310 A MYSTERIOUS TRAVELLER.
would be useless to try to explain or excuse this miserable map. But it should be remembered that it was published in 1861, several years after THOMSON'S journey to the Kara-korum Pass, — if the map-maker did not believe in MIR IZZET ULLAH'S Journey across all three mountain systems. And a few years before had been published the narrative of the SCHLAGINTWEITS who had crossed the Kara-korum and Kwen-lun and reached Eastern Turkestan. All this seems to have been completely unknown to M. Veniukoff, who had greater confidence in the mysterious traveller and his curious geography.
Comparing this little map with the one reproduced in Petermanns Mitteilungen, 1861 =, Tab. 10, we find resemblance in great outlines, but considerable discrepancies in detail.
I Das Bolor-Gebirge und die Quellen des Amu-Maria. Original-Zeichnung von Mich. de Venukoff... .
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