Head of a native of KASHGAR.  After Verchaguine.  From the Tour du Monde.

View of KASHGAR.  From Mr. R. Shaw’s Tartary.

View of SAMARKAND.  From a Sketch by Mr. D. IVANOFF, engraved in a Russian
Illustrated Paper (kindly sent by Mr. I. to the editor).

Colossal Figure; BUDDHA entering NIRVANA.  Sketched by the Editor at Pagan in Burma.

Great LAMA MONASTERY, viz., that at Jehol.  After Staunton’s Narrative of
Lord Macartney’s Embassy.

The Kyang, or WILD ASS of Mongolia.  After a plate by Wolf in the Journal of the Royal Zoological Society.

The Situation of Karakorum.

Entrance to the Erdeni Tso, Great Temple.  From MARCEL MONNIER’S Tour d’
Asie, by kind permission of M. PLON.

Death of Chinghiz Khan.  From a Miniature in the Livre des Merveilles.

Dressing up a Tent, from MARCEL MONNIER’S Tour d’ Asie, by kind permission of M. PLON.

Mediaeval TARTAR HUTS and WAGGONS.  Drawn by Sig.  QUINTO CENNI, on a design compiled by the Editor from the descriptions of mediaeval and later travellers.

Tartar IDOLS and KUMIS Churn.  Drawn by the Editor after data in Pallas and Zaleski (Vie des Steppes Kirghiz).

The SYRRHAPTES PALLASII; Bargherlac of Marco Polo.  From a plate by Wolf in the Ibis for April, 1860.

REEVES’S PHEASANT.  After an engraving in Wood’s Illustrated Natural History.

The RAMPART of GOG and MAGOG.  From a photograph of the Great Wall of China.  Borrowed from Dr. Rennie’s Peking and the Pekingese.

A PAVILION at Yuen-Ming-Yuen, to illustrate the probable style of Kublai Kaan’s Summer Palace.  Borrowed from Michie’s Siberian Overland Route.

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.