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0179 Southern Tibet : vol.3
南チベット : vol.3
Southern Tibet : vol.3 / 179 ページ(カラー画像)

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doi: 10.20676/00000263
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It is a pity he has not reproduced that map which may have been of a certain
value. ¹

Can it be said that the three famous Doctors, whose work in the Himalaya
belongs to the very best and most conscientious ever undertaken, have contributed
in any way to our knowledge of the mountains north of the Tsangpo? No, not in
the least. The Transhimalaya lay far beyond their reach. The few passages in their
accounts which touch upon the region at all, and which have been quoted above,
prove that they had a very vague and hypothetic conception of the country. Hooker
gives the situation in a very simple and clear way when he says that the mount-
ains north of the Tsangpo are unknown. ²

It should be remembered that these able scientists and explorers do not even
mention Hodgson's fantastical range. They had no doubt observed that Hodgson
in his geographical theories was sometimes rather superficial and that he used to
build up far-reaching generalisations from single more or less well-known facts. From
the name Tengri-nor he concluded that northern Tibet was inhabited by Turki
tribes, although the name is a Mongolian word and the lake situated rather in south-
ern than in northern Tibet. Such methods of scientific research were not sufficient,
and the learned Doctors were not willing to accept Hodgson's Nyenchhen-thànglà
range either.

Captain and Major SHERWILL travelled in Sikkim and published their experiences
in the Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal, 1853 and 1862; and Captain CHAMER
reached the northern passes in the spring 1870. Still Dr W. T. BLANFORD who
accomplished a very important zoological expedition to these parts, is right in say-
ing: »It is a curious fact that since Drs Hooker and Campbell first explored the
country in 1848—49, but one European had penetrated to the passes of Donkia