The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1

by Marco Polo; da Pisa Rusticiano

• 1842 Notes on the Iron of the Kasia Hills. (Jour. Asiatic Soc. Bengal, XI. Part II. July–Dec. 1842, pp. 853–857.)
• Reprinted in Proceedings of the Museum of Economic Geology, 1852.
• 1844 Notes on the Kasia Hills and People. By Lieut. H. Yule. (Jour. Asiatic Soc. Bengal, XII. Part II. July–Dec. 1844, pp. 612–631.)
• 1846 A Canal Act of the Emperor Akbar, with some notes and remarks on the History of the Western Jumna Canals. By Lieut. Yule. (Jour. Asiatic Society Bengal, XV. 1846, pp. 213–223.)
• 1850 The African Squadron vindicated. By Lieut. H. Yule. Second Edition. London, J. Ridgway, 1850, 8vo, pp. 41.
• Had several editions. Reprinted in the Colonial Magazine of March, 1850.
• —— L’Escadre Africaine vengée. Par le lieutenant H. Yule. Traduit du Colonial Magazine de Mars, 1850. (Revue Coloniale, Mai, 1850.)
• 1851 Fortification for Officers of the Army and Students of Military History, with Illustrations and Notes. By Lieut. H. Yule, Blackwood, MDCCCLI. 8vo, pp. xxii.–210. (There had been a previous edition privately printed.)
• —— La Fortification mise à la portée des Officiers de l’Armée et des personnes qui se livrent à l’étude de l’histoire militaire (avec Atlas). Par H. Yule. Traduit de l’Anglais par M. Sapia, Chef de Bataillon d’Artillerie de Marine et M. Masselin, Capitaine du Génie. Paris, J. Corréard, 1858, 8vo, pp. iii.–263, and Atlas.
• 1851 The Loss of the Birkenhead (Verses). (Edinburgh Courant, Dec. 1851.)
• Republished in Henley’s Lyra Heroica, a Book of Verse for Boys. London, D. Nutt, 1890.
• 1852 Tibet. (Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, 1852.)
• 1856 Narrative of Major Phayre’s Mission to the Court of Ava, with Notices of the Country, Government, and People. Compiled by Capt. H. Yule. Printed for submission to the Government of India. Calcutta, J. Thomas, ... 1856, 4to, pp. xxix. + 1 f. n. ch. p. l. er. + pp. 315 + pp. cxiv. + pp. iv. and pp. 70.
• The last pp. iv.–70 contain: Notes on the Geological features of the banks of the River Irawadee and on the Country north of the Amarapoora, by Thomas Oldham ... Calcutta, 1856.
• —— A Narrative of the Mission sent by the Governor-General of India to the Court of Ava in 1855, with Notices of the Country, Government, and People. By Capt. H. Yule. With Numerous Illustrations. London, Smith, Elder & Co., 1858, 4to.
• 1857 On the Geography of Burma and its Tributary States, in illustration of a New Map of those Regions. (Journal, R.G.S., XXVII. 1857, pp. 54–108.)
• —— Notes on the Geography of Burma, in illustration of a Map of that Country. (Proceedings R.G.S., vol. i. 1857, pp. 269–273.)
• 1857 An Account of the Ancient Buddhist Remains at Pagân on the Iráwadi. By Capt. H. Yule. (Jour. Asiatic Society, Bengal, XXVI. 1857, pp. 1–51.)
• 1861 A few notes on Antiquities near Jubbulpoor. By Lieut.-Col. H. Yule. (Journal Asiatic Society, Bengal, XXX. 1861, pp. 211–215.)
• —— Memorandum on the Countries between Thibet, Yunân, and Burmah. By the Very Rev. Thomine D’Mazure (sic), communicated by Lieut.-Col. A. P. Phayre (with notes and a comment by Lieut.-Col. H. Yule). With a Map of the N. E. Frontier, prepared in the Office of the Surveyor-Gen. of India, Calcutta, Aug. 1861. (Jour. Asiatic Soc. Bengal, XXX. 1861, pp. 367–383.)
• 1862 Notes of a brief Visit to some of the Indian Remains in Java. By Lieut.-Col. H. Yule. (Jour. Asiatic Society, Bengal, XXXI. 1862, pp. 16–31.)
• —— Sketches of Java. A Lecture delivered at the Meeting of the Bethune Society, Calcutta, 13th Feb. 1862.
• —— Fragments of Unprofessional Papers gathered from an Engineer’s portfolio after twenty-three years of service. Calcutta, 1862.
• Ten copies printed for private circulation.
• 1863 Mirabilia descripta. The Wonders of the East. By Friar Jordanus, of the Order of Preachers and Bishop of Columbum in India the Greater (circa 1330). Translated from the Latin original, as published at Paris in 1839, in the Recueil de Voyages et de Mémoires, of the Society of Geography, with the addition of a Commentary, by Col. H. Yule, London.
• Printed for the Hakluyt Society, M.DCCC.LXIII, 8vo, p. iv.–xvii.–68.
• —— Report on the Passes between Arakan and Burma [written in 1853]. (Papers on Indian Civil Engineering, vol. i. Roorkee.)
