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Southern Tibet : vol.1 |
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better spelling of Benzelstierna: I denna Skog finnes willda Kameler, that is to say:
Wild camels live in this forest.
There is no such forest and no legend about wild camels on the Mongol orig-
inal of Renat's map; so he has added the information to his own copy. During
his visit to Stockholm in the spring of 1913 I showed to Mr. BADDELEY, who was
then studying Siberian maps at the Royal Library, Renat's map, and, amongst
other things, the legend about wild camels. In a letter dated St. Petersburg, April
29th, Mr. Baddeley writes: »I am sorry to throw doubt on the Wild camel inscrip-
tion on Renat's map, but I find on Witsen's map of 1687 about the same place
'Hier vallen veele Kamelen', = 'here occur many camels'. Of course Renat may
have known of the wild camels and purposely made 'veele' into 'wille'; but he evi-
dently knew of this field of information.»
I have looked up the place on the reproduction, IV, 4 in Remarkable Maps.
The correct spelling is: Hier vallen veel Kameelen. Mr. Baddeley's supposition be-
comes the more likely as we read at a short distance further N.W.: Hier valt veel
ceder hout, which may be supposed to be the forest of Renat. The great difference
between Witsen and Renat is, however, that the former does not indicate wild cam-
els, and does not write: Hier vallen veel wilde Kameelen, while Renat specially
points out wild camels. Renat's map is, in its general topographical situation in-
comparably superior to Witsen's. But still he may easily have got his suggestion
about the camels from Witsen, though, as he had heard of the existence of wild
camels, which was unknown to Witsen, he improved the inscription in the right di-
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