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Southern Tibet : vol.3 |
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Transhimalaya, simply reflected his own personal opinion, or whether it was a con-
ception he had inherited from Ritter and Humboldt. If his Transhimalaya, or as he
calls it, Nyenchhen-thangla, originated from himself and the information he could
have collected from natives, it would of course be of much greater value and in-
terest, than if it were simply an imitation of the great German geographers' maps,
for in the latter case he would only be an epigon and a new link in an old chain.
At any rate Hodgson claims an honourable place in the history of exploration in
the Transhimalaya mountains.
Brian Hodgson was born in 1800, went out to India in 1818, came to Nepal
in 1820, was Assistant Resident there from 1825 to 1833 and Resident 1833—43;
1845—58 he lived in Darjiling and returned, 1858, for good to England, where he
died 1894, after a life of restless, indefatigable and brilliant work both as a scholar,
diplomatist and politician.
His life was published two years after his death by Sir WILLIAM HUNTER.¹
It is a work of some 380 pages, written with knowledge, love and admiration. All
the innumerable articles published by Hodgson on different subjects during the course
of his long life are given in a list with titles and dates. We are told that during
his first 25 years in the Himalaya he had seldom »a staff of less than from ten to
twenty persons (often many more), of various tongues and races, employed as trans-
laters and collectors, artists, shooters, and stuffers».² Sir JOSEPH HOOKER, was mate-
rially influenced in his studies by Hodgson and speaks with the greatest admiration and
gratitude of the advantage it was to be welcomed to the Himalaya by such a man.
Hooker says: »I arrived at Darjiling in the spring of 1848. Hodgson received me
cordially, and invited me to make his house my headquarters; to share his table
and make every use of his valuable library, which was rich in works relating to the
Himalaya, Nepal, and Tibet. Thus I had the advantage, at the outset of my ex-
plorations, of the counsel and hospitality of the man who was facile princeps in
respect of knowledge of the Eastern Himalaya, its peoples, products, and natural
history.»³ Hodgson's »Nepal life would have been almost equally one of solitude
but for the society of the most intellectual of the high-caste Nepalese of the Court,
and of the learned Lamas of Kathmandu and especially of Tibet, the latter of whom
made frequent visits to him in Nepal.» In Darjiling he studied the Races of Northern
India and their languages, the physical geography of the Himalaya and Tibet, the
zoology, especially the ornithology of Sikkim.
After having spoken of Hodgson's intercourse with Humboldt, Hooker relates
the following interesting recollection: »This leads me to the subject of the Physical
Geography of the Himalaya, upon which our discussions were long and often ani-
mated, for we differed considerably in our conceptions of the structure of the chain
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