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T. G. Montgomerie, Pundit, Report of a Route-Survey Made by Pundit, from Nepal to Lhasa, and Thence Through the Upper Valley of the Brahmaputra to Its Source, The Journal of the Royal Geographical Society of London, Vol. 38 (1868), pp. 129-219
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