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南チベット : vol.7

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Southern Tibet : vol.7

南チベット : vol.7

of 1788, we find Gomaun Mountains, Sewalick Mountains, and »Mountains covered
with Snow and Ice». A. ARROWSMITH in 1801 has Himlah Mountains covered
with Snow, and in 1804 Himmaleh Mountains which, in 1812, on MOORCROFT'S
map, is changed into Himáchal Mountains. ALEX. GERARD in 1821 has the correct
spelling: »Chain of the Hither Himalaya covered with perpetual snow», while FR.
HAMILTON two years before had written »Himadra or Himaliya Mountains the Emodus
of the Ancients». LAPIE, 1824, writes Himalaya, HUMBOLDT, 1831, Himálaya, and
BERGHAUS, 1835, Himalaya, a name that after this time has remained the only
one used on the maps, though in 1840, Major Sir WILLIAM LLOYD also used the
form Himala alternating with Himalaya.¹

In the preceding paragraph I have thus only mentioned a few of the names
which in the course of many centuries have been given by Europeans to the Hima-
layan Mountains. Though this name, Himalaya,² was famous already in the epic
songs of Ancient India, and nowadays is known by nearly every child in civilised
countries, the missionaries who penetrated into Tibet, crossing the whole system of
mountains, do not seem to have heard, at any rate do not mention it.

In the first quarter of the 17th century, several missionaries had crossed the
Himalaya into Tibet and Ladak, and one of them, GOES, even the whole world of
mountains separating India from Eastern Turkestan, though he travelled far to the
west of Tibet. For the geographers of their time it was impossible to draw out
any reasonable orography from their narratives. And if the Himalaya to these
travellers themselves remained an enigmatical and puzzling orographical formation,
one could not expect that others, who had never been in Asia, should be able to
construct the great orographical features from such insufficient material. As the
conception regarding the Himalaya, which the travellers had seen with their own
eyes, was so unclear, they could, of course, not bring home any kind of information
regarding the system farther north, the Kara-korum and Kwen-lun. It took another
hundred years until DELISLE, 1723, represented Grand Tibet as a rather extended
country between two mountain ranges. Still, if we compare Pl. XLIII and Pl. XLIV
of Vol. I with one another, we find, though both are practically the same map from
1726, the range that separates Bucharia Minor from India on the former called Imaus
Mons and on the latter, Mus Tag. On the map accompanying the Journal of LANGE,
1727, the same range north of the Indus is called Imaus Mons Mus Tag. The same
is the case with STRAHLENBERG'S map where there is only one great range between
Magni Mogolis Imperii Pars and Mugollia, or between Caschemir and Regnum Chotena,
this range being called Mus Tagk alias Imaus Mons. As I have tried to show in

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