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0182 Southern Tibet : vol.3
南チベット : vol.3
Southern Tibet : vol.3 / 182 ページ(カラー画像)

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doi: 10.20676/00000263
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CHAPTER XV.

NAIN SING'S JOURNEY, 1865—66, ALONG THE SOUTHERN
FRONT OF TRANSHIMALAYA.

In the following chapters we have to consider the results of the Pundits' journeys
in so far as they have enlarged our knowledge of the periferic parts of the Trans-
himalayan system. ¹

The first and most important journey is the one undertaken by NAIN SING
during 1865 and 1866 and described by Captain T. G. MONTGOMERIE. ² As Nain
Sing travelled in the valley of the Tsangpo and Raga-tsangpo along the whole
length of the Central Transhimalaya, he had excellent occasion to see as much of the
southern front of the system as can be seen at all from the most deep-cut depression
between the two mighty systems. DESIDERI and FREYRE had seen the same alpine
views to the north, but in Desideri's narrative nothing is said of any mountains,
except the Kailas. If Desideri's narrative had been known and published before
Nain Sing's journey one would hardly have expected any mountains at all, perhaps
only ridges of relatively low hills, but most of the country would have seemed to be a
Gran Diserto, or a barren plateau-plain. Nain Sing's journey proved beyond doubt
that real mountains, sometimes considerable, were situated north of the Tsangpo.
This route was selected by Montgomerie because he had been informed by natives
that it was »practicable as far as the road itself was concerned«. A journey on
this road would very likely define the whole course of the Tsangpo. The only
point on the river hitherto known was the place where Turner had crossed it. »In
fact the route from the Mansa rowar lake to Lhasa was alone a capital field for
exploration.«