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is not a rival of Prshevalskiy in the discovery of Lop-nor. For if Renat ever was at
Lop-nor, it was at the old, Chinese lake, while Prshevalskiy discovered the southern,
Kara-koshun, 110 years after the journeys of d'Espinha, d'Arocha and Hallerstein.
Even before the journeys of these missionaries, DE GUIGNES had, from Chinese
sources, told Europe some important truths about the geography of Lop-nor and
its rivers.¹ He speaks of two or three rivers rising in the »mountains to the west»:
L'une, soit que le terrein n'ait pas assez de pente, soit que les sables accumu-
lés en empêchent le cours, s'arrête & se perd au milieu du dessert. Les deux autres
vont plus loin, & après s'être réunies, elles se jettent dans un grand lac appellé
Lop, qui est situé dans la partie la plus basse de tout ce grand terrein.
The first river is Khotan-darya, the two others Yarkand- and Aksu-darya. That
Kashgar-darya is not meant can be seen by the following words:² Dans les mêmes
montagnes Tçung-ling vers Yerken il sort un grand fleuve qui va se rendre dans
celui qui part d'Aksou, l'un & l'autre se jettent dans le lac de Lop.
A new glimpse of the wonderful adventurous life of Lieutenant J. G. Renat
is given us in a very able article by SIGRID LEIJONHUFVUD about his wife BRI-
GITTA SCHERZENFELDT, who was born in southern Sweden in 1684, and thus, 26
years younger than her third husband, Renat.³ She accompanied her first husband
during the Russian campaign of Charles XII, and became a prisoner. At the fortress
of Yamishoff, where her second husband was killed, she came into Kalmuk captivity.
Here she made the acquaintance of Renat who became her third husband. She
accompanied him back to Sweden and died in Stockholm in 1736. In her »perso-
nalia»⁴ we are told that she got a very high and honoured position at the court of
the Kalmuk princesses. When one of them was to get married to a grandson of
Ayuka Khan, Mrs Renat was sent to Little Bokharia to buy all necessary equip-
ment for the wedding, which was to take place three years later. She passed two
years in Gerken or Yarkand, and as she, a woman, could travel about in the then
unknown heart of Asia, it would not be surprising if her husband, who had a still
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