At Kandy, after Emerson Tennent. 2. At
Fu-chau, after Fortune.
"CHINESE PAGODA" (so called) at Negapatam. From a sketch taken by Sir
Walter Elliot, K.C.S.I., in 1846.
PAGODA at TANJORE. From Fergusson's History of Architecture.
Ancient CROSS with Pehlvi Inscription, preserved in the church on ST.
THOMAS'S MOUNT near Madras. From a photograph, the gift of A. Burnell,
Esq., of the Madras Civil Service, assisted by a lithographic drawing in
his unpublished pamphlet on Pehlvi Crosses in South India. N.B. - The
lithograph has now appeared in the Indian Antiquary, November, 1874.
The Little MOUNT of ST. THOMAS, near Madras. After Daniel.
Small Map of the ST. THOMAS localities at Madras.
Ancient Christian CHURCH at PARUR or Palur, on the Malabar Coast; from an
engraving in Pearson's Life of Claudius Buchanan, after a sketch by the
latter.
SYRIAN CHURCH at Karanyachirra, showing the quasi-Jesuit Facade generally
adopted in modern times. From the Life of Bishop Daniel Wilson.
INTERIOR of Syrian CHURCH at Koetteiyam. From the same.
CAPE COMORIN. From an original sketch by Mr. FOOTE of the Geological Survey
of India.
MOUNT D'ELY. From a nautical sketch of last century.
Mediaeval ARCHITECTURE in GUZERAT, being a view of Gateway at Jinjawara,
given in Forbes's Ras Mala. From Fergusson's History of Architecture.
The GATES of SOMNATH (so called), as preserved in the British Arsenal at
Agra. From a photograph by Messrs. SHEPHERD and BOURNE, converted into an
elevation.
The RUKH, after a Persian drawing. From Lane's Arabian Nights.
Frontispiece of A. Mueller's Marco Polo, showing the Bird Rukh.
The ETHIOPIAN SHEEP. From a sketch by Miss Catherine Frere.
View of ADEN in 1840. From a sketch by Dr. R. KIRK in the Map-room of the
Royal Geographical Society.
The Harvest of FRANKINCENSE in Arabia. Facsimile of an engraving in
Thevet's Cosmographie Universelle (1575). Reproduced from Cassell's
Bible Educator, by the courtesy of the publishers.
BOSWELLIA FREREANA, from a drawing by Mr. W.H. FITCH. The use of this
engraving is granted by the India Museum through the kindness of Sir
George Birdwood.
A Persian BAD-GIR, or Wind-Catcher. From a drawing in the Atlas to
Hommaire de Hell's Persia. Engraved by ADENEY.
BOOK FOURTH.
Tomb of OLJAITU KHAN, the brother of Polo's CASAN, at Sultaniah. From
Fergusson's History of Architecture.
The Siberian DOG-SLEDGE. From the Tour du Monde.
Mediaeval RUSSIAN Church. From Fergusson's History of Architecture.
Figure of a TARTAR under the Feet of Henry Duke of Silesia, Cracow, and
Poland, from the tomb at Breslau of that Prince, killed in battle with the
Tartar host, 9th April, 1241. After a plate in Schlesische Fuerstenbilder
des Mittelalters, Breslau, 1868.
Asiatic WARRIORS of Polo's Age. From the MS. of Rashiduddin's History,
noticed under cut at p. 19. Engraved by ADENEY.
APPENDICES.
FIGURE of MARCO POLO, from the first printed edition of his Book, published
in German at Nuremberg 1477. Traced from a copy in the Berlin Library.
(This tracing was the gift of Mr. Samuel D. Horton, of Cincinnati,
through Mr. Marsh.)
Marco Polo's rectified Itinerary from Khotan to Nia.