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0314 Southern Tibet : vol.3
南チベット : vol.3
Southern Tibet : vol.3 / 314 ページ(カラー画像)

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that such names would be generally approved: both these men were famous explorers, and
both were Mongolians (with Hindu names). Nain Singh was the first explorer to see the long
line of snow mountains in Central Tibet. He saw them from the north. If the northern range
of the Hedin mountains were called the Nain Singh range, the name would be accepted and
would be regarded as a generous recognition of an Asiatic.a

The wishes and principles of the Survey of India regarding new names have
to be respected by everybody, even by foreign travellers and geographers. Therefore
the proposals of Herr Habenicht and myself lose all their force and have no
more to be considered. In the part of this work where I describe my own disco-
veries north of the Tsangpo I use some names for distinguishing different ranges
from each other. But I point out that these names must be regarded only as pro-
visional, and may, in future, be substituted by others, when these, now hardly
accessible regions, are put under the dominion and observation of surveyors
from India.

The Survey of India made objections to my proposed name Transhimalaya.
Their reasons were not sufficient nor persuading, as Lord Curzon says, and I quite
agree with him. I regarded the name not only as a very correct and descriptive
one from geographical point of view, but also as a monument over the historical
development of exploration in the Trans-Himalayan regions, as they have been
called since many decennia. And Transhimalaya is meant to be the title of the moun-
tain system par préférence which is situated in the Transhimalayan regions.¹

Colonel Burrard has proposed the names of Nain Sing and Krishna for Tibet
mountains. I hope this proposal will be gladly accepted by all geographers. I am
not in the position to say to which range Krishna's name should be given, for he
has explored regions far east of mine. As to Nain Sing's name there is no doubt.
It should, as Burrard proposes, be given to the mountain-system in Central Tibet,
which is situated north of Transhimalaya.²