The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-05-09
THE YSANG 20.
IT. IS THE HIGHEST OF ALI NAYI-
 GABLE STREAMS,
Aud its Outlet is Not Definitely Knoyy1

Aud its Outlet Is Not Definitely Known.
 The TsangPo is in several respects the most remarkable river in the world. It is the highest of all navigable streams, flowing for nearly a thousand miles at an elevation of from eleven to fourteen thousand feet During the
 greater part of it's course its current is
 sluggish, but for a hundred miles or
 more the mighty river in it's descent to | the coast plain, runs with the speed of l a mountain torrent. Though .one of
 the largest of Central Asian streams, it ] has never been followed from it's source
 to it's mouth, and until recently it was
 doubtful of which of two we'll known
 rivers it was the head waters. The at-
 tempts to solve it's mysteries have been
 attended with an almost unparalleled
 heroism, endurance, steadfastness and self-sacrifice. For the principal eX- plorers of the Tsang-Po have been an- l imated, not as those who sought the l fountain spring of the Nile, by the hope
 of the worlds applause at their success that was denied them-but for sim jle daily wage and the consciousness of loyalty to duty.
 The physical history of the Tsang-Po is briefly this: It rises in the extreme southwestern corner of Thibet, close to the sources of the Ganges, the Indus and its great aflluent, the Sutlej, at a height of nearly fifteen thousand feet
 Receiving the drainage of the slopes of
 the Himalayas and of a little known
 Thibetan range running parallel with
 these mountains, it soon becomes stream wide and deep enough to be nav igable. There is a considerable boat traffic upon it, at an elevation but little below the summit of Mont Blanc. It flows due east for some eight hundred miles, receiving numerous large tribu- taries from both south and north, and when near Lhasa it is at low water, nearly a third of mile wide and twen- ty feet deep; in flood, two miles wide and of unknown depth. In longitude ninety-four degrees east it makes a sharp bend to the south and passes through the Himalayas in course known only to the savages who dwell 1 upon it's precipitous banks.
 When last seen by an explorer it is at a height of from eight to eleven thou sand feet, but when 1t emerges in As | sam it is only four hundred feet above | sea level From this point it pursues it's sluggish way for another eight hun dred miles as the Brahmaputra to the | Ganges and the Bay of Bengal. There | has been long controversy, into the | details of which it is not necessary to | enter, as to whether the Irawadi or the is the continuation of the Tsang-Po. Though there has been as yet no direct evidence--the last expedi- ent of throwing in marked logs in Thi- bet having failed-the general consen sus of scientific opinion is in favor of theBrahmaputra, and the latest Eng fish gazetteer describes it under this 1ame
 It is hardly to be expected that pure science will be much benefited by the fitting of the veil which hangs over this part of the rivers course. But there ,an be little doubt that 1t hides scenes If magnificent beauty and grandeur which Twill thrill the expectant world lnd give it new and nobler conceptions # the sublimity of nature.-National Geographic Magazine.