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0086	Southern Tibet : vol.3
南チベット : vol.3

Lanc pou L., which on the Chinese map is called Langbou and placed at the
southern foot of Mt Lang bou ri. But this lake and mountain are situated in a
part of the country which is north of my routes.

Excepting the northern tributaries of the Tsangpo, spoken of above,¹ the rest
of the country north of the Tsangpo is a great confusion where it is difficult to
make any identifications, and where, if this is possible, the Chinese representation
has not the least resemblance to the reality. This is particularly the case with
the western basin of Tengri-nor and with the course of Tarkou tchou of which
I have spoken in connection with Klaproth's map. Here, indeed, a river enters the
lake and we shall return to it later on. But it is a small river. On the Chinese
map it is the largest of all north of the Tsangpo. The Pundits have crossed it
near its entrance in the lake. So has LITTLEDALE and Count DE LESDAIN.
Dutreuil de Rhins and Grenard were not far from it. But nobody has followed its
course and nobody knows from where it comes. And still it is easy to see that
the Chinese map here has caused a great confusion, where it is even impossible to
tell how such mistakes could be committed. The Chinese text says:²

¹Le Tengri nor, le plus grand lac du Thibet proprement dit, est situé à 220 li (48 milles)
au nord-ouest de Lhassa. Il a 600 li (132 milles) de largeur, environ 1 000 li (220 milles) de
circonférence; et il s'étend surtout dans le sens est et ouest. — Il reçoit, à l'est, les trois rivières
nommées, en mongol, Djakhasoutaï ou les poissonneuses, et à l'ouest, le Lou sa gol ou rivière
Sirkalosse et le Tarkou tsang po tchou qui a un cours de plusieurs centaines de li. Au nord
de cette rivière s'étend, sur une longueur de 100 li (22 milles), la chaîne du Tarkou ri qui est
couronnée de sept pics très hauts et escarpés. La source du Tarkou tchou est la rivière Po
tchou qui sort des montagnes au nord-ouest de Chigatze, coule à l'est et forme le lac Chourou
you mtso. En sortant de ce lac, elle prend le nom de Tarkou tchou, forme le lac Tang la
et suit la même direction jusqu'au Tengri-nor.»

One remarks the uncertainty of this description if compared with those of
other rivers. The Po tchou begins from a pass situated as it were in the principal
water-parting range of the Transhimalaya. Then it flows to Chourou you mtso,
leaves the lake under the name of Tarkou tchou and continues to the east, entering
a second lake called Tangla mtso, from where it has a long way straight eastwards
to Tengri-nor. Now this lake, Tangla mtso, is meant to be Dangra-tso or Dangra-
yum-tso. We have seen that Klaproth on his map had a river, Targo-tsangpo,
connecting the Shuru-tso and Dangra-yum-tso, and he goes so far as to connect the
last-mentioned with Tengri-nor. The whole representation reminds us of the extra-
ordinary hydrographical system which Nain Sing constructed west of Chargut-tso in
parts of Tibet where he had never been.

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