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It can all be managed; you will only have to put up with a little delay, which is relatively of not much importance. The Yarou-Dzangbo-Tchou will wait for you still in the mountains of Thibet. We shall soon put in at Madeira, and you will get a ship there to take you back to Europe." "Thanks, my Lord.
There is as much to be done, and sought, and investigated, and discovered in the Cordilleras as in the mountains of Thibet." "But the course of the Yarou-Dzangbo-Tchou what about that?" "Go up the Rio Colorado instead. It is a river but little known, and its course on the map is marked out too much according to the fancy of geographers." "I know it is, my dear Lord; they have made grave mistakes.
I mean to try and succeed where Krick, the missionary so unfortunately failed in 1846; in a word, I want to follow the course of the river Yarou-Dzangbo-Tchou, which waters Thibet for a distance of 1500 kilometres, flowing along the northern base of the Himalayas, and to find out at last whether this river does not join itself to the Brahmapoutre in the northeast of As-sam.
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