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end of Hodgson's Nyenchhen-thánglá chain in some mysterious way. This range
existed, of course, only in Sir Henry's imagination, as Nyenchhen-thánglá in Hodg-
son's, although the latter had at least the authority of Chinese sources.
He concluded: »In giving every possible credit to the Pundits, we must re-
member that this was not entirely a new country. The portion from Gartok to the
north-east was entirely new; but Moorcroft and Henry Strachey had both been up
the Indus as far as Gartok. There Strachey heard of the other branch of the Indus
now discovered by the Pundits, but he was unable to penetrate into Independent
Tibet. He believed, in fact, it was quite impossible for any European traveller to
penetrate into that country.»

Sir R. MONTGOMERY said that in 1854 Lord DALHOUSIE tried to make a
road from Simla towards Gartok, with the object of opening an overland route to
China from India. It was never carried out. Only some 50 years later it was built
from Simla to the Tibetan frontier.

In 1868 Montgomerie sent a new Pundit expedition into Western Tibet to
explore the country north of Aling-gangri. If possible the exploration was to be
carried from Tok-jalung »along the upper road to the Tengri-nor Lake and thence
to Lhasa; failing that, to take the route through Majin and Shellifuk towards the
Tadum Monastery.»¹ The itinerary goes from Spiti through the upper part of Chu-
murti and Ladak to Demchok, and thence to Rudok. Then the Pundit went east-
wards through the districts of Rawung and Tingche to Dak-korkor. Several small
lakes and a large salt lake called Rawung-chaka or Phondok-tso were passed on
the way.

On his way from Rudok to Tok-jalung the Pundit saw no high peaks to the
north or east, which seemed to prove the existence of a large plain; therefore Chang-
tang. »According to modern maps this plain extends a great way east, nearly up
to the end of the Great Wall of China near the city of Sewchoo, to which place
the Chief Pundit appears to have got a rough route when in Lhasa.» The further
way goes over Chak-chaka and through Majin, a very level country. The drain-
age sloped to the east, where only comparatively low rounded hills were visible.
Passing salt- and borax lakes and travelling S.E. for nine days the party reached a
river, Chu-sangpo, so large that it cannot be forded during the summer. »This
river flows east-ward and falls into the lake called Nala-Ring-cho, or Cho-sildu, said
to be about the same size as the Mansarowar Lake; it has a small island in the
centre.» The Pundit heard that one river entered the Lake from the east and another
from the north. So far as I touched Nganglaring-tso I saw only the rivers coming
from the south and S.W. The Pundit was not permitted to follow the northern route
to Tengri-nor, but had to go S.W. to Manasarovar. He followed the Chu-sangpo,
also called Sangpo-chu nearly to its source, »crossing one very high range called

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