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Southern Tibet : vol.7 |
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of the boat could save their lives. After 19 days the shipwrecked men finally reached
shore at the mouth of the river Kikaja (Akyab?). By a fishing boat they were taken
in two days to Bachar-Kann (Bakargang), and to Calcutta on an English ship.
On his way from Calcutta to Kashmir he mentions the following cities: Serampur,
Tshitshru (Chandarnagar), Marshitabad or Machsutabad, Munkir (Monghyr), Asimabad
or Fatona (Patna?), Banaris (Benares), Laknahor (Lucknow), Kamber (Cownpur),
Farachabad, Mered (Meerut), Delhi, Fadifur (Fatehpur), Lahor and Norpor or Far
(Kistavar?). From Kashmir he reached the town Tibet (Leh) in 20 days, and thence
Yarkand in 40 days. His way took him over a desolate, uninhabited country, through
terrible precipices and over the highest snow mountains, but here there are no geographical
details whatever, and his narrative is as poor as Yefremoff's. According to Professor
W. W. Grigorieff Danibeg's own description of this part of his journey runs as follows:
»This journey was very annoying to me as the barrenness of the country
I was travelling through.... and the very high mountains amongst which some were
covered with ice, rose in my heart an unsupportable feeling of sorrow, and this
feeling became the more heavy as the whole country was uninhabited. And therefore,
my only wish was to travel through these regions as quick as possible. At last
one could see the town Yarkant. The luxuriant parks that surround it present to
the traveller a very agreable and consoling view.»¹
From Yarkand Danibeg was 13 days on his way to Aksu, from where he
directed his steps to Turfan and in three months to Semipalatinsk. Viâ Omsk he
finally came to Moscow. Danibeg does not say how long he stayed in every town,
but his remarkable journey took him a considerable part of his life or 18 years. When
he returned Grusia had been conquered by Russia, and it was to Tsar Alexander I
that he dedicated his work.²
I am indebted to General Stubendorff for a third letter, dated March 27, 1911,
in which he tells me that Mr. Kobeko has found a narrative of another traveller, who,
however, is not Russian and has only visited eastern Tibet. But his journey is of
interest as he, in 1792, visited Lhasa. He was of Greek extraction and belonged
to a family living in Venice, became a priest and carried during ten years the title
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