• 1866 Notices of Cathay. (Proceedings, R.G.S., X. 1866, pp. 270–278.)
• —— Cathay and the Way Thither, being a Collection of Mediæval Notices of China. Translated and Edited by Col. H. Yule. With a Preliminary Essay on the Intercourse between China and the Western Nations previous to the Discovery of the Cape route. London, printed for the Hakluyt Society. M.DCCC.LXVI. 2 vols. 8vo.
• 1866 The Insurrection at Palermo. (Times, 29th Sep., 1866.)
• —— Lake People. (The Athenæum, No. 2042, 15th Dec. 1866, p. 804.)
• Letter dated Palermo, 3rd Dec. 1866.
• 1867 General Index to the third ten Volumes of the Journal of the Royal Geographical Society. Compiled by Col. H. Yule. London, John Murray, M.DCCCLXVII, 8vo, pp. 228.
• —— A Week’s Republic at Palermo. (Quarterly Review, Jan. 1867.)
• —— On the Cultivation of Sumach (Rhus coriaria), in the Vicinity of Colli, near Palermo. By Prof. Inzenga. Translated by Col. H. Yule. Communicated by Dr. Cleghorn. From the Trans. Bot. Society, vol. ix., 1867–68, ppt. 8vo, p. 15.
• Original first published in the Annali di Agricoltura Siciliana, redatti per l’Istituzione del Principe di Castelnuovo. Palermo, 1852.
• 1868 Marco Polo and his Recent Editors. (Quarterly Review, vol. 125, July and Oct. 1868, pp. 133 and 166.)
• 1870 An Endeavour to Elucidate Rashiduddin’s Geographical Notices of India. (Journal R. Asiatic Society, N.S. iv. 1870, pp. 340–356.)
• —— Some Account of the Senbyú Pagoda at Mengún, near the Burmese Capital, in a Memorandum by Capt. E. H. Sladen, Political Agent at Mandalé; with Remarks on the Subject, by Col. H. Yule. (Ibid. pp. 406–429.)
• —— Notes on Analogies of Manners between the Indo-Chinese and the Races of the Malay Archipelago. (Report Fortieth Meeting British Association, Liverpool, Sept. 1870, p. 178.)
• 1871 The Book of Ser Marco Polo, the Venetian, Concerning the Kingdoms and Marvels of the East. Newly translated and edited with notes. By Col. H. Yule. In two volumes. With Maps and other Illustrations. London, John Murray, 1871, 2 vols. 8vo.
• —— The Book of Ser Marco Polo, the Venetian, concerning the Kingdoms and Marvels of the East. Newly translated and edited, with Notes, Maps, and other Illustrations. By Col. H. Yule. Second edition. London, John Murray, 1875, 2 vols. 8vo.
• 1871 Address by Col. H. Yule (Report Forty-First Meeting British Association, Edinburgh, Aug. 1871, pp. 162–174.)
• 1872 A Journey to the Source of the River Oxus. By Captain John Wood, Indian Navy. New edition, edited by his Son. With an Essay on the Geography of the Valley of the Oxus. By Col. H. Yule. With maps. London, John Murray, 1872. In–8, pp. xc.–280.
• —— Papers connected with the Upper Oxus Regions. (Journal, xlii. 1872, pp. 438–481.)
• —— Letter [on Yule’s edition of Wood’s Oxus]. (Ocean Highways, Feb. 1874, p. 475.)
• Palermo, 9th Jan. 1874.
• 1873 Letter [about the route of M. Polo through Southern Kerman]. (Ocean Highways, March, 1873, p. 385.)
• Palermo, 11th Jan. 1873.
• —— On Northern Sumatra and especially Achin. (Ocean Highways, Aug. 1873, pp. 177–183.)
• —— Notes on Hwen Thsang’s Account of the Principalities of Tokharistan, in which some previous Geographical Identifications are reconsidered. (Jour. Royal Asiatic Society, N.S. vi. 1873, pp. 92–120 and p. 278.)
• 1874 Francis Garnier (In Memoriam). (Ocean Highways, pp. 487–491.) March, 1874.
• —— Remarks on Mr. Phillips’s Paper [Notices of Southern Mangi]. (Journal, XLIV. 1874, pp. 103–112.)
• Palermo, 22nd Feb. 1874.
• —— [Sir Frederic Goldsmid’s] “Telegraph and Travel.” (Geographical Magazine, April, 1874, p. 34; Oct. 1874, pp. 300–303.)
• —— Geographical Notes on the Basins of the Oxus and the Zarafshán. By the late Alexis Fedchenko. (Geog. Mag., May, 1874, pp. 46–54.)
• —— [Mr. Ashton Dilke on the Valley of the Ili.] (Geog. Mag., June, 1874, p. 123.)
• Palermo, 16th May, 1874.
• —— The Atlas Sinensis and other Sinensiana. (Geog. Mag., 1st July, 1847, pp. 147–148.)
• —— Letter [on Belasaghun]. (Geog. Mag., 1st July, 1874, p. 167; Ibid. 1st Sept. 1874, p. 254.)
