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Southern Tibet : vol.3 |
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CHAPTER XVIII.
NAIN SING'S JOURNEY IN 1878–74, — AND OTHER
EXPLORATIONS.
The next journey of a native explorer is the most important of all as it takes
us through a country about which even the Chinese maps and texts kept silent.
The best and most famous of Pundits, Nain Sing was selected by Captain (now Sir
HENRY) TROTTER. In the following I will quote some important passages from
Trotter's brilliant report on Nain Sing's journey. ¹
The Pundit left Leh on July 15th, 1873, and went over Tánksé, Chágra and
Marsimik-Lá (18 420 feet) to Niágzu Rawang where he crossed the frontier of Tibet.
He followed the northern shore of Panggong-tso and reached Noh, and he was the
first to determine the eastern extension of this lake. He says the ordinary name of
the lake is Chomo Gna Laring Cho or the »Female narrow very long lake.» ² From
Noh starts the road to Khotan viâ Polu and Keriya. By the settled population farther
south the nomads in these regions were called Changpas or North-men.
Of the Tibetan plateau it is said that it extends eastward »as far as the head-
waters of the great rivers which water China, — in fact for a distance of more than
800 miles to the Bourhan Búda Mountains, where we still find a table-land (Huc,
Prshevalskiy) rising from 14 000 to 15 000 feet above the sea-level, above which
tower gigantic snow-covered mountains». At present we know that the country
cannot be called a plateau in the ordinary sense of the word, for in reality it is a
country of open, broad valleys with mountain ranges between.
The Pundit's road continues E.S.E. in a wide, open, grassy valley, 6 to 10
miles broad, bounded by low grass-covered hills. Eight days east of Noh he came
to a fresh lake, Tháchap-tso; the banks of a stream entering it from north-east,
were covered with dense forest of willow, tamarisk and other shrub. The open valley
was called »sang». A little to the south of Nain Sing's first 10 days' march from Noh is
the route of the Pundit who travelled from Rudok to Tok-jalung. East of Noh he
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