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landt inorienten fajl vil mijk wachfen
und wolfeil mufs fein und das nit
wunder wer man wis fy by enfs den
goldt geleich dis findt die wortt mi/ler
bartolomei florentini der aus jndien
kommen was anno 1424 und eugenio
den vierten babjl zu venedig erzelt was
er in 24 jaren in orient ge/ehen und
erfaren hat.

stood that very great quantities
must grow in the East, and it need
not be wondered that they are
worth with us as much as gold.
These are the words of Mr.
Bartolomeo of Florence, who came
out of India in 1424, and told Pope
Eugene IV. at Venice what he had
seen and experienced in twenty-four
years.

muri monies (I 46) Ghil: camuri m.; Asmirei montes,
in Kashmir.

bautisig fl.,baungs fl. (I 41 and 43) Jom and Ghil call it
Riisig fl. Bautisus flumen. This river flows through the
country of the Bautae (Bhota, i.e., Tibetans), and may be
the Upper Brahmaputra.

octocora regio (I 36), Ottorocora. Uttara Kura, a
mythical region of the Hindus, where spring is perennial.

stotoras (I 36), Ottorocoras mons, strangely mutilated.

Inner Asia.

The following information is derived exclusively from
Ptolemy's geography:—

Sacarum Situs.
(Ptolemy VI., c. 13.)

sacha regio (H 41). The Sacae are the ancestors of
the modern Kirghiz and lived in the Western Tien-shan
and the Steppes to the west.

irmaus da/ gebirg (H 38), mualis montes (H 55), pont
mantes (H 45); Imaus mons, the western Himalaya and.
the northern extension as far as the Tien-shan.

comade (H 37), Comedae, to the east of Bactriana.

bilto (H 36), Byltae, represented by the mod. Balbi on
the upper Indus, within the Himalaya.

comena (H 29) (comau of Ghil), Comari, on the
Yaxartes.

montes lapidio (H 40), Tunis lapidea, with a picture
of the tower, far away, (I 28) still known as Tash-
kurghan, " Stone Tower," on the route from Badakhshan
to Kashghar.

Scythia.
(Ptolemy VI., cc. 14 and 15.)

zithia (I 55), Scythia.

Sithia ultra ume mdtem (H 47), Scithia extra Imaum,
Chinese Turkestan.

rectoseres (H 51), Tectosaces, a tribe far to the north
of the Iaxartes.

tapiires (H 43), Tapuraei, north of the Iaxartes.

de morides (I 55), (Jom and Ghil: oehardo), occa (I 55),
orazdes (I 47), (Ghil: oechardo), the Oechardes of Ptolemy,
conjectured to be the Tarim.

auraciarn montes (I 51), (Jom and Ghil: aus Scoram);
Auzaciorum montes, perhaps part of the Tien-shan.

Serica.
(Ptolemy VI., c. 16).

8ecarum regio (I 44), Serica regio, i.e. Northern China.

anam montes (I 58), Jom and Ghil: umibi mento;
Anniba montes, to the N. of Serica, part of the Tien-shan.

tasy montes (I 43), Cash montes, the mountains of the
Cash, a tribe bordering on Kashmir.

Western Turkistan.

On the Paris facsimile the rivers flowing into the
hyrkanische mer from the east are called Jemba, Sir and
Amu, and the town near the mer is called Chiwa. These
names are not to be discovered on the original at
Niirnberg, nor are they given by Jomard or Ghillany, and
I have therefore omitted them. The Amo fl. (Amu) is
already named on the Catalan map (1375).

badriani (G 44), Bactriana, Ptol VI 11.

tarifpa (G 42), Zarispa, Ptol VI 11.

alexandria (G 43), Alexandria Oxiana, Ptol VI 12, on
Jom and Ghillany's facsimiles a second Alexandria—
Alexandria zeluma (ultima)—is shown as lying to the
south of Alexandria Oxiana. They omit dementi
(clemenfu, H 41).

Sago and Sagoi gebiirg (G 45), the latter only given by
Jom and Ghil, may be identified with Sogdii montes of
Ptolemy (VI 12).

dogum (G 44), M. Polo I 32. Yule reads Dogana and
identifies it with a village Dehana in the Ghori district.

balach (G 37), M. Polo I 32, also Balk on the Amu
(G 42), the mod. Balkh.

Bala/chan (G 37), M. Polo 1 34, Badakhshan.

ba/cia (G 39), M. Polo I 35, a district on the road from
Badakhshan to Kashmir.

focan (G 39), vocany (H 26), M. Polo I 37 : Wakhan.

panan or kanan (I 40), M. Polo I 37, should be pamer,
and represents the Pamir Plateau.

below (G 41), M. Polo I 37 : Bolor Tagh, the mountains
between the Hindu Kush and the Tien-shan.

Samarcan (G 33), M. Polo I 39 : Samarkand, placed by
Behaim in the middle of Persia !

erase (H 45), on the site of Ptolemy's Cyroschata.

cor pari (G 40).

danco (G 38).

bari (G 38).

in/im (G 42).

onejam (G 50), with a tall man and two boys near him.
Can this be the " Unccan " (Vang-Khan) whom Marco
Polo identified with Prester John !

Tarim (Eastern Turkistan).

Marco Polo's Turkestan extends from Samarkand in
the west to Lop in the east.

turke/tana (G 46) is shown as a town and not as the
name of a country.