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des Merveilles.
BRIDGE of LU-KU-K'IAO. From a photograph by Count de
SEMALLÉ.
BRIDGE of LU-KU-K'IAO. From a photograph by Count de
SEMALLÉ.
The ROI D'OR. Professed Portrait of the Last of the Altun Khans or
Kin Emperors of Cathay, from the (fragmentary) Arabic Manuscript of
_Rashiduddin's History_ in the Library of the Royal Asiatic Society.
This Manuscript 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'êng-tu fu.
Plan of Ch'êng-tu. From MARCEL MONNIER'S _Tour d'Asie_, by
kind permission of M. PLON.
Bridge near Kwan-hsien (Ch'êng-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 illustrations 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 DEVÉRIA'S _Frontière 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 Canal 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 GAUDAPALÉN in the city of MIEN (i.e. Pagán 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 _thaï_ 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 Favé, Du Feu Grégeois, and by them from the Arabic MS.
of Hassan 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
_Études de l'Artillerie_, and by him taken from the MS. of