The Travels of Marco Polo
Chapter 112 : The Travels of Marco Polo.by Marco Polo and Rustich.e.l.lo of Pisa.VOLUME II BOOK SECO

The Travels of Marco Polo.

by Marco Polo and Rustich.e.l.lo of Pisa.

VOLUME II

BOOK SECOND.--PART SECOND.

The BRIDGE of PULISANGHIN, the _Lu-ku-k'iao_ of the Chinese, reduced from a large Chinese Engraving in the Geographical work called _Ki-fu-thung-chi_ in the Paris Library. I owe the indication of this, and of the Portrait of Kublai Kaan in vol. i. to notes in M. Pauthier's edition.

The BRIDGE of PULISANGHIN. From the _Livre des Merveilles_.

BRIDGE of LU-KU-K'IAO. From a photograph by Count de SEMALLe.

BRIDGE of LU-KU-K'IAO. From a photograph by Count de SEMALLe.

The ROI D'OR. Professed Portrait of the Last of the _Altun Khans_ or Kin Emperors of Cathay, from the (fragmentary) Arabic Ma.n.u.script of _Ras.h.i.+duddin's History_ in the Library of the Royal Asiatic Society. This Ma.n.u.script is supposed to have been transcribed under the eye of Ras.h.i.+duddin, and the drawings were probably derived from Chinese originals.

Plan of Ki-chau, after Duhalde.

The CROSS incised at the head of the GREAT CHRISTIAN INSCRIPTION of SI-NGAN FU (A.D. 781); actual size, from copy of a pencil rubbing made on the original by the Rev. J. Lees. Received from Mr. A. Wylie.

Diagram to elucidate the cities of Ch'eng-tu fu.

Plan of Ch'eng-tu. From MARCEL MONNIER'S _Tour d'Asie_, by kind permission of M. PLON.

Bridge near Kwan-hsien (Ch'eng-tu). From MARCEL MONNIER'S _Tour d'Asie_, by kind permission of M. PLON.

MOUNTAINEERS on the Borders of SZE-CH'WAN and TIBET, from one of the ill.u.s.trations to Lieut. Garnier's Narrative (see p. 48). From _Tour du Monde_.

VILLAGE of EASTERN TIBET on Sze-ch'wan Frontier. From _Mr. Cooper's Travels of a Pioneer of Commerce_.

Example of ROADS on the TIBETAN FRONTIER of China (being actually a view of the Gorge of the Lan t'sang Kiang). From _Mr. Cooper's Travels of a Pioneer of Commerce_.

The VALLEY of the KIN-SHA KIANG, near the lower end of the CAINDU of Marco Polo. From Lieut. Garnier in the _Tour du Monde_.

SALT PANS in Yun-nan. From the same.

Black Lolo.

White Lolo. From DEVeRIA'S _Frontiere Sino-annamite_.

_Pa-y_ Script. From the _T'oung-Pao_.

Garden-House on the LAKE of YUN-NAN-FU, YACHI of Polo. _From_ Lieut.

Garnier in the _Tour du Monde_.

Road descending from the Table-Land of YUN-NAN into the VALLEY of the KIN-SHA KIANG (the BRIUS of Polo). From the same.

"A SARACEN of CARAJAN," being the portrait of a Mahomedan Mullah in Western Yun-nan. From the same.

The Ca.n.a.l at YUN-NAN FU. From a photograph by M. TANNANT.

"Riding long like FRENCHMEN," exemplified from the Bayeux Tapestry. After Lacroix, _Vie Militaire du Moyen Age_.

The SANG-MIAU tribe of KWEI-CHAU, with the Cross-bow. From a coloured drawing in a Chinese work on the Aboriginal Tribes, belonging to W.

Lockhart, Esq.

Portraits of a KAKHYEN man and woman. Drawn by Q. CENNI from a photograph (anonymous).

Temple called GAUDAPALeN in the city of MIEN (i.e. Pagan in Burma), erected circa A.D. 1160. Engraving after a sketch by the first Editor, from _Fergusson's History of Architecture_.

The PALACE of the KING of MIEN in modern times (viz., the Palace at Amarapura). From the same, being partly from a sketch by the first Editor.

Script _Pa-pe_. From the _T'oung-Pao_.

HO-NHI and other Tribes in the Department of Lin-ngan in S. Yun-nan, supposed to be the _Anin_ country of Marco Polo. From Garnier in the _Tour du Monde_.

The KOLOMAN tribe, on borders of Kwei-chau and Yun-nan. From coloured drawing in Mr. Lockhart's book as above (under p. 83).

Script _tha_ of Xieng-hung. From the _T'oung-Pao_.

Iron SUSPENSION BRIDGE at Lowatong. From Garnier in _Tour du Monde_.

FORTIFIED VILLAGES on Western Frontier of KWEI-CHAU. From the same.

BOOK SECOND.--PART THIRD.

YANG-CHAU: the three Cities under the Sung.

YANG-CHAU: the Great City under the Sung. From Chinese Plans kindly sent to the present Editor by the late Father H. Havret, S.J., Zi-ka-wei.

MEDIAEVAL ARTILLERY ENGINES. Figs, 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5, are CHINESE. The first four are from the Encyclopaedia _San-Thsai-Thou-hoei_ (Paris Library), the last from _Amyot_, vol. viii.

Figs. 6, 7, 8 are SARACEN, 6 and 7 are taken from the work of Reinaud and Fave, Du Feu Gregeois, and by them from the Arabic MS. of Ha.s.san al Raumah (_Arab Anc. Fonds_, No. 1127). Fig. 8 is from _Lord Munster's Arabic Catalogue_ of Military Works, and by him from a MS. of _Ras.h.i.+duddin's History_.

The remainder are EUROPEAN. Fig. 9 is from _Pertz, Scriptores_, vol.

xviii., and by him from a figure of the Siege of Arbicella, 1227, in a MS. of _Genoese Annals_ (No. 773, _Supp. Lat._ of _Bib. Imp._). Fig. 10 from _Shaw's Dresses and Decorations of the Middle Ages_, vol. i., No.

21, after _B. Mus. MS. Reg._ 16, G. vi. Fig. 11 from Perts as above, under A.D. 1182. Fig. 12, from _Valturius de Re Militari_, Verona, 1483.

Figs. 13 and 14 from the _Poliorceticon_ of Justus Lipsius. Fig. 15 is after the Bodleian MS. of the Romance of Alexander (A.D. 1338), but is taken from the _Gentleman's Magazine_, 3rd ser. vol. vii. p. 467. Fig. 16 from Lacroix's _Art au Moyen Age_, after a miniature of 13th cent. in the Paris Library. Figs. 17 and 18 from the Emperor Napoleon's _etudes de l'Artillerie_, and by him taken from the MS. of Paulus Santinus (Lat.

MS. 7329 in Paris Library). Fig. 19 from Professor Moseley's restoration of a Trebuchet, after the data in the Mediaeval Note-book of Villars de Honcourt, in _Gentleman's Magazine_ as above. Figs. 20 and 21 from the Emperor's Book. Fig. 22 from a German MS. in the Bern Library, the _Chronicle of Justinger and Schilling_.

COIN from a treasure hidden during the siege of SIANG-YANG in 1268-73, and lately discovered in that city.

Island MONASTERIES on the YANG-TZU KIANG; viz.:--