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Title: Scottish geographical magazine
Year: 1885 (1880s)
Authors: Scottish Geographical Society Royal Scottish Geographical Society
Subjects: Geography
Publisher: Edinburgh, Royal Scottish Geographical Society
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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nd the grave everynight, and from the interior of the graSe came mysterious sounds andsighs, so that nobody dared to come near it. Several times I tried to get permission to go north to see more ofthe great range and the coiuitry north of Tsanjjo, but always in vain ;once we tried to slip over, but were stopped by Bongba men. I wroteto Lien Darin and Thang Darin hy special mail-runners. Lien replied,certainly I could take a northern road if I liked; Init I got his letterthree months too late. Thang said he could under no conditions let mego to the north-west, as both people and country are wild there. Iwonder how he knew that! It was really hard to go further andfurther west, and to leave more and more of the great unknown countryto my right, because this patch north of the upper Brahmaputra was thegreatest white patch in Asia, with only one exception, a part of theArabian desert. 180 SCOTTISH GEOGRAPHICAL MAGAZINE. The Gova of Tradum, a great .scouiidrel, Imt one of my 1»est friends
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111 Tibet, let me go south over the Tii>etun frontier and down into Nepa. JOURNEYS IN TIBET, 1906-1908. 181 The Himalayan watershed pass one crosses here ^ is only about 300 feetabove the Tsanpo, and it should be an easy matter for modern engineer-ing to dig a channel and force the upper Brahmaputra to become atributary to the Ganges, although I really do not know if northern Indiawould become happier for that—and the Tiljetans would certainly beAery angry. The next problem that interested me specially was to find the sourceof the Brahmaputra, but as I have descril)ed in a short note how this tripwas successfully carried out, I will not take up time with it now.It was a proud feeling- to stand at the three-headed source of themagnificent river that goes out in the ocean near Calcutta, Brahmas son,famous from the ancient history of India. But perhaps it was still morewonderful, some time later, to camp over night at the little rock fromwhich the Indus comes out as an alxuidant spr

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