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However, coming back to the previous thought, that is
“Kitaia Lacus”
,
at the times thanks to
brothers Boroughs' voyages (Baron, S.H., 1989 & Mayers, K., 2005) there was known only
the lower course of the Ob river, and yet before the Jenkinson's map has been made. Then it
is very probable, that Jenkinson, who did not know the further course of the Ob river, could
add up information acquired by the mentioned brothers with his own information collected
during his second travel to Russia, when he reached Bokhara. Hence, he made similar
mistake as Wied on his map - to join two pieces of news together - because he did not know
the territory between the lower Ob river and the Ougus river. That is why there is also Sur
extended to the south and the Aral Sea shifted too much to the north that was Wied's some
kind of idea or trick done by eliminating the unknown territory.
Figure 13.
Funeral ceremony by Kirghizes
On the other hand there are still many unclear points in the presented “discussion”. We
should raise the question, why under the entry
“Arall”
in the quoted dictionary by Bruzen
de la Martiniere there is only a short description on the settlement of the same name.
“Arall”
as a sea is only briefly mentioned there, however in the same dictionary is that the view is so
great as the sea! Another argument which indicates that the Kitaia Lake is the Aral Sea is the
opinion expressed by zoologist J. Bartmańska
19
, who claims that these kinds of animals as
camels, tarpans and sheep should be presented on the latitudes 45
0
- 52
0
but not on the 60
0
-
65
0
. However, some of them are situated in a correct place, too, for instance in northern
direction of the Caspian Sea in the genuine map. We know that the latitude of the Aral Sea is
about 45
0
and there is Kyzyl-Kum desert but not the region of the high mountains as it is
19
According to the manuscript expertise made during the Polish grant (1994/95) in the form of the order.
