xlvi AUTHOR'S PREFACE. 



our travels comprises descriptions of the physical 

 geography and ethnography of the country we 

 visited, and also a narrative of the progress of the 

 expedition. The two following volumes will treat 

 of special subjects, and will appear — the second in 

 December of the present year, and the third a year 

 later, i.e. at the end of 1876. 



N. PREJEVALSKY. 

 St. Petersburg : January i, 1875. 



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