The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 2 eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 1,335 pages of information about The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 2.

The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 2 eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 1,335 pages of information about The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 2.

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 DEVERIA’S Frontiere Sino-annamite.

Pa-y Script.  From the T’oung-Pao.

Garden-House on the LAKE of YUN-NAN-FU, YACHI of Polo. From Lieut. 
Garnier in the Tour du Monde.

Road descending from the Table-Land of YUN-NAN into the VALLEY of the KIN-SHA KIANG (the BRIUS of Polo).  From the same.

“A SARACEN of CARAJAN,” being the portrait of a Mahomedan Mullah in Western Yun-nan.  From the same.

The Canal at YUN-NAN FU.  From a photograph by M. TANNANT.

“Riding long like FRENCHMEN,” exemplified from the Bayeux Tapestry.  After Lacroix, Vie Militaire du Moyen Age.

The SANG-MIAU tribe of KWEI-CHAU, with the Cross-bow.  From a coloured drawing in a Chinese work on the Aboriginal Tribes, belonging to W. Lockhart, Esq.

Portraits of a KAKHYEN man and woman.  Drawn by Q. CENNI from a photograph (anonymous).

Temple called GAUDAPALEN in the city of MIEN (i.e.  Pagan in Burma), erected circa A.D. 1160.  Engraving after a sketch by the first Editor, from Fergusson’s History of Architecture.

The PALACE of the KING of MIEN in modern times (viz., the Palace at Amarapura).  From the same, being partly from a sketch by the first Editor.

Script Pa-pe.  From the T’oung-Pao.

HO-NHI and other Tribes in the Department of Lin-ngan in S. Yun-nan, supposed to be the Anin country of Marco Polo.  From Garnier in the Tour du Monde.

The KOLOMAN tribe, on borders of Kwei-chau and Yun-nan.  From coloured drawing in Mr. Lockhart’s book as above (under p. 83).

Script thai of Xieng-hung.  From the T’oung-Pao.

Iron SUSPENSION BRIDGE at Lowatong.  From Garnier in Tour du Monde.

FORTIFIED VILLAGES on Western Frontier of KWEI-CHAU.  From the same.

BOOK SECOND.—­PART THIRD.

YANG-CHAU:  the three Cities under the Sung.

YANG-CHAU:  the Great City under the Sung.  From Chinese Plans kindly sent to the present Editor by the late Father H. Havret, S.J., Zi-ka-wei.

MEDIAEVAL ARTILLERY ENGINES.  Figs, 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5, are CHINESE.  The first four are from the Encyclopaedia San-Thsai-Thou-hoei (Paris Library), the last from Amyot, vol. viii.

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