The Travels of Marco Polo
Chapter 17 : NOTE.--Distribution and Consumption of Coal in China.x.x.xI.--HOW THE GREAT KAAN CAUSES

NOTE.--Distribution and Consumption of Coal in China.

x.x.xI.--HOW THE GREAT KAAN CAUSES STORES OF CORN TO BE MADE, TO HELP HIS PEOPLE WITHAL IN TIME OF DEARTH

NOTE.--The Chinese Public Granaries.

x.x.xII.--OF THE CHARITY OF THE EMPEROR TO THE POOR.

NOTE.--Buddhist influence, and Chinese Charities.

x.x.xIII.--[CONCERNING THE ASTROLOGERS IN THE CITY OF CAMBALUC]

NOTES.--1. The word _Tacuin_.--The Chinese Almanacs. The Observatory.

2. The Chinese and Mongol Cycle.

x.x.xIV.--[CONCERNING THE RELIGION OF THE CATHAYANS; THEIR VIEWS AS TO THE SOUL; AND THEIR CUSTOMS]

NOTES.--1. Textual. 2. Do. 3. Exceptions to the general charge of Irreligion brought against the Chinese. 4. Politeness. 5. Filial Piety.

6. Pocket Spitoons.

EXPLANATORY LIST OF ILl.u.s.tRATIONS TO VOLUME I.

INSERTED PLATES AND MAPS.

Portrait of Sir HENRY YULE. From the Painting by Mr. T. B. Wirgman, in the Royal Engineers' Mess House at Chatham.

Illuminated t.i.tle, with Medallion representing the POLOS ARRIVING AT VENICE after 26 years' absence, and being refused admittance to the Family Mansion; as related by Ramusio, p. 4 of Introductory Essay. Drawn by Signor QUINTO CENNI, No. 7 Via Solferino, Milan; from a Design by the Editor.

DOORWAY of the HOUSE of MARCO POLO in the Corte Sabbionera at Venice.

Woodcut from a drawing by Signor L. ROSSO, Venice.

_Corte del Milione_, Venice.

_Malibran Theatre_, Venice.

Entrance to the Corte del Milione, Venice. From photographs taken for the present editor, by Signor NAYA.

Figures from St. Sabba's, sent to Venice. From a photograph of Signor NAYA.

Church of SAN MATTEO, at Genoa.

_Palazzo di S. Giorgio_, at Genoa.

_Miracle of S. Lorenzo_. From the Painting by V. CARPACCIO.

Facsimile of the WILL of MARCO POLO, preserved in St. Mark's Library.

Lithographed from a photograph specially taken by Bertani at Venice.

Pavement in front of S. Lorenzo.

Mosaic Portrait of Marco Polo, at Genoa.

The Pseudo Marco Polo at Canton.

Porcelain Incense-Burner, from the Louvre.

Temple of 500 Genii, at Canton, after a drawing by FeLIX ReGAMEY.

Probable view of MARCO POLO'S OWN GEOGRAPHY: a Map of the World, formed as far as possible from the Traveller's own data. Drawn by the Editor.

Part of the _Catalan Map_ of 1375.

Marco Polo's Itineraries, No. 1. WESTERN ASIA. This includes also "Sketch showing the chief Monarchies of Asia, in the latter part of the 13th century."

Map ill.u.s.trating the geographical position of the CITY of SARAI. Plan of part of the remains of the same city. Reduced from a Russian plan published by _M. Grigorieff_.

Reduced FACSIMILE of the BUDDHIST INSCRIPTION of the Mongol Era, on the Archway at KIU-YONG KWAN in the Pa.s.s of Nan-k'au, north-west of Peking, showing the characters in use under the Mongol Dynasty. Photogravure from the _Recueil des doc.u.ments de l'Epoque Mongole_, by H.H. Prince ROLAND BONAPARTE. _See an Article by_ Mr. Wylie _in the J. R. A. S. for 1870, p.

14._

Plan of AYAS, the Laias of Polo. _From an Admiralty Chart_. Plan of position of DILaWAR, the supposed site of the Dilavar of Polo. _Ext.

from a Survey by Lt.-Col. D. G. Robinson, R.E._

Marco Polo's Itineraries, No. II. Routes between KERMAN and HORMUZ.

Marco Polo's Itineraries, No. III. Regions on and near the UPPER OXUS.

Heading, in the old Chinese seal-character, of an INSCRIPTION on a Memorial raised by Kublai Kaan to a Buddhist Ecclesiastic, in the vicinity of his summer-palace at SHANGTU in Mongolia. Reduced from a facsimile obtained on the spot by _Dr. S. W. Bush.e.l.l_, 1872, and by him lent to the Editor.

The CHO-KHANG. The grand Temple of Buddha at _Lhasa_, from _The Journey to Lhasa_, by SARAT CHANDRA DAS, by kind permission of the Royal Geographical Society.

"_Table d'Or de Commandement_;" the PAZA of the MONGOLS, from a specimen found in Siberia. _Reduced to one-half the scale of the original, from an engraving in a paper by_ I. J. Schmidt _in the_ Bulletin de la Cla.s.se Historico-Philologique de l'Acad. Imp. des Sciences, St. Petersbourg, tom.

iv. No. 9.

Second Example of a Mongol Paza with superscription in the Uighur character, found near the Dnieper River, 1845. From _Trans. of the Oriental Section, Imp. Soc. of Archaeology_ of St. Petersburg, vol. v. The Inscription on this runs: "_By the strength of Eternal Heaven, and thanks to Its Great Power, the Man who obeys not the order of Abdullah shall be guilty, shall die._"

Plan of PEKING as it is, and as it was about A.D. 1290.

BANK-NOTE of the MING Dynasty, on one-half the scale of the original.

Reduced from a genuine note in the possession of the British Museum. Was brought back from Peking after the siege of the Legations in 1900.

Mongol "Compendium Instrument."

Mongol Armillary Sphere.