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0208	Southern Tibet : vol.3
南チベット : vol.3

The vast snowy range is not, as Markham believed, a western continuation
of the Nien-chen-tang-la and cannot, therefore, alone, be called the northern Hima-
laya, as no range of the southern Himalaya, alone, can be called southern Himalaya.
Only when the whole system is regarded as a whole, can it be called the northern
Himalaya. The ranges Nain Sing has seen from his route are only a part of the
system, situated north of the western continuation of the Nien-chen-tang-la which is
the back-bone of this eastern section of the Transhimalaya.

In the discussion which took place after Trotter's paper had been read, and
which, in spite of Sir Henry Yule's presence, was far from important, Trel.
Saunders said: »no one who had studied Himalayan geography could fail to feel
grateful for the two vertical sections across the mountains down to the Tsangpo, by
Pundit Nain Sing, one of which was described in the paper. Those sections had
thrown a general light on the whole subject«.¹

How very right and how different from the view that it should be sufficient
to see a landscape from a distance to draw a tolerable map of it. He does not
say a word of the western continuation of »the range«, he only talks of the two
transverse crossings, which had been accomplished in 1871—72. He takes, how-
ever, the subject too easily when he says that these two sections have thrown a
general light on the whole of these mountains. His starting point was critically and
scientifically correct, but his conclusions wrong when he believed that the system
was built on the same pattern the whole way, namely, as on the crossings over
Khalamba-la and Dam-largen-la.

If in the discussion in the Royal Geographical Society, on May 14th 1877, Nain
Sing was not fully appreciated, he had a sort of revenge in the discussion after
my paper, on Febr. 23rd, 1909. Sir Henry Trotter, the great and noble protector and
able collaborator of the Pundit, said: »that Nain Sing in his passage through the
lake district, fixed the position of numerous snowy peaks to the south of his route
for a distance of several hundred miles; many of these correspond well with Sven
Hedin's work«.² There are, however, only two peaks, which I am able to identify,
namely, the Shakangsham and the Targo-gangri. As I cross or approach the Pundit's
route only near Dangra-yum-tso and Ngangtse-tso, I can, so far as Transhimalaya
is concerned, only speak of this section of his route, not of sections farther west
which do not belong to Transhimalaya, and not of the itinerary eastwards to Tengri-
nor where I have not been. But for the section in question I cannot identify any
other peak than Targo-gangri.³

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