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0051 Southern Tibet : vol.3
南チベット : vol.3
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CHAPTER V.

D'ANVILLE.

In the narratives of the first European travellers in Tibet and even in the
diaries of the missionaries who lived for many years in Lhasa, we find nothing
concerning the high mountain ranges situated north of the Tsangpo.

But if we direct our attention to the Chinese geographers we shall find a good
deal of positive information about the labyrinth of mountains situated north of the
river. As in other parts of Asia the Chinese have also here been the forerunners
of exploration, and till not very long ago they have even provided European maps
with all that was to be found on them, so far as the country north of the upper
Tsangpo was concerned.

On the following pages I will give some extracts from the Chinese sources
together with the necessary discussions.

Let us first turn our attention to the beautiful map of D'ANVILLE, published
under the title: Carte generale du Tibet ou Bout-tan et des Pays de Kashgar et
Hami Dressée sur les Cartes et Memoires des RR PP Jesuites de la Chine et accordée
avec la situation constante de quelques Pays voisins. Par le Sᵉ d'Anville, Geographe
Ord.ʳᵉ du Roi. Avril 1733. This map was published in DU HALDE's Description
de la Chine, and in d'Anville's Nouveau Atlas de la Chine, 1737. The map which
had been drawn by the Jesuits by order of Emperor Kang Hi was engraved at
Peking, and a copy was sent to Paris and presented to the King and remained
in his private library at Versailles till the epoch of the revolution. Copies of
the same maps, translated in China, were also delivered by Father du Halde to
d'Anville, who was a famous draughtsman and the King's geographer. His business
became to make a reduction and digestion of the Chinese maps. But the copies
he got were not complete and the translator of the geographical names had not
been very careful. Therefore several mistakes entered d'Anville's maps, for which
he could not be responsible. Only the detailed original maps of Tibet, which
were inserted in du Halde's Description, have been copied by d'Anville in a
more exact way. On the great general map of Tibet, of which Pl. I is a repro-
duction, d'Anville has changed the co-ordinates for some places, and has by this, as