_Page_ 478. Tomb of OLJAITU KHAN, the brother of Polo’s CASAN, at Sultaniah. From _Fergusson’s History of Architecture_. 483. The Siberian DOG-SLEDGE. From the _Tour du Monde_. 489. Mediæval RUSSIAN Church. From _Fergusson’s History of Architecture_. 493. 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 Fürstenbilder des Mittelalters_, Breslau, 1868. 501. Asiatic WARRIORS of Polo’s Age. From the MS. of Rashiduddin’s History, noticed under cut at p. 19. Engraved by ADENEY. APPENDICES. _Page_ 555. 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.) 595. Marco Polo’s rectified Itinerary from Khotan to Nia. [Illustration: MARCO POLO in the Prison of Genoa.] THE BOOK OF MARCO POLO BOOK II.—_CONTINUED_. PART II.—JOURNEY TO THE WEST AND SOUTH-WEST OF CATHAY. CHAPTER XXXV. HERE BEGINS THE DESCRIPTION OF THE INTERIOR OF CATHAY, AND FIRST OF THE RIVER PULISANGHIN. Now you must know that the Emperor sent the aforesaid Messer Marco Polo, who is the author of this whole story, on business of his into the Western Provinces. On that occasion he travelled from Cambaluc a good four months’ journey towards the west.{1} And so now I will tell you all that he saw on his travels as he went and returned.