• Palermo, 17th June, 1874; 8th Aug. 1874.
• 1874 Bala Sagun and Karakorum. By Eugene Schuyler. With note by Col. Yule. (Geog. Mag., 1st Dec. 1874, p. 389.)
• —— M. Khanikoff’s Identifications of Names in Clavijo. (Ibid. pp. 389–390.)
• 1875 Notes [to the translation by Eugene Schuyler of Palladius’s version of The Journey of the Chinese Traveller, Chang Fe-hui]. (Geog. Mag., 1st Jan. 1875, pp. 7–11.)
• —— Some Unscientific Notes on the History of Plants. (Geog. Mag., 1st Feb. 1875, pp. 49–51.)
• —— Trade Routes to Western China. (Geog. Mag., April, 1875, pp. 97–101.)
• —— Garden of Transmigrated Souls [Friar Odoric]. (Geog. Mag., 1st May, 1875, pp. 137–138.)
• —— A Glance at the Results of the Expedition to Hissar. By Herr P. Lerch. (Geog. Mag., 1st Nov. 1875, pp. 334–339.)
• —— Kathay or Cathay. (Johnson’s American Cyclopædia.)
• —— Achín. (Encycl. Brit. 9th edition, 1875, I. pp. 95–97.)
• —— Afghânistân. (Ibid. pp. 227–241.)
• —— Andaman Islands. (Ibid. II. 1875, pp. 11–13.)
• —— India [Ancient]. (Map No. 31, 1874, in An Atlas of Ancient Geography, edited by William Smith and George Grove. London, John Murray, 1875.)
• 1876 Mongolia, the Tangut Country, and the Solitudes of Northern Tibet, being a Narrative of Three Years’ Travel in Eastern High Asia. By Lieut.-Col. N. Prejevalsky, of the Russian Staff Corps; Mem. of the Imp. Russ. Geog. Soc. Translated by E. Delmar Morgan, F.R.G.S. With Introduction and Notes by Col. H. Yule. With Maps and Illustrations. London, Sampson Low, 1876, 8vo.
• —— Tibet ... Edited by C. R. Markham. Notice of. (Times, 1876, ——?)
• —— Eastern Persia. Letter. (The Athenæum, No. 2559, 11th Nov. 1876.)
• —— Review of H. Howorth’s History of the Mongols, Part I. (The Athenæum, No. 2560, 18th Nov. 1876, pp. 654–656.) Correspondence. (Ibid. No. 2561, 25th Nov. 1876.)
• —— Review of T. E. Gordon’s Roof of the World. (The Academy, 15th July, 1876, pp. 49–50.)
• 1876 Cambodia. (Encycl. Brit. IV. 1876, pp. 723–726.)
• 1877 Champa. (Geog. Mag., 1st March, 1877, pp. 66–67.)
• Article written for the Encycl. Brit. 9th edition, but omitted for reasons which the writer did not clearly understand.
• —— Quid, si Mundus evolvatur? (Spectator, 24th March, 1877.)
• Written in 1875.—Signed Marcus Paulus Venetus.
• —— On Louis de Backer’s L’Extrême-Orient au Moyen-Age. (The Athenæum, No. 2598, 11th Aug. 1877, pp. 174–175.)
• —— On P. Dabry de Thiersant’s Catholicisme en Chine. (The Athenæum, No. 2599, 18th Aug. 1877, pp. 209–210.)
• —— Review of Thomas de Quincey, His Life and Writings. By H. A. Page. (Times, 27th Aug. 1877.)
• —— Companions of Faust. Letter on the Claims of P. Castaldi. (Times, Sept. 1877.)
• 1878 The late Col. T. G. Montgomerie, R.E. (Bengal). (R. E. Journal, April, 1878.) 8vo, pp. 8.
• —— Mr. Henry M. Stanley and the Royal Geographical Society; being the Record of a Protest. By Col. H. Yule and H. M. Hyndman B.A., F.R.G.S. London: Bickers and Son, 1878, 8vo, pp. 48.
• —— Review of Burma, Past and Present; with Personal Reminiscences of the Country. By Lieut.-Gen. Albert Fytche. (The Athenæum, No. 2634, 20th April, 1878, pp. 499–500.)
• —— Kayal. (The Athenæum, No. 2634, 20th April, 1878, p. 515.)
• Letter dated April, 1878.
• —— Missions in Southern India. (Letter to Pall Mall Gazette, 20th June, 1878.)
• —— Mr. Stanley and his Letters of 1875. (Letter to Pall Mall Gazette, 30th Jan. 1878.)
• —— Review of Richthofen’s China, Bd. I. (The Academy, 13th April, 1878, pp. 315–316.)
• —— [A foreshadowing of the Phonograph.] (The Athenæum, No. 2636, 4th May, 1878.)
• 1879 A Memorial of the Life and Services of Maj.-Gen. W. W. H. Greathed, C.B., Royal Engineers (Bengal), (1826–1878). Compiled by a Friend and Brother Officer. London, printed for private circulation, 1879, 8vo, pp. 57.
• —— Review of Gaur: its Ruins and Inscriptions. By John Henry Ravenshaw. (The Athenæum, No. 2672, 11th Jan. 1879, pp. 42–44.)
