550 Narrative of a Journey to Cho Lagan, fyc. [Sept. 



der (from 80^ to 90^° east), and the geographical minute in this 

 latitude nearly equal to the English mile, allowing for deviations from 

 the straight line and for southing of the route from the parallel of 

 Gartokh to that of Lhassa, the whole distance must be seven or eight 

 hundred road miles, which would make the Tarjum stages average some 

 35 miles each. My map shows near 40 from Nakyu to Misar, and 

 about as much from Misar to Barka ; the route from Gartokh to Misar 

 being copied exactly from the map after Moorcroft and Hearsay, Nakyu 

 fixed by information with reference to Gartokh, and Barka by my own 

 survey. 



Angil has given me the following list of the Tarjum from Gartokh 

 as far as he knew them. 



1. Nakyu; this is only 5 miles from Gartokh. 



2. Misar ; furnished by the people of Kyunglung. 



3. Barka ; in the plain under Gangri, north of Cho Lagan ; furnish- 

 ed from Kardankhar of Pruang. 



4. Tokchin, or Samo-tokchin ; and 



5. Tandang, or Tankcham ; these two in the district of Hortol, 

 and thus far in the province of Gnari. 



6. Dukshum, or Tukshum ; and 



7. Dodum ; these two in the district of Doshel or ' Tosher.' 



8. Samku. 



9. Saka or Saku ; the head-quarters of two joint Zungpun. 



10. Uksey ; the last 5 in the Zung of Saka ; and twelve more, un- 

 known, on to Lhassa. 



Digarcha is 2 or 3 Tarjum this side (west) of the capital. 



There are no fixed Tarjum establishments between Gartokh and the 

 frontier stations of the Zungpun, dispatches being forwarded on those 

 lines, Taul, i. e. gaonsare, from village to village, or Bung to Dung, 

 or by single messengers. 



Postscript, 25 th July, 1847. 



The above journal had left my hands and was past revision long be- 

 fore I saw for the first time the valuable notice of Csoma Koros on 

 Tibetan Geography (Article I. No. 4, Asiatic Society's Journal for 

 April, 1832), as also Jos. Cunningham's Article on Kunawar, &c. in 

 the Asiatic Society's Journal (Vol. XIII. p. 172 et seq.) containing 

 much accurate information. 



