Marco Polo
translation: Henry Yule, Henri Cordier

THE TRAVELS OF MARCO POLO
Volume II.
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WOODCUTS PRINTED WITH THE TEXT.

BOOK SECOND.—PART SECOND.

The BRIDGE of PULISANGHIN, the Lu-ku-k'iao of the Chinese, reduced from a large Chinese Engraving in the Geographical work called Ki-fu-thung-chi in the Paris Library. I owe the indication of this, and of the Portrait of Kúblái Kaan in vol. i. to notes in M. Pauthier's edition.

The BRIDGE of PULISANGHIN. From the Livre des Merveilles.

BRIDGE of LU-KU-K'IAO. From a photograph by Count de SEMALLÉ.

BRIDGE of LU-KU-K'IAO. From a photograph by Count de SEMALLÉ.

The ROI D'OR. Professed Portrait of the Last of the Altun Khans or Kin
Emperors of Cathay, from the (fragmentary) Arabic Manuscript of
Rashiduddin's History in the Library of the Royal Asiatic Society. This
Manuscript is supposed to have been transcribed under the eye of
Rashiduddin, and the drawings were probably derived from Chinese originals.

Plan of Ki-chau, after Duhalde.

The CROSS incised at the head of the GREAT CHRISTIAN INSCRIPTION of SI-NGAN FU (A.D. 781); actual size, from copy of a pencil rubbing made on the original by the Rev. J. Lees. Received from Mr. A. Wylie.

Diagram to elucidate the cities of Ch'eng-tu fu.

Plan of Ch'eng-tu. From MARCEL MONNIER'S Tour d'Asie, by kind permission of M. PLON.

Bridge near Kwan-hsien (Ch'eng-tu). From MARCEL MONNIER'S Tour d'Asie, by kind permission of M. PLON.

MOUNTAINEERS on the Borders of SZE-CH'WAN and TIBET, from one of the illustrations to Lieut. Garnier's Narrative (see p. 48). From Tour du Monde.

VILLAGE of EASTERN TIBET on Sze-ch'wan Frontier. From Mr. Cooper's Travels of a Pioneer of Commerce.

Example of ROADS on the TIBETAN FRONTIER of China (being actually a view of the Gorge of the Lan t'sang Kiang). From Mr. Cooper's Travels of a Pioneer of Commerce.

The VALLEY of the KIN-SHA KIANG, near the lower end of the CAINDU of Marco
Polo. From Lieut. Garnier in the Tour du Monde.

SALT PANS in Yun-nan. From the same.

Black Lolo.

White Lolo. From DEVÉRIA'S Frontiere Sino-annamite.

Pa-y Script. From the (...)

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