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Southern Tibet : vol.7 |
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the same height, which took him to the very cold region and town of Rudok in
the north. Travelling from Rudok by the kingdoms of Maranga and Tanchut, be-
longing to Tartary, he had a comfortable journey of two months to Cathay or China.
The great mistake of Kircher is that this beautiful journey was never accom-
plished by Andrade. As far as we know with certainty, he never proceeded beyond
Tsaparang. But if he had done it, as Kircher supposes, he should no doubt have
had to cross mountains of very considerable height, though not as high as the first
ones which were the Himalaya. Finally, the distance from Rudok to China could
hardly have been covered in two months.
It may be of interest to quote what a few geographers, contemporary of
Kircher or living shortly after his time, have to say of the countries north of
India. The Jesuit, CORNELIUS HAZART, just mentions the journey undertaken by
Dorville and two German Fathers with the object of finding a road overland from
Europe to China. So far as is known, Dorville had, however, only one German
Father as a fellow traveller, viz. Grueber. Hazart says:
.... Wy hebben over twee jaeren onbegrepen verstaen, dat P. Albertus Dorville
gheboren van Brussel uyt Sina ghekomen sijnde te Agra door eenen langhen, ende moeye-
lijcken wegh, met twee Duytsche Paters, om eenen wegh te vinden, door den welcken men
te lande van Europa soude konnen gheraeken in Sina, aldaer was ghestorven, in het
bywesen van vele in-ghesetene Christenen, die groote droefheydt bedreven over sijn doodt,
ter oorsaeke van sijne besondere deughden, ende opinie van heyligbeydt.¹
This was written the same year as Kircher's work was published, containing
more details on the journey of GRUEBER and DORVILLE. A year later, or 1668,
JOAN NIEVHOFF gives the frontiers of the Chinese empire thus: Inter Regna magis
borealia Samahan & Kascar desertum arenosum Samo jacet. Austrum regna Pres-
byteri Johannis, Geo, Tibet, Laos & Mien, à Sinis Sifan, id est Regni confinia dicta,
claudunt. Inde Bengala proximat & Damasios montes, per quos à Tartaris & Indis
secernitur.²
The Damasian Mountains are here regarded as a boundary between China
and Tartaria-India, which would give them a tremendous extension. Regarding the
source of the Yellow River, Nievhoff has the following information to give:
Oritur in regno Tibet & Laos, ex montibus Quenlun, unde etiam Ganges, fontes
plures quam centum habet, cujus aquae supra lacum Singcieu aestuant?.... Ortus Hoang
fluvii est inter austra montes Quenlun, quos incolae Otunlau vocitant. Aquae pluribus quam
centum fontibus scaturientes, ad superficies lacus, quem efformant, ebulliunt. Singcieu mare
dicitur: octoginta stadia quadrata occupat: ex eo aqua, canali deducta, alterum lacum
efficit, antecedenti paulo minorem.³
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