an analysis of the water³ and
says the water is slightly saline, which proves directly that 160 years are not suffic-
ient for making a lake without outlet very brackish. On the Lamas' map, which
is earlier than della Penna's statement, there is no outlet either. The difference
between Yamdok-tso and Rakas-tal is that the water of the latter has not even a
suspicion of taste. One thinks of Moorcroft's desperate search for an outlet from
the Manasarovar when one reads how della Penna searched in the same way and
heard from others that nowhere else had the Yamdok-tso any outlet. The difference
is that Moorcroft was both right and wrong but della Penna perfectly right. For
Manasarovar has a periodical outlet and Yamdok-tso none at all.
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