sy_.

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.

Palace at Khan-baligh. From the _Livre des Merveilles_.

The WINTER PALACE at PEKING. Borrowed from _Fergusson's History of
Architecture_.

View of the "GREEN MOUNT." From a photograph kindly lent to the present
Editor by Count de SEMALLE.

The _Yuean ch'eng_. From a photograph kindly lent to the present Editor by
Count de SEMALLE.

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