1848.] Narrative of a Journey to Cho Lagan, fyc. 551 



I have no opportunity at present for tracing in detail the agreement 

 or discrepancy between our several statements where we touch upon the 

 same points : but I think I may say generally that my rude oral infor- 

 mation is in the whole well corroborated by the literary investigations 

 of the learned Hungarian. 



My chief mistake appears to have been is assigning the eastern Tibe- 

 tans of Kham national existence too independent of their common 

 country, Bod, and perhaps a geographical extension too far to the 

 north- westward. In the tribe of Brukpa, vulgo Dakpa, mentioned by 

 Csoma de Koros, I recognize the inhabitants of the Jang Thang, north 

 and east from Gartokh, the country of the Salt and Borax fields, and 

 of the Gold Mines. 



I have availed myself of Csoma Koros' s article to insert the Tibetan 

 name of Tise in my map, over the Peak of Kailas, as also to correct 

 my Kam and Lo, to Kham and Lho ; I had omitted the aspirates of 

 the initial consonants in these names, because they were by no means 

 clear in the pronunciation of my informants. 



Other of my Tibetan names would require correction to agree with 

 the orthography of Csomo Koros, but it is as well to leave them unal- 

 tered, as their present form indicates the popular pronunciation current 

 on the frontier of the British Himalayan provinces, Kumaon and Gurh- 

 wal, to which locality both my map and journal have particular 

 reference. 



