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0204	Southern Tibet : vol.3
南チベット : vol.3

passed several salt marshes, such as Khai Cháká and Dakdong Cháká, where salt is
broken and sold to Ladak. Chabuk was a village at 14 400, where many nomads
lived in the neighbourhood. The first 30 days led over heights of 13 700 to 15 000
feet; farther on, to Nam-tso, the country became somewhat higher. From Chabuk
ten marches to Hissik Chaka the country was uninhabited. To the S.W. is the dis-
trict of Gargethol. On the map the whole region about there is called Shankhor,
a name, as I found, known almost all over Tibet. Gegha is a place in Gargethol;
farther east the country consists of level, uninhabited plains. ¹

Beyond Mango and Kezing and to Thok Daurákpa the whole country was
uninhabited (at the beginning of September), but said to be visited by Garché-Khámpas
at certain seasons of the year. There is capital grazing, fuel and water. ²The road
lies the whole way in one of the broad open sangs . . . lying between ranges of
hills running east and west. South of the Tashi Bhup Cho, the southern range runs
off in a south-east direction, rising rapidly in height and forming a massive group
of snow-covered peaks, known as the Shyalchi Káng Jáng, the positions of several
of which were fixed by the Pundit, although at a distance of from 30 to 40 miles
south of the road.²

²From this snowy group flows north-wards a very considerable stream, the
Shyal-chu² very swollen during the high-water period. The following passage
is curious: ²This stream flows into the Tashi Bhup Lake, whose south shore is about
2 miles to the north of the Pundit's road. From the eastern end of the lake a stream
issues, whose waters are said ultimately to drain into the Chargut Lake, from which
they emerge under the name of the Nák-chu-khá River, and flow eastward to the
village of the same name, which lies on the northern road between Lhása and Pekin.
At the point where the Shyal-chu was passed by the Pundit, his road was crossed
by another track going from Manasarovar to Nák-chu-khá, which passes south of
the Tashi Bhup Lake, and then follows throughout its course the stream which
emerges from the east end of the lake and flows to the Chargut Lake and Nák-
chu-khá.²

Captain Trotter had hardly anything else to do than to accept Nain Sing's
assertion and try to make the best he could of his conjectural hydrography
which also was accepted on most European maps and kept its ground for nearly
20 years. For instance map N:o 60 in Stieler's Hand-Atlas for 1891 has ac-
cepted the river flowing from Tashi-bup-tso to Chargut-tso, where, however, it comes
to an end, probably as its eastern continuation did not agree with the discoveries
made by BONVALOT and Prince HENRY OF ORLÉANS in 1889—90. But even from
Nain Sing's own report, where it is said that the country he covered on his way

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