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0100 Southern Tibet : vol.3
Southern Tibet : vol.3 / Page 100 (Color Image)

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doi: 10.20676/00000263
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In the second part of the work the non-Chinese tribes in- and outside of China,
and their territories, are described. Map 15 represents the countries west of Szechuan.
The Kin-sha-kiang is supposed to have its sources in Yunnan, proving how little that
province then was known. The Nu-kiang (Salwen) and Lan-thsang-kiang (Mekong)
have also their sources in Yunnan. The map places Odon-tala as a source-lake of
the Hwangho far to the south, about the same latitude as Lhasa and makes the
Kin-sha-kiang rise in the same neighbourhood, a view which, according to Himly,
must depend upon a confusion between the Himalaya and the Kwen-lun. Map 23 of
the second part of this work represents »the Western Lands», Si-yü, Ili and Tibet,
but Himly's article does not contain anything of interest concerning this sheet.