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Southern Tibet : vol.3 |
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garded as demonstrating the existence of a range to the north and Montgomerie
does not even discuss its probability, a fact that should be compared with the
beautiful results of the Tibet Frontier Commission in 1904, which, following the
same route as the Pundit, could not prove much more than he regarding the interior
of the system.
As Nain Sing had only touched the southern edge of the system, Montgomerie
desired to penetrate, through his emissaries, the interior of these mysterious mount-
ains and sent the explorer of 1871—72 to Tengri-nor. He understood that only
transverse complete crossings had any value and that latitudinal itineraries south or
north of the system were hardly worth speaking of. Therefore Nain Sing's journey
in 1873—74, during which he saw a snowy range to the south, was, in re-
lation to the Transhimalaya, not less peripheric than the journey of 1865—66. But
if he had crossed the system in any other pass than Dam-largen-la, which was al-
ready known, he would have rendered a very important service.¹
In spite of their splendid work during ten years the Pundits have only ac-
complished four crossings, namely over Jukti-la, Sarlung-la, Khalamba-la and Dam-
largen-la. Of these I know only the first from personal experience and shall later on
describe it. The second is obviously situated in the principal, water-parting range
of the Transhimalaya, although I have not been able to find any detailed description
of that itinerary, which brought one of Montgomerie's explorers from Tok-jalung
down to Manasarovar. From this journey date such names as Shiakma Khabjior
and Ruldap-tso which I could not identify at the source of the Indus, nor at Ngang-
laring-tso. But the last section of the route, as it is given on the Gazetteer map of
Kumaun and Hundes (Vol. II, Pl. XV), goes over the Sar-lung Pass and down in a
valley called Bhachong Chin leading to the north-eastern corner of Manasarovar. This
valley is identical with my Pachung which goes close east of Mount Pundi. I went up
a short distance in this valley and got convinced of the existence of a road, which was
however, used only by horse-thieves and robbers. This road runs close west to and
nearly parallel to the road I followed from Surnge-la to Tokchen. The distance
between Surnge-la and Tokchen is, as the crow flies, 21 miles, and between Sar-
lung and the shore of Manasarovar exactly the same. Thus Sarlung and Surnge-la
must be situated in the same range. I am not, however, sure whether the two
passes are not after all one and the same. If not, the distance between them must
be only one or two miles. As the range is very low in this region there may be
several passes easy to cross. But as all the rest of the native explorer's route
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