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CHINESE CONJURING Extraordinary. Extracted from an engraving in Edward
Melton's Zeldzaame Reizen, etc. Amsterdam, 1702.

A MONASTERY of LAMAS. Borrowed - Page 76
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CHINESE CONJURING Extraordinary.

Extracted from an engraving in Edward Melton's Zeldzaame Reizen, etc.

Amsterdam, 1702.

A MONASTERY of LAMAS. Borrowed from the Tour du Monde.

A TIBETAN BACSI. Sketched from the life by the Editor.

BOOK SECOND. - PART FIRST.

NAKKARAS. From a Chinese original in the Lois des Empereurs Mandchous (Thai-Thsing-Hoei-Tien-Thou), in the Paris Library.

NAKKARAS. After one of the illustrations in Blochmann's edition of the Ain-i-Akbari.

Seljukian Coin, with the LION and the SUN (A.H. 640). After Marsden's Numismata Orientalia, No. 98. Engraved by Adeney.

Sculptured GERFALCON from the Gate of Iconium. Copied from Hammer's Falknerklee.

Portrait of the Great KAAN KUBLAI. From a Chinese engraving in the Encyclopaedia called San Thsai-Thou-Hoei; in the Paris Library.

Ideal Plan of the Ancient Palaces of the Mongol Emperors at Khanbaligh, according to Dr. Bretschneider.

Palace at Khan-baligh. From the Livre des Merveilles.

The WINTER PALACE at PEKING. Borrowed from Fergusson's History of Architecture.

View of the "GREEN MOUNT." From a photograph kindly lent to the present Editor by Count de SEMALLE.

The Yuean ch'eng. From a photograph kindly lent to the present Editor by Count de SEMALLE.

South GATE of the "IMPERIAL CITY" at Peking. From an original sketch belonging to the late Dr. W. Lockhart.

The BUGUT EAGLE. After Atkinson's Oriental and Western Siberia.

The TENTS of the EMPEROR K'ien-lung. From a drawing in the Staunton Collection in the British Museum.

Plain of CAMBALUC; the City in the distance; from the hills on the north-west. From a photograph. Borrowed from Dr. Rennie's Peking.

The Great TEMPLE OF HEAVEN at Peking. From Michie's Siberian Overland Route.

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.

MARCO POLO AND HIS BOOK.

INTRODUCTORY NOTICES.

I. OBSCURITIES IN THE HISTORY OF HIS LIFE AND BOOK. RAMUSIO'S STATEMENTS.

[Illustration: Doorway of the House of Marco Polo in the Corte Sabbionera, at Venice]

[Sidenote: Obscurities of Polo's Book, and personal History.]

1. With all the intrinsic interest of Marco Polo's Book it may perhaps be doubted if it would have continued to exercise such fascination on many minds through succesive generations were it not for the difficult questions which it suggests. It is a great book of puzzles, whilst our confidence in the man's veracity is such that we feel certain every puzzle has a solution.

And such difficulties have not attached merely to the identification of places, the interpretation of outlandish terms, or the illustration of obscure customs; for strange entanglements have perplexed also the chief circumstances of the Traveller's life and authorship. The time of the dictation of his Book and of the execution of his Last Will have been almost the only undisputed epochs in his biography. The year of his birth has been contested, and the date of his death has not been recorded; the critical occasion of his capture by the Genoese, to which we seem to owe the happy fact that he did not go down mute to the tomb of his fathers, has been made the subject of chronological difficulties; there are in the various texts of his story variations hard to account for; the very tongue in which it was written down has furnished a question, solved only in our own age, and in a most unexpected manner.

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