We now know that the Tsangpo is no other than the main upper branch of the Brahmaputra: or rather we assume it from much circumstantial evidence.
To arrive at the source we had only to know that the Kubi-tsangpo is far larger than the two others, so we had to follow its course up into the mountains, which none of my predecessors had done.
We splashed through the soaked soil, but when we encamped on the shore of the Buptsang-tsangpo the weather was much clearer.
Often and often I was told that a pass, whatever might be its especial name, was a Chang-la-Pod-la when it lay on the watershed between the inland drainage of the north and the river basin of the Tsangpo in the south.
On the north and south its boundaries are sharp and clearly defined; the northern is formed by the central lakes discovered by Nain Sing and myself, and the southern by the unheard-of Indus-tsangpo valley.
Over the Dicha-la runs the lately mentioned road to the Buptsang-tsangpo and Tabie-tsaka.
But, instead of travelling along this road, which Ryder has already laid down on his map, I wished to see the place where the Chaktak-tsangpo unites with the upper Brahmaputra.
The Sachu-tsangpo was far larger than the Buptsang when I crossed it in the rainy season in 1901.
The source of the Tage-tsangpo in the front of the Gang-lung glacier is therefore the source of the Sutlej.
In the valleys which pour their water to the My-chu, I had heard more than once of Nain Sing's Raga-tsangpo, which some Tibetans had described as quite as important as the Tsangpo itself.
Ma knew the contents of the letter, and asked if it were still my determination to follow the Raga-tsangpo upwards.
I answered: "Along the Raga-tsangpo to its source.
To the left the land is undulating, where the affluents of the Naong-tsangpo wind among softly rounded hills.
After crossing the Kesar-tsangpo we follow the right bank, upwards as far as Toa-nadsum, where we bivouac.
The Chema-yundung is drawn as the main river, while the Kubi-tsangpo is shown as an affluent.
Thus in the valley of the Tsangpo a continuous displacement of solid matter from west to east is going on.
The Bup-chu-tsangpo was at this season converted into a huge sheet of ice, but had an open water channel.
Even now the Tsangpo is an imposing stream, and we rest for a while on its bank, which our road touches for the first time.
But not even at the Bogtsang-tsangpo did anything suspicious appear.
The Shapes, it is true, though they promised to help us if we were determined on it, advised us emphatically not to go by the Tsangpo route.
It was not until 1882 that all doubt as to the identity of the Tsangpo and Brahmaputra was set aside by the survey of the native explorer A.
In the heart of Tibet we had found Arcadia--not a detached oasis, but a continuous strip of verdure, where the Tsangpo cleaves the bleak hills and desert tablelands from west to east.
To trace the course of the Tsangpo River from Tibet to its outlet into Assam has been the goal of travellers for over a century.
The Kyi Chu, the holy river of Lhasa, flows into the Tsangpo at Chushul, three miles below Chaksam ferry, where our troops crossed.
Until quite recently there was a hot controversy among geographers as to whether the Tsangpo was the main feeder of the Brahmaputra or reappeared in Burmah as the Irawaddy.
We left the Tsangpofairly well stocked with provisions.
Tsangpo (or upper course of the Brahmaputra) some 38 m.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "tsangpo" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
