The Travels of Marco Polo Volume II Part 1

The Travels of Marco Polo.

by Marco Polo and Rustich.e.l.lo of Pisa.

VOLUME II

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 Kublai 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 SEMALLe.

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

The ROI D'OR. Professed Portrait of the Last of the _Altun Khans_ or Kin Emperors of Cathay, from the (fragmentary) Arabic Ma.n.u.script of _Rashiduddin's History_ in the Library of the Royal Asiatic Society. This Ma.n.u.script 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 ill.u.s.trations 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 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 Ca.n.a.l 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 _tha_ 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.

Figs. 6, 7, 8 are SARACEN, 6 and 7 are taken from the work of Reinaud and Fave, Du Feu Gregeois, and by them from the Arabic MS. of Ha.s.san al Raumah (_Arab Anc. Fonds_, No. 1127). Fig. 8 is from _Lord Munster's Arabic Catalogue_ of Military Works, and by him from a MS. of _Rashiduddin's History_.

The remainder are EUROPEAN. Fig. 9 is from _Pertz, Scriptores_, vol.

xviii., and by him from a figure of the Siege of Arbicella, 1227, in a MS. of _Genoese Annals_ (No. 773, _Supp. Lat._ of _Bib. Imp._). Fig. 10 from _Shaw's Dresses and Decorations of the Middle Ages_, vol. i., No.

21, after _B. Mus. MS. Reg._ 16, G. vi. Fig. 11 from Perts as above, under A.D. 1182. Fig. 12, from _Valturius de Re Militari_, Verona, 1483.

Figs. 13 and 14 from the _Poliorceticon_ of Justus Lipsius. Fig. 15 is after the Bodleian MS. of the Romance of Alexander (A.D. 1338), but is taken from the _Gentleman's Magazine_, 3rd ser. vol. vii. p. 467. Fig. 16 from Lacroix's _Art au Moyen Age_, after a miniature of 13th cent. in the Paris Library. Figs. 17 and 18 from the Emperor Napoleon's _etudes de l'Artillerie_, and by him taken from the MS. of Paulus Santinus (Lat.

MS. 7329 in Paris Library). Fig. 19 from Professor Moseley's restoration of a Trebuchet, after the data in the Mediaeval Note-book of Villars de Honcourt, in _Gentleman's Magazine_ as above. Figs. 20 and 21 from the Emperor's Book. Fig. 22 from a German MS. in the Bern Library, the _Chronicle of Justinger and Schilling_.

COIN from a treasure hidden during the siege of SIANG-YANG in 1268-73, and lately discovered in that city.

Island MONASTERIES on the YANG-TZU KIANG; viz.:--