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0210	Southern Tibet : vol.3
南チベット : vol.3

thing the Pundit saw with his own eyes is wonderfully well and correctly surveyed,
but for the country south of his route, which he only saw from a distance and where
he depended upon native information is not an improvement upon the Chinese maps.

West of Dangra-yum-tso Nain Sing has, with dotted outlines, a lake he calls
Tede Námcho, which he must have heard of on his route between Tashi-bup-tso
and Dangra-yum-tso. The situation he gives it on his map is nearly correct. The form
he gives the Dangra-yum-tso is probably wrong as it is impossible to get an idea
of it from the northern shore. He certainly exaggerates its dimensions when saying
it has a circuit of about 200 miles. On the map it is only 140 miles. He says it is
45 miles long, which may be right, whereas 25 miles broad seems to be exaggerated.
The water is slightly brackish. Kyaring-tso is 40 miles long and 8 or 12 miles
broad. It is perfectly fresh as most lakes to the east are. He says a river, Nak-chu,
was found to leave the Tengri-nor from its N.W. corner and join the great Nak Chu
Khá of Chargut-tso. He believes the drainage of all the other lakes goes to Chargut-
tso which he makes twice as large as any of them. The information he obtained about
the whole drainage caused much confusion and Trotter is quite right in saying the
evidence in its favour is not sufficiently strong to justify his entering into the subject
at length.¹

Ombo, on the northern shore of Dangra-yum-tso was the chief village of a
district called Nakchang Ombo. This and some other villages with stone huts
produce a profusion of barley. Nakchang Gomnak farther east was totally devoid
of cultivation. The Tang-Jung-tso north of Dangra-yum-tso was believed by the
Pundit to have once been connected with the latter. I cannot judge in this matter
as I passed north of Tang-jung-tso, but the Pundit may easily be right as beach-
lines of a considerable height surrounded the shore-plains south of Dangra. The
Pundit also heard of Sasik Gomba, or Sárshik-gompa as I heard it called, and gives
a good description of the Pembo sect. The whole of Nakchang was subordinate to
the two Jongpons of Senja Jong as nowdays.²

A cart might be driven all the way from Noh as far as to Ombo without any
repairs being made to the road, a statement that is much exaggerated, at least for
the passage between Tashi-bup-tso and Dangra-yum-tso. The plateau traversed was
found to be 15 000 to 16 000 feet in height. »The plain is, as a rule, confined
between mountains which run parallel to the direction of the road, but a few trans-
verse ridges of considerable elevation are crossed en route.» As a rule the drainage
tended to the north.

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