Marco Polo’s Itineraries, No.  III.  Regions on and near the UPPER OXUS.

Heading, in the old Chinese seal-character, of an INSCRIPTION on a Memorial raised by Kublai Kaan to a Buddhist Ecclesiastic, in the vicinity of his summer-palace at SHANGTU in Mongolia.  Reduced from a facsimile obtained on the spot by Dr. S. W. Bushell, 1872, and by him lent to the Editor.

The CHO-KHANG.  The grand Temple of Buddha at Lhasa, from The Journey to Lhasa, by SARAT CHANDRA DAS, by kind permission of the Royal Geographical Society.

“Table d’Or de Commandement;” the PAIZA of the MONGOLS, from a specimen found in Siberia. Reduced to one-half the scale of the original, from an engraving in a paper by I. J. Schmidt in the Bulletin de la Classe Historico-Philologique de l’Acad.  Imp. des Sciences, St. Petersbourg, tom. iv.  No. 9.

Second Example of a Mongol Paiza with superscription in the Uighur character, found near the Dnieper River, 1845.  From Trans. of the Oriental Section, Imp.  Soc. of Archaeology of St. Petersburg, vol. v.  The Inscription on this runs:  “By the strength of Eternal Heaven, and thanks to Its Great Power, the Man who obeys not the order of Abdullah shall be guilty, shall die.”

Plan of PEKING as it is, and as it was about A.D. 1290.

BANK-NOTE of the MING Dynasty, on one-half the scale of the original.  Reduced from a genuine note in the possession of the British Museum.  Was brought back from Peking after the siege of the Legations in 1900.

Mongol “Compendium Instrument.”

Mongol Armillary Sphere.

Observatory Terrace.

Observatory Instruments of the Jesuits.  All these from photographs kindly lent to the present Editor by Count de Semalle.

Marco Polo’s Itineraries.  No.  IV.  EASTERN ASIA.  This includes also Sketch Map of the Ruins of SHANGTU, after Dr. BUSHELL; and Enlarged Sketch of the Passage of the Hwang-ho or Karamoran on the road to Si-ngan fu (see vol. ii. pp. 25-27) from the data of Baron von Richthofen.

WOODCUTS PRINTED WITH THE TEXT.

INTRODUCTORY NOTICES.

A MEDIAEVAL SHIP.

COAT OF ARMS of SIR HENRY YULE.

ARMS of the POLO family, according to Priuli.

ARMS of the POLO family, according to Marco Barbaro. (See p. 7, note.)

Autograph of HETHUM or HAYTON I. King of (Cicilian) Armenia; copied from Codice Diplomatico del Sacro Militare Ordine Gerosolemitano, I. 135.  The signature is attached to a French document without date, granting the King’s Daughter “Damoiselle Femie” (Euphemia) in marriage to Sire Julian, son of the Lady of Sayete (Sidon).  The words run:  Thagavor Haiwetz ("Rex Armenorum"), followed by the King’s cypher or monogram; but the initial letter is absent, probably worn off the original document.