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.

THE BOOK OF MARCO POLO

[Illustration: MARCO POLO in the Prison of Genoa]

BOOK SECOND.--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
RIVE