[289] See Sir Henry Yule’s Cathay and the Way Thither (2 vols. Hakluyt Society) and his edition of The Book of Marco Polo, for numerous particulars of the overland trade to China by the northern parallels, in the 14th century.
[290] The stages, distances, expenses, &c. from Tana to Peking are given in Pegolotti’s mercantile handbook (written about 1340), in Yule’s Cathay and the Way Thither, vol. II.
[291] C. A. Gordon, M.D. in Reports of Med. Officers to the Imperial Maritime Customs of China, London, 1884.
[292] Gaubil, Histoire de Gentchiscan, Paris, 1739.
[293] The Famine in China, London, 1878—a translation of a Chinese appeal for charity, with illustrations.
[294] Parliamentary Papers, 1878, China, No. 4.
[295] In Yule’s Cathay and the Way Thither (Hakluyt Society), I. 156.
[296] Etienne Pariset, Causes de la Peste. Paris, 1837.
[297] Volney, Voyages en Syrie et en Egypte. Paris, 1792.
[298] Cornelius de Pauw, Philosophical Reflections on the Egyptians and Chinese, Engl. Transl. Lond. 1795, 2 vols.