• —— Wellington College. (Letter to Pall Mall Gazette, 14th April, 1879.)
• —— Dr. Holub’s Travels. (The Athenæum, No. 2710, 4th Oct. 1879, pp. 436–437.)
• —— Letter to Comm. Berchet, dated 2nd Dec. 1878. (Archivio Veneto XVII. 1879, pp. 360–362.)
• Regarding some documents discovered by the Ab. Cav. V. Zanetti.
• —— Gaur. (Encyclop. Brit. X. 1879, pp. 112–116.)
• —— Ghazni. (Ibid. pp. 559–562.)
• —— Gilgit. (Ibid. pp. 596–599.)
• —— Singular Coincidences. (The Athenæum, No. 2719, 6th Dec. 1879.)
• 1880 [Brief Obituary Notice of] General W. C. Macleod. (Pall Mall Gazette, 10th April, 1880.)
• —— [Obituary Notice of] Gen. W. C. Macleod. (Proc. R. Geog. Soc., June, 1880.)
• —— An Ode in Brown Pig. Suggested by reading Mr. Lang’s Ballades in Blue China. [Signed Marcus Paulus Venetus.] (St. James’ Gazette, 17th July, 1880.)
• —— Notes on Analogies of Manners between the Indo-Chinese Races and the Races of the Indian Archipelago. By Col. Yule (Journ. Anthrop. Inst. of Great Britain and Ireland, vol. ix., 1880, pp. 290–301.)
• —— Sketches of Asia in the Thirteenth Century and of Marco Polo’s Travels, delivered at Royal Engineer Institute, 18th Nov. 1880.
• [This Lecture, with slight modification, was also delivered on other occasions both before and after. Doubtful if ever fully reported.]
• —— Dr. Holub’s Collections. (The Athenæum, No. 2724, 10th Jan. 1880.)
• —— Prof. Max Müller’s Paper at the Royal Asiatic Society. (The Athenæum, No. 2731, 28th Feb. 1880, p. 285.)
• —— The Temple of Buddha Gaya. (Review of Dr. Rajendralála Mitra’s Buddha Gaya.) (Sat. Rev., 27th March, 1870.)
• —— Mr. Gladstone and Count Karolyi. (Letter to The Examiner, 22nd May, 1880, signed Tristram Shandy.)
• —— Stupa of Barhut. [Review of Cunningham’s work.] (Sat. Rev., 5th June, 1880.)
• —— From Africa: Southampton, Fifth October, 1880.
• [Verses to Sir Bartle Frere.] (Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, Nov. 1880.)
• —— Review of H. Howorth’s History of the Mongols, Part II. (The Athenæum, No. 2762, 2nd Oct. 1880, pp. 425–427.)
• —— Verboten ist, a Rhineland Rhapsody. (Printed for private circulation only.)
• —— Hindú-Kúsh. (Encyclop. Brit. XI. 1880, pp. 837–839.)
• —— The River of Golden Sand, the Narrative of a Journey through China and Eastern Tibet to Burmah, With Illustrations and ten Maps from Original Surveys. By Capt. W. Gill, Royal Engineers. With an Introductory Essay. By Col. H. Yule, London, John Murray, ... 1880, 2 vols. 8vo, pp. 95–420, 11–453.
• —— The River of Golden Sand: Being the Narrative of a Journey through China and Eastern Tibet to Burmah. By the late Capt. W. Gill, R.E. Condensed by Edward Colborne Baber, Chinese Secretary to H.M.’s Legation at Peking. Edited, with a Memoir and Introductory Essay, by Col. H. Yule. With Portrait, Map, and Woodcuts. London, John Murray, 1883, 8vo., pp. 141–332.
• —— Memoir of Captain W. Gill, R.E., and Introductory Essay as prefixed to the New Edition of the “River of Golden Sand.” By Col. H. Yule. London, John Murray, ... 1884, 8vo. [Paged 19–141.]
• 1881 [Notice on William Yule] in Persian Manuscripts in the British Museum. By Sir F. J. Goldsmid.
• (The Athenæum, No. 2813, 24th Sept. 1881, pp. 401–403.)
• —— Il Beato Odorico di Pordenone, ed i suoi Viaggi: Cenni dettati dal Col. Enrico Yule, quando s’inaugurava in Pordenone il Busto di Odorico il giorno, 23° Settembre, MDCCCLXXXI, 8vo. pp. 8.
• —— Hwen T’sang. (Encyclop. Brit. XII. 1881, pp. 418–419.)
• —— Ibn Batuta. (Ibid. pp. 607–609.)
• —— Kâfiristân. (Ibid. XIII. 1881, pp. 820–823.)
• —— Major James Rennell, F.R.S., of the Bengal Engineers. [Reprinted from the Royal Engineers’ Journal], 8vo., pp. 16.
• (Dated 7th Dec. 1881.)
• 1881 Notice of Sir William E. Baker. (St. James’ Gazette, 27th Dec. 1881.)
• —— Parallels [Matthew Arnold and de Barros]. (The Athenæum, No. 2790, 16th April, 1881, pp. 536.)
