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caused by the very high mountains surrounding this country. But if it be compared with
Tebat, i. e. Ladak, it may be said to be more temperate. Xavier's mistake comes in when
he says that the nearly endless flights and lines of wild-geese, which in the month of
May arrive at the waters of Kashmir, come from the icy mountains of the kingdom of
Ladak. Further, Xavier states that Tebet, i. e. Ladak, is situated east of Kashmir, which
is correct. His conception of Cathay and China, on the other hand, is very diffused.
He knows that the Great Wall divides and separates Tartaria from China, but when
he says that Ladak is bordering upon Kashmir in the direction of Cathay, he shows
that he has no idea of the extension of Ladak, nor of the situation of Cathay. It
therefore was very important that Goës should go out and clear up the problem.

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In the first volume of this work,¹ we have dealt with ANTONIO DE ANDRADE
so far as his relation to Lake Manasarovar is concerned. We have seen that the
purely geographical information he brought back was very meagre and that he did
not know very much of the country beyond Tsaparang. The narrative of his second
journey, which has to be mentioned in this historical account though the journey
did not touch the Kara-korum Mountains at all, is, from a geographical point of
view, even poorer than that of the first journey.

Even with the scanty geographical information he gives, Andrade, without
saying so directly, made a difference between Great Tibet and Little Tibet, the
latter called by him simply Ladak. Of the former he only visited Tsaparang and
its surroundings. He begins his description »On the return to the kingdom of
Tibet» as follows:

Vostre Paternité aura sçeu par celle que i'escriius au Pere Prouincial, ce qui se passa
en l'an 1624. lors que ie me resolus d'aller au grand Tibet (ou Royaume du Puissant
comme ils l'appellent) laissant donc tout ce que ie raconté de mon partement & de mon
retour, pour lors arriué que ie fus en la ville d'Agra, qui fut sept mois apres que i'en fus
party (car autant me fallut-il de temps pour ceste entreprise.) Les Superieurs des Indes
informez du succez de ce voyage, iugerent à propos que l'année suiuante ie retournasse
auec vn autre Pere de la Compagnie au Tibet, d'où ie les aduertirrois plus particulierement
du fruit que l'on peut tirer de ces quartiers là, afin d'y enuoyer des ouuiers au besoin
pour la plus grande gloire de Dieu. Nous partismes donc d'Agra au commencement de
Iuin, 1625, deux Peres que nous estions pour aller en ce lieu là, & bien qu'il nous falut
souffrir beaucoup & surmonter de Grandes difficultez, neantmoins elles ne furent telles que
celles du voyage precedent, entre ces trauerses celle-cy ne fut pas la moindre, que l'on
nous osta la plus grande partie de si peu que nous portions, encores que nous eussions
lettres du Roy de Mogor qui ordonnoit aux petits Roys des Montagnes, qu'ils nous don-
nassent passage libre, enfin nous arriuasmes en ces terres au mois d'Aoust.²

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