Asia -- Description and travel -- Early works to 1800; Mongols -- History; Polo, Marco, 1254-1323?; Voyages and travels
176. Horns of the _OVIS POLI_, or Great Sheep of Pamir. Drawn by
the Editor from the specimen belonging to the Royal Asiatic
Society.
177. Figure of the _OVIS POLI_ or Great Sheep of Pamir. From a
drawing by Mr. Severtsof in a Russian publication.
180. Head of a native of KASHGAR. After Verchaguine. From the _Tour
du Monde_.
181. View of KASHGAR. From _Mr. R. Shaw’s Tartary_.
184. View of SAMARKAND. From a Sketch by Mr. D. IVANOFF, engraved
in a Russian Illustrated Paper (kindly sent by Mr. I. to the
editor).
221. Colossal Figure; BUDDHA entering NIRVANA. Sketched by the
Editor at Pagán in Burma.
222. Great LAMA MONASTERY, viz., that at Jehol. After _Staunton’s
Narrative of Lord Macartney’s Embassy_.
224. The _Kyang_, or WILD ASS of Mongolia. After a plate by Wolf in
the _Journal of the Royal Zoological Society_.
229. The Situation of Karákorum.
230. Entrance to the Erdeni Tso, Great Temple. From MARCEL MONNIER’S
_Tour d’Asie_, by kind permission of M. PLON.
244. Death of Chinghiz Khan. From a Miniature in the _Livre des
Merveilles_.
253. Dressing up a Tent, from MARCEL MONNIER’S _Tour d’Asie_, by
kind permission of M. PLON.
255. Mediæval TARTAR HUTS and WAGGONS. Drawn by Sig. QUINTO CENNI,
on a design compiled by the Editor from the descriptions of
mediæval and later travellers.
258. Tartar IDOLS and KUMIS Churn. Drawn by the Editor after data in
_Pallas_ and _Zaleski_ (_Vie des Steppes Kirghiz_).
273. The _SYRRHAPTES PALLASII; Bargherlac_ of Marco Polo. From a
plate by Wolf in the _Ibis_ for April, 1860.
280. REEVES’S PHEASANT. After an engraving in _Wood’s Illustrated
Natural History_.
293. The RAMPART of GOG and MAGOG. From a photograph of the Great
Wall of China. Borrowed from _Dr. Rennie’s Peking and the
Pekingese_.
307. A PAVILION at Yuen-Ming-Yuen, to illustrate the probable style
of Kúblái Kaan’s Summer Palace. Borrowed from _Michie’s
Siberian Overland Route_.
317. CHINESE CONJURING Extraordinary. Extracted from an engraving in
_Edward Melton’s Zeldzaame Reizen_, etc. Amsterdam, 1702.
320. A MONASTERY of LAMAS. Borrowed from the _Tour du Monde_.
326. A TIBETAN BACSI. Sketched from the life by the Editor.
BOOK SECOND.—PART FIRST.
_Page_
340. NAKKARAS. From a Chinese original in the _Lois des Empereurs
Mandchous_ (_Thai-Thsing-Hoei-Tien-Thou_), in the Paris
Library.
341. NAKKARAS. After one of the illustrations in Blochmann’s edition
of the _Ain-i-Akbari_.
352. Seljukian Coin, with the LION and the SUN (A.H. 640). After
_Marsden’s Numismata Orientalia_, No. 98. Engraved by ADENEY.
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