• 1882 Memoir of Gen. Sir William Erskine Baker, K.C.B., Royal Engineers (Bengal). Compiled by two old friends, brother officers and pupils. London. Printed for private circulation, 1882, 8vo., pp. 67.
• By H. Y[ule] and R. M. [Gen. R. Maclagan].
• —— Etymological Notes. (The Athenæum, No. 2837, 11th March, 1882; No. 2840, 1st April, 1882, p. 413.)
• —— Lhása. (Encyclop. Brit. XIV. 1882, pp. 496–503.)
• —— Wadono. (The Athenæum, No. 2846, 13th May, 1882, p. 602.)
• —— Dr. John Brown. (The Athenæum, No. 2847, 20th May, 1882, pp. 635–636.)
• —— A Manuscript of Marco Polo. (The Athenæum, No. 2851, 17th June, 1882, pp. 765–766.)
• [About Baron Nordenskiöld’s Facsimile Edition.]
• —— Review of Ancient India as described by Ktesias the Knidian, etc. By J. W. M’Crindle. (The Athenæum, No. 2860, 19th Aug. 1882, pp. 237–238.)
• —— The Silver Coinage of Thibet. (Review of Terrien de Lacouperie’s Paper.) (The Academy, 19th Aug. 1882, pp 140–141.)
• —— Review of The Indian Balhara and the Arabian Intercourse with India. By Edward Thomas. (The Athenæum, No. 2866, 30th Sept. 1882, pp. 428–429.)
• —— The Expedition of Professor Palmer, Capt. Gill, and Lieut. Charrington. (Letter in The Times, 16th Oct. 1882.)
• —— Obituary Notice of Dr. Arthur Burnell. (Times, 20th Oct. 1882.)
• —— Capt. William Gill, R.E. [Notice of]. (The Times, 31st Oct. 1882.)
• See supra, first col. of this page.
• —— Notes on the Oldest Records of the Sea Route to China from Western Asia. By Col. Yule. Proc. of the Royal Geographical Society, and Monthly Record of Geography, Nov. No. 1882, 8vo.
• Proceedings, N.S. IV. 1882, pp. 649–660. Read at the Geographical Section, Brit. Assoc., Southampton Meeting, augmented and revised by the author.
• 1883 Lord Lawrence. [Review of Life of Lord Lawrence. By R. Bosworth Smith.] (Quarterly Review, vol. 155, April, 1883, pp. 289–326.)
• —— Review of Across Chrysé. By A. R. Colquhoun. (The Athenæum, No. 2900, 26th May, 1883, pp. 663–665.)
• —— La Terra del Fuoco e Carlo Darwin. (Extract from Letter published by the Fanfulla, Rome 2nd June, 1883.)
• —— How was the Trireme rowed? (The Academy, 6th Oct. 1883, p. 237.)
• —— Across Chrysé. (The Athenæum, No. 2922, 27th Oct. 1883.)
• —— Political Fellowship in the India Council. (Letter in The Times, 15th Dec. 1883.) [Heading was not Yule’s.]
• —— Maldive Islands. (Encyclop. Brit. XV. 1883, pp. 327–332.)
• —— Mandeville. (Ibid. pp. 473–475.)
• 1884 A Sketch of the Career of Gen. John Reid Becher, C.B., Royal Engineers (Bengal). By an old friend and brother officer. Printed for private circulation, 1884, 8vo, pp. 40.
• —— Ruc Quills. (The Academy, No. 620, 22nd March, 1884, pp. 204–205.) Reprinted in present ed. of Marco Polo, vol. ii. p. 596.
• —— Lord Canning. (Letter in The Times, 2nd April, 1884.)
• —— Sir Bartle Frere [Letter respecting Memorial of]. (St. James’ Gazette, 27th July, 1884.)
• —— Odoric. (Encyclop. Brit. XVIII. 1884, pp. 728–729.)
• —— Ormus. (Ibid. pp. 856–858.)
• 1885 Memorials of Gen. Sir Edward Harris Greathed, K.C.B. Compiled by the late Lieut.-Gen. Alex. Cunningham Robertson, C.B. Printed for private circulation. (With a prefatory notice of the compiler.) London, Harrison & Sons, ... 1885, 8vo, pp. 95.
• The Prefatory Notice of Gen. A. C. Robertson is by H. Yule, June, 1885, p. iii.–viii.
• —— Anglo-Indianisms. (Letter in the St. James’ Gazette, 30th July, 1885.)
• —— Obituary Notice of Col. Grant Allan, Madras Army. (From the Army and Navy Gazette, 22nd Aug. 1885.)
• —— Shameless Advertisements. (Letter in The Times, 28th Oct. 1885.)
• 1886 Marco Polo. (Encyclop. Brit. XIX. 1885, pp. 404–409.)
• —— Prester John. (Ibid. pp. 714–718.)
• —— Brief Notice of Sir Edward Clive Bayley. Pages ix.–xiv. [Prefixed to The History of India as told by its own Historians: Gujarat. By the late Sir Edward Clive Bayley.] London, Allen, 1886, 8vo.
