The Travels of Marco Polo
Chapter 19 : Portrait of H. H. AGHA KHaN MEHELaTI, late representative of the OLD MAN of the MOUNTAI

Portrait of H. H. AGHA KHaN MEHELaTI, late representative of the OLD MAN of the MOUNTAIN. From a photograph by Messrs. SHEPHERD and BOURNE.

Ancient SILVER PATERA of debased Greek Art, formerly in the possession of the Princes of BADAKHSHAN, now in the India Museum.

Ancient BUDDHIST Temple at Pandrethan in KaSHMIR. Borrowed from _Fergusson's History of Architecture_.

Horns of the _OVIS POLI_, or Great Sheep of Pamir. Drawn by the Editor from the specimen belonging to the Royal Asiatic Society.

Figure of the _OVIS POLI_ or Great Sheep of Pamir. From a drawing by Mr.

Severtsof in a Russian publication.

Head of a native of KASHGAR. After Verchaguine. From the _Tour du Monde_.

View of KASHGAR. From _Mr. R. Shaw's Tartary_.

View of SAMARKAND. From a Sketch by Mr. D. IVANOFF, engraved in a Russian Ill.u.s.trated Paper (kindly sent by Mr. I. to the editor).

Colossal Figure; BUDDHA entering NIRVANA. Sketched by the Editor at Pagan in Burma.

Great LAMA MONASTERY, viz., that at Jehol. After _Staunton's Narrative of Lord Macartney's Emba.s.sy_.

The _Kyang_, or WILD a.s.s of Mongolia. After a plate by Wolf in the _Journal of the Royal Zoological Society_.

The Situation of Karakorum.

Entrance to the Erdeni Tso, Great Temple. From MARCEL MONNIER'S _Tour d'

Asie_, by kind permission of M. PLON.

Death of Chinghiz Khan. From a Miniature in the _Livre des Merveilles_.

Dressing up a Tent, from MARCEL MONNIER'S _Tour d' Asie_, by kind permission of M. PLON.

Mediaeval TARTAR HUTS and WAGGONS. Drawn by Sig. QUINTO CENNI, on a design compiled by the Editor from the descriptions of mediaeval and later travellers.

Tartar IDOLS and k.u.mIS Churn. Drawn by the Editor after data in _Pallas_ and _Zaleski_ (_Vie des Steppes Kirghiz_).

The _SYRRHAPTES PALLASII; Bargherlac_ of Marco Polo. From a plate by Wolf in the _Ibis_ for April, 1860.

REEVES'S PHEASANT. After an engraving in _Wood's Ill.u.s.trated Natural History_.

The RAMPART of GOG and MAGOG. From a photograph of the Great Wall of China. Borrowed from _Dr. Rennie's Peking and the Pekingese_.

A PAVILION at Yuen-Ming-Yuen, to ill.u.s.trate the probable style of Kublai Kaan's Summer Palace. Borrowed from _Michie's Siberian Overland Route_.

CHINESE CONJURING Extraordinary. Extracted from an engraving in _Edward Melton's Zeldzaame Reizen_, etc. Amsterdam, 1702.

A MONASTERY of LAMAS. Borrowed from the _Tour du Monde_.

A TIBETAN BACSI. Sketched from the life by the Editor.

BOOK SECOND.--PART FIRST.

NAKKARAS. From a Chinese original in the _Lois des Empereurs Mandchous_ (_Thai-Thsing-Hoei-Tien-Thou_), in the Paris Library.

NAKKARAS. After one of the ill.u.s.trations in Blochmann's edition of the _Ain-i-Akbari_.

Seljukian Coin, with the LION and the SUN (A.H. 640). After _Marsden's Numismata Orientalia_, No. 98. Engraved by Adeney.

Sculptured GERFALCON from the Gate of Iconium. Copied from _Hammer's Falknerklee_.

Portrait of the Great KAAN KuBLaI. From a Chinese engraving in the Encyclopaedia called _San Thsai-Thou-Hoei_; in the Paris Library.

Ideal Plan of the Ancient Palaces of the Mongol Emperors at Khanbaligh, according to Dr. Bretschneider.

Palace at Khan-baligh. From the _Livre des Merveilles_.

The WINTER PALACE at PEKING. Borrowed from _Fergusson's History of Architecture_.

View of the "GREEN MOUNT." From a photograph kindly lent to the present Editor by Count de SEMALLe.

The _Yuan ch'eng_. From a photograph kindly lent to the present Editor by Count de SEMALLe.

South GATE of the "IMPERIAL CITY" at Peking. From an original sketch belonging to the late _Dr. W. Lockhart_.

The BuGuT EAGLE. After _Atkinson's Oriental and Western Siberia_.

The TENTS of the EMPEROR K'ien-lung. From a drawing in the _Staunton Collection_ in the British Museum.

Plain of CAMBALUC; the City in the distance; from the hills on the north-west. From a photograph. Borrowed from _Dr. Rennie's Peking_.

The Great TEMPLE OF HEAVEN at Peking. From _Michie's Siberian Overland Route_.

MARBLE ARCHWAY erected under the MONGOL DYNASTY at Kiu-Yong Kwan in the Nan-k'au Pa.s.s, N.W. of Peking. From a photograph in the possession of the present Editor.

MARCO POLO AND HIS BOOK.

INTRODUCTORY NOTICES.