From a photograph by Count de SEMALLE.
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'eng-tu fu.
Plan of Ch'eng-tu. From MARCEL MONNIER'S Tour d'Asie, by kind permission
of M. PLON.
Bridge near Kwan-hsien (Ch'eng-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 DEVERIA'S Frontiere 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 GAUDAPALEN in the city of MIEN (i.e. Pagan 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.
