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“ I believe that its bending must be brought more to the east. 
This would agree better with the observations made by the English 
on the tributaries of the Brahmaputra. The latter cannot possibly 
be the Yarkiou-tsangbo.” 
Now observe his reasoning. 
‘ 1st. There is no doubt that the Yaro-dzangbo is the Irawadi. 
‘ 2nd. Its bending must be brought more to the east’ (i. e. to en- 
able it to be the Irawadi.) 
‘ 3rd. The Brahmaputra cannot possibly be the Tsangpo’ (i, e. 
because the Yaro-Tsanpo’s bending goes so far to the east, where 
we have just obliged it to go). 
But just let us get rid of this notion and all his information will 
fall into place, and leave little difficulty remaining. 
The Lantsang-kiang, and the Luts Kiang or Loo-kiang we are 
already familiar with on the maps. The Kuts Kiang we will admit 
to be the Shweli running into the Irawadi. We have then, he 
says not one, but several mountain ranges running from south to 
north, and we come to the river which the Thibetans call Gakbo, and 
the Chinese call Kanpoo. The Gakbo you will find, as I have said, in 
Klaproth’s map forming an imaginary junction with the Ivuts-kiang 
or Shweli. In a map of Bergliaus’s published in Perthes’s Gotha 
Hand Altas (i860) you will find it doing duty as a tributary of the 
Yaro-tsangpo. In the original authority for the Thibetan geography, 
or at least in the nearest form to the . original which is accessible to 
us and not biassed to meet theories, that is to say in D’Anville’s Atlas, 
the river is found, under its Chinese name of Kenpoo, in a position 
which identifies it either with the Hibong or with the (eastern) 
Brahmaputra. 
The mention of it by the Vicar Apostolic as the river on the banks 
of which the priests Krick and Boury were murdered identifies it 
with the latter, and this murder of two missionaries becomes thus in 
fact the basis of a geographical connection between British India and 
Thibet. For these gentlemen were murdered about the month of 
August, 1854 (as we know from the reports of the British officers 
in Upper Assam) at a village called Sime # (the Same of the Vicar 
Apostolic) near the banks of the eastern or real Brahmaputra, where 
* Tliis village is entered from native information in Wilcox’s map, dated 
many years belore the murder of the abbes. 
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