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0071 Southern Tibet : vol.7
南チベット : vol.7
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doi: 10.20676/00000263
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CHAPTER V.

DIEGO D'ALMEIDA AND ANTONIO DE ANDRADE.

At another place I have discussed DIEGO D'ALMEIDA to whose journey Dr.
J. CHARPENTIER of Uppsala has kindly directed my attention.¹ It therefore would
be superfluous to enter upon him again at greather length. On the other hand I
think it is necessary to insert here the only short passage that so far is known
regarding the journey of the Portuguese traveller who seems to have been a layman
at Goa. This passage is to be found in an extremely rare book written by the
Augustine Friar, DOM ANTONIO DE GOUVEA and published at Coimbra in 1606.
It was translated into Spanish by F. MUNOZ, and finally into French by J. B. DE
GLEN.² What Gouvea has to tell regarding the journey of d'Almeida is of great
interest, for it contains a description of the first known journey to Ladak, a journey
that was accomplished before GOES had started for Central Asia. To us it is
especially interesting that Gouvea mentions Little Tibet, a Country belonging to
the Kara-korum. So far as can be judged from MONSERRATE'S excellent map and
wonderful text, the Jesuits at Goa had a much deeper knowledge of the mountains
north of India than the map-makers in Europe. On ORTELIUS' map, Persici sive
Sophorum regni typus, 1570,³ the feeders of the Indus come down from Dalanguer M.
and Naugracot mons, south of which Kashmir is situated. As Pl. III, I have here