an Oriental Miniature Painting.

Jerusalem and the Pilgrims' Ways to it, 12th century . . . . . . 109
From a Map of the 12th century at Brussels.

Two Emperors of Tartary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110
From the Catalan Map, 1375.

A Tartar Camp . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111
From the Borgian Map, 1453.

Initial Letter from the MS. of Rubruquis at Cambridge . . . . . . 113

How the Brothers Polo set out from Constantinople with their
nephew Marco for China . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116
From a Miniature Painting in 14th century _Livre des
Merveilles_.

Marco Polo lands at Ormuz . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117
From a Miniature in the _Livre des Merveilles_.

Kublai Khan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119
From an old Chinese Encyclopaedia at Paris.

Marco Polo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123
From a Woodcut in the first printed