Book Second.—Part First.

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[340.]Nakkaras. From a Chinese original in the Lois des Empereurs Mandchous (Thai-Thsing-Hoei-Tien-Thou), in the Paris Library.
[341.]Nakkaras. After one of the illustrations in Blochmann’s edition of the Ain-i-Akbari.
[352.]Seljukian Coin, with the Lion and the Sun (A.H. 640). After Marsden’s Numismata Orientalia, No. 98. Engraved by Adeney.
[356.]Sculptured Gerfalcon from the Gate of Iconium. Copied from Hammer’s Falknerklee.
[358.]Portrait of the Great Kaan Kúblái. From a Chinese engraving in the Encyclopædia called San Thsai-Thou-Hoei; in the Paris Library.
[367.]Ideal Plan of the Ancient Palaces of the Mongol Emperors at Khanbaligh, according to Dr. Bretschneider.
[369.]Palace at Khan-baligh. From the Livre des Merveilles.
[369.]The Winter Palace at Peking. Borrowed from Fergusson’s History of Architecture.
[371.]View of the “Green Mount.” From a photograph kindly lent to the present Editor by Count de Semallé.
[373.]The Yüan ch’eng. From a photograph kindly lent to the present Editor by Count de Semallé.
[376.]South Gate of the “Imperial City” at Peking. From an original sketch belonging to the late Dr. W. Lockhart.
[399.]The Búrgút Eagle. After Atkinson’s Oriental and Western Siberia.
[409.]The Tents of the Emperor K’ien-lung. From a drawing in the Staunton Collection in the British Museum.
[413.]Plain of Cambaluc; the City in the distance; from the hills on the north-west. From a photograph. Borrowed from Dr. Rennie’s Peking.
[459.]The Great Temple of Heaven at Peking. From Michie’s Siberian Overland Route.
[463.]Marble Archway erected under the Mongol Dynasty at Kiu-Yong Kwan in the Nan-k’au Pass, N.W. of Peking. From a photograph in the possession of the present Editor.

Doorway of the House of Marco Polo in the Corte Sabbionera, at Venice.


MARCO POLO AND HIS BOOK.


INTRODUCTORY NOTICES.