• —— Sir George Udny Yule. In Memoriam (St. James’ Gazette, 18th Jan. 1886.)
• —— Cacothanasia. [Political Verse, Signed Μηνιν ἈΕΙΔΕ.] (St. James’ Gazette, 1st Feb. 1886.)
• —— William Kay, D.D. [Notice of]. (Letter to The Guardian, 3rd Feb. 1886.)
• —— Col. George Thomson, C.B., R.E. (Royal Engineers’ Journal, 1886.)
• —— Col. George Thomson, C.B. [Note]. (St. James’ Gazette, 16th Feb. 1886.)
• —— Hidden Virtues [A Satire on W. E. Gladstone]. (Letter to the St. James’ Gazette, 21st March, 1886. Signed M. P. V.)
• —— Burma, Past and Present. (Quart. Rev. vol. 162, Jan. and April, 1886, pp. 210–238.)
• —— Errors of Facts, in two well-known Pictures.
• (The Athenæum, No. 3059, 12th June, 1886, p. 788.)
• —— [Obituary Notice of] Lieut.-Gen. Sir Arthur Phayre, C.B., K.C.S.I., G.C.M.G. (Proc. R.G.S., N.S. 1886, VIII. pp. 103–112.)
• —— “Lines suggested by a Portrait in the Millais Exhibition.”
• Privately printed and (though never published) widely circulated. These powerful verses on Gladstone are those several times referred to by Sir Mountstuart Grant Duff, in his published Diaries.
• —— Introductory Remarks on The Rock-Cut Caves and Statues of Bamian. By Capt. the Hon. M. G. Talbot. (Journ. R. As. Soc. N.S. XVIII. 1886, pp. 323–329.)
• —— Opening Address. (Ibid. pp. i.–v.)
• —— Opening Address. (Ibid. xix. pp. i.–iii.)
• —— Hobson-Jobsoniana. By H. Yule (Asiatic Quarterly Review, vol. i. 1886, pp. 119–140.)
• —— Hobson-Jobson: Being a Glossary of Anglo-Indian Colloquial Words and Phrases, and of Kindred Terms; etymological, historical, geographical, and discursive. By Col. H. Yule, and the late Arthur Coke Burnell, Ph.D., C.I.E., author of “The Elements of South Indian Palaeography,” etc., London, John Murray, 1886. (All rights reserved), 8vo, p. xliii.–870. Preface, etc.
• A new edition is in preparation under the editorship of Mr. William Crooke (1902).
• 1886 John Bunyan. (Letter in St. James’ Gazette, circa 31st Dec. 1886. Signed M. P. V.)
• —— Rennell. (Encyclop. Brit. XX. 1886, pp. 398–401.)
• —— Rubruquis (Ibid. XXI. 1886, pp. 46–47.)
• 1887 Lieut.-Gen. W. A. Crommelen, C.B., R.E. (Royal Engineers’ Journal, 1887.)
• —— [Obituary Notice] Col. Sir J. U. Bateman Champain. (Times, 2nd Feb. 1887).
• —— “Pulping Public Records.” (Notes and Queries, 19th March, 1887.)
• —— A Filial Remonstrance (Political Verses). Signed M. P. V. (St. James’ Gazette, 8th Aug. 1887.)
• —— Memoir of Major-Gen. J. T. Boileau, R.E., F.R.S. By C. R. Low, I.N., F.R.G.S. With a Preface by Col. H. Yule, C.B., London, Allen, 1887.
• —— The Diary of William Hedges, Esq. (afterwards Sir William Hedges), during his Agency in Bengal; as well as on his voyage out and return overland (1681–1687). Transcribed for the Press, with Introductory Notes, etc., by R. Barlow, Esq., and illustrated by copious extracts from unpublished records, etc., by Col. H. Yule. Pub. for Hakluyt Society. London, 1887–1889, 3 vols. 8vo.
• 1888 Concerning some little known Travellers in the East. (Asiatic Quarterly Review, V. 1888, pp. 312–335.)
• No. I.—George Strachan.
• —— Concerning some little known Travellers in the East. (Asiatic Quarterly Review, VI. 1888, pp. 382–398.)
• No. II.—William, Earl of Denbigh; Sir Henry Skipwith; and others.
• —— Notes on the St. James’s of the 6th Jan. [A Budget of Miscellaneous interesting criticism.] (Letter to St. James’ Gazette, 9th Jan. 1888.)
• —— Deflections of the Nile. (Letter in The Times, 15th Oct. 1888.)
• —— The History of the Pitt Diamond, being an excerpt from Documentary Contributions to a Biography of Thomas Pitt, prepared for issue [in Hedges’ Diary] by the Hakluyt Society. London, 1888, 8vo. pp. 23.
• Fifty Copies printed for private circulation.
• 1889 The Remains of Pagan. By H. Yule. (Trübner’s Record, 3rd ser. vol. i. pt. i. 1889, p. 2.)
• To introduce notes by Dr. E Forchammer.
• —— A Coincident Idiom. By H. Yule. (Trübner’s Record, 3rd ser. vol. i. pt. iii. pp. 84–85.)
• —— The Indian Congress The Times, 1st Jan. 1889.)
