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0128 Southern Tibet : vol.7
南チベット : vol.7
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doi: 10.20676/00000263
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Klaproth forgets GRUEBER and DORVILLE, though they travelled in the opposite
direction.

After a long stay in China, van de Putte returned to Lhasa, once more
crossing the Tang-la System and travelling: door seer bergagtige landen, welker
namen onze geografische kaarten niet particulariseeren.

On the back side of his little map of Tibet he has written: »Lhasa pº. Maio
1737. Dopo aver fatto il viaggio per Lhoka vedo dai luoghi passati che questa
carta è molto erronea.» Thus, he was back in May 1737. In the same year he
returned to India, where he is said to have witnessed the occupation of Delhi by
Nadir Shah ot Persia. In the letter quoted above he says: »over bovengedagte
hoofdplaats Lhasa, voorbij de oorsprongen der wijdvermaarde Ganges en Indusstroomen,
door't lustig Kasimir, Klijn Guzarat en Lahor na Hindostan.»

It seems from this passage as if he had taken his way over Manasarovar,
Ladak and Kashmir. If this be true he would be the second European who had
visited the Sacred Lake.

In 1743 he sailed from Bengal to Batavia and Malakka, and thence again
to Batavia. August 15th, 1745, he again was in Batavia, where he died on
September 27th and was burried in the Portuguese cemetery. In his last will he
determined that all his annotations should be burnt, probably because they were
not in a state to be brought in order and published by anybody except himself.
Thus his precious journal, written in Dutch and Italian, and partly on small scraps
of paper, got lost for geography. And the loss is the greater as it is clear from
the little that is left of his hand, that he was a very intelligent and learned man,
who had his eyes open in every direction and observed all he saw. The little that
remains of van de Putte's collection, annotations and maps, is still in the museum
at Middelburg.

Sir CLEMENTS MARKHAM says of him: »The premature death of this illustrious
traveller is the more to be lamented because his vast knowledge died with him....»
Speaking of the remains he adds: »There are also a few geographical notes, with
slight sketches of the form of several lakes. On the notes there are frequent
references to the journal, which has most unfortunately been destroyed. The great
Dutch traveller is said to have been considered almost as a saint by his acquaintances
in Tibet, and in the East generally, on account of the purity of his life; and he is
praised for his great proficiency in several Oriental languages.»¹

Sir HENRY YULE says: »The journal of Samuel van de Putte, a Dutchman who
in the time of the Emperor Yung-Ching reached Lhása from India, acquired the