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of the Transhimalaya. According to Dutreuil de Rhins the Pundit of 1871—72
returned from Tengri-nor to Lhasa by the same route as Huc and Gabet, viz.
Djang Talong, Loundjoub, and Lingbou. ¹

In his *Memorandum on the Results of the above Exploration*² Montgomerie
makes some interesting reflections. He begins: »I have always borne in mind the
necessity to explore the vast regions which lie to the north of the Himalayan Range,
from E. long. 83° to E. long. 93°, and I have consequently, from time to time, tried
to get more information as to this *terra incognita*; but since the Pundit made his
way from Kumaon to Lhásá, I had not till lately succeeded in getting much ad-
vance made to the north of his line of explorations, though a good deal was done
to the north of the Mánsarowar Lake. One explorer made his way from Rudok,
on the Pangkong Lake, to Thok-Jalung, and thence back to the Mánsarowar, pass-
ing quite to the east of the great Kailás peak. The same explorer subsequently
made his way to Shigatze, but he was unable to penetrate the north of the main
course of the upper Brahmaputra.»

The two lines on which Montgomerie was successful, the upper Lavar-tsangpo
in the west and the Khalamba-la in the east are separated from each other by some
460 miles *terra incognita*, as he was justified in calling it in 1875. We find from the
above quotation that although Montgomerie hardly ever spoke of any more or less
hypothetical range north of the Tsangpo, he was still thinking of this country, which
perhaps could as well be a high plateauland as one or several ranges. But he
avoided speaking at all of things which he did not know and simply kept the signi-
fication of *terra incognita*, which in 1906 could still be read in translation on the
English maps of these parts of Tibet. For even so late as in 1906 the space had
not been crossed, and these 460 miles are certainly the longest uninterrupted strip
of land in the interior of Asia which so late had not yet been interrupted by a
single itinerary.³ Two itineraries, Nain Sing in the north and Rawling-Ryder in
the south still remained to be carried out. But none of them entered an inch upon
real Transhimalaya. Only a number of peaks could be seen from a distance. The
work was peripheric, and the term *terra incognita* had to remain for another 32 years.

Montgomerie further tells us that he could not extract any more details from
the explorer's report.

He pays special attention to the numerous hot springs with water of sulphurous
smell, in some cases thrown up to 40 or 60 feet, and says they remind one of the
Geysers of Iceland. He could have added that they indicate an activity of mountain-
building forces still going on.

The Tengri-nor was found to have no outlet and it has never been represented
as having one, not even on the old Chinese maps. »The water is decidedly bitter.»

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