• —— Arrowsmith, the Friend of Thomas Poole. (Letter in The Academy, 9th Feb. 1889, p. 96.)

Biographies of Sir Henry Yule.

• —— Colonel Sir Henry Yule, K.C.S.I., C.B., LL.D., R.E. By General Robert Maclagan, R.E. (Proceed. Roy. Geog. Soc. XII. 1890, pp. 108–113.)
• —— Colonel Sir Henry Yule, K.C.S.I., C.B., LL.D., R.E., etc. (With a Portrait). By E. Delmar Morgan. (Scottish Geographical Magazine, VI. 1890, pp. 93–98.) Contains a very good Bibliography.
• —— Col. Sir H. Yule, R.E., C.B., K.C.S.I., by Maj.-Gen. T. B. Collinson, R.E., Royal Engineers’ Journal, March, 1890. [This is the best of the Notices of Yule which appeared at the time of his death.]
• —— Sir Henry Yule, K.C.S.I, C.B., LL.D., R.E., by E. H. Giglioli. Roma, 1890, ppt. 8vo, pp. 8.
• Estratto dal Bollettino della Società Geografica Italiana, Marzo, 1890.
• —— Sir Henry Yule. By J. S. C[otton]. (The Academy, 11th Jan. 1890, No. 923, pp. 26–27.)
• —— Sir Henry Yule. (The Athenæum, No. 3245, 4th Jan. 1900, p. 17; No. 3246, 11th Jan. p. 53; No. 3247, 18th Jan. p. 88.)
• —— In Memoriam. Sir Henry Yule. By D. M. (The Academy, 29th March, 1890, p. 222.)
• See end of Memoir in present work.
• —— Le Colonel Sir Henry Yule. Par M. Henri Cordier. Extrait du Journal Asiatique. Paris, Imprimerie nationale, MDCCCXC, in–8, pp. 26.
• —— The same, Bulletin de la Société de Géographie. Par M. Henri Cordier. 1890, 8vo, pp. 4.
• Meeting 17th Jan. 1890.
• 1889 Baron F. von Richthofen. (Verhandlungen der Gesellschaft für Erdkunde zu Berlin, xvii. 2.)
• —— Colonel Sir Henry Yule, R.E., C.B., K.C.S.I. Memoir by General R. Maclagan, Journ. R. Asiatic Society, 1890.
• —— Memoir of Colonel Sir Henry Yule, R.E., C.B., K.C.S.I., LL.D., etc. By Coutts Trotter. (Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, 1891. p. xliii. to p. lvi.)
• 1889 Sir Henry Yule (1820–1889). By Coutts Trotter. (Dict. of National Biography, lxiii. pp. 405–407.)
• 1903 Memoir of Colonel Sir Henry Yule, R.E., C.B., K.C.S.I., Corr. Inst. France, by his daughter, Amy Frances Yule, L.A. Soc. Ant. Scot., etc. Written for third edition of Yule’s Marco Polo. Reprinted for private circulation only.

[1] This list is based on the excellent preliminary List compiled by E. Delmar Morgan, published in the Scottish Geographical Magazine, vol. vi., pp. 97–98, but the present compilers have much more than doubled the number of entries. It is, however, known to be still incomplete, and any one able to add to the list, will greatly oblige the compilers by sending additions to the Publisher.—A. F. Y.

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SYNOPSIS OF CONTENTS.

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MARCO POLO AND HIS BOOK.

[INTRODUCTORY NOTICES.]

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[I.]	Obscurities in the History of his Life and Book. Ramusio’s Statements	1
	§ 1. Obscurities, etc. 2. Ramusio his earliest Biographer; his Account of Polo. 3. He vindicates Polo’s Geography. 4. Compares him with Columbus. 5. Recounts a Tradition of the Traveller’s Return to Venice. 6. Recounts Marco’s Capture by the Genoese. 7. His statements about Marco’s liberation and marriage. 8. His account of the Family Polo and its termination.
[II.]	Sketch of the State of the East at the Time of the Journeys of the Polo Family	8
	§ 9. State of the Levant. 10. The various Mongol Sovereignties in Asia and Eastern Europe. 11. China. 12. India and Indo-China.
[III.]	The Polo Family. Personal History of the Travellers till their final Return from the East	13
	§ 13. Alleged origin of the Polos. 14. Claims to Nobility. 15. The Elder Marco Polo. 16. Nicolo and Maffeo Polo commence their Travels. 17. Their intercourse with Kúblái Kaan. 18. Their return home, and Marco’s appearance on the scene. 19. Second Journey of the Polo Brothers, accompanied by Marco. (See App. L. 1.) 20. Marco’s Employment by Kúblái Kaan; and his Journeys. 21. Circumstances of the departure of the Polos from the Kaan’s Court. 22. They pass by Persia to Venice. Their relations there.
[IV.]	Digression concerning the Mansion of the Polo Family at S. Giovanni Grisostomo	26
	§ 23. Probable period of their establishment at S. Giovanni Grisostomo. 24. Relics of the Casa Polo in the Corte Sabbionera. 24a. Recent corroboration as to traditional site of the Casa Polo.
[V.]	Digression concerning the War-Galleys of the Mediterranean States in the Middle Ages	31
	§ 25. Arrangement of the Rowers in Mediæval Galleys; a separate Oar to every Man. 26. Change of System in 16th Century. 27. Some details of 13th-Century Galleys. 28. Fighting Arrangements. 29. Crew of a Galley and Staff of a Fleet. 30. Music and miscellaneous particulars.
[VI.]	The Jealousies and Naval Wars of Venice and Genoa. Lamba Doria’s Expedition to the Adriatic; Battle of Curzola; and Imprisonment of Marco Polo by the Genoese	41
	§ 31. Growing Jealousies and Outbreaks between the Republics. 32. Battle in Bay of Ayas in 1294. 33. Lamba Doria’s Expedition to the Adriatic. 34. The Fleets come in sight of each other at Curzola. 35. The Venetians defeated, and Marco Polo a Prisoner. 36. Marco Polo in Prison dictates his Book to Rusticiano of Pisa. Release of Venetian Prisoners. 37. Grounds on which the story of Marco Polo’s capture at Curzola rests.
[VII.]	Rusticiano or Rustichello of Pisa, Marco Polo’s Fellow-Prisoner at Genoa, the Scribe who wrote down the Travels	55
	§ 38. Rusticiano, perhaps a Prisoner from Meloria. 39. A Person known from other sources. 40. Character of his Romance Compilations. 41. Identity of the Romance Compiler with Polo’s Fellow-Prisoner. 42. Further particulars regarding Rusticiano.
[VIII.]	Notices of Marco Polo’s History after the Termination of his Imprisonment at Genoa	64
	§ 43. Death of Marco’s Father before 1300. Will of his Brother Maffeo. 44. Documentary Notices of Polo at this time. The Sobriquet of Milione. 45. Polo’s relations with Thibault de Cepoy. 46. His Marriage, and his Daughters. Marco as a Merchant. 47. His Last Will; and Death. 48. Place of Sepulture. Professed Portraits of Polo. 49. Further History of the Polo Family. 49 bis. Reliques of Marco Polo.
[IX.]	Marco Polo’s Book; and the Language in which it was first written	80
	§ 50. General Statement of what the Book contains. 51. Language of the original Work. 52. Old French Text of the Société de Géographie. 53. Conclusive proof that the Old French Text is the source of all the others. 54. Greatly diffused employment of French in that age.
[X.]	Various Types of Text of Marco Polo’s Book	90
	§ 55. Four Principal Types of Text. First, that of the Geographic or Oldest French. 56. Second, the Remodelled French Text; followed by Pauthier. 57. The Bern MS. and two others form a sub-class of this type. 58. Third, Friar Pipino’s Latin. 59. The Latin of Grynæus, a Translation at Fifth Hand. 60. Fourth, Ramusio’s Italian. 61. Injudicious Tamperings in Ramusio. 62. Genuine Statements peculiar to Ramusio. 63. Hypothesis of the Sources of the Ramusian Version. 64. Summary in regard to Text of Polo. 65. Notice of a curious Irish Version.
[XI.]	Some Estimate of the Character of Polo and His Book	104
	§ 66. Grounds of Polo’s Pre-eminence among Mediæval Travellers. 67. His true claims to glory. 68. His personal attributes seen but dimly. 69. Absence of scientific notions. 70. Map constructed on Polo’s data. 71. Singular omissions of Polo in regard to China; historical inaccuracies. 72. Was Polo’s Book materially affected by the Scribe Rusticiano? 73. Marco’s reading embraced the Alexandrian Romances. Examples. 74. Injustice long done to Polo. Singular Modern Example.
[XII.]	Contemporary Recognition of Polo and his Book	116
	§ 75. How far was there diffusion of his Book in his own day? 76. Contemporary References to Polo. T. de Cepoy; Pipino; Jacopo d’Acqui; Giov. Villani. 77. Pietro d’Abano; Jean le Long of Ypres. 78. Curious borrowings from Polo in the Romance of Bauduin de Sebourc. 78 bis. Chaucer and Marco Polo.
[XIII.]	Nature of Polo’s Influence on Geographical Knowledge	129
	§ 79. Tardy operation, and causes thereof. 80. General characteristics of Mediæval Cosmography. 81. Roger Bacon as a Geographer. 82. Arab Geography. 83. Marino Sanudo the Elder. 84. The Catalan Map of 1375, the most complete mediæval embodiment of Polo’s Geography. 85. Fra Mauro’s Map. Confusions in Cartography of the 16th Century from the endeavour to combine new and old information. 86. Gradual disappearance of Polo’s nomenclature. 87. Alleged introduction of Block-printed Books into Europe by Marco Polo in connexion with the fiction of the invention of Printing by Castaldi of Feltre. 88. Frequent opportunities for such introduction in the Age following Polo’s.
[XIV.]	Explanations regarding the Basis adopted for the Present Translation	141
	§ 89. Texts followed by Marsden and by Pauthier. 90. Eclectic Formation of the English Text of this Translation. 91. Mode of rendering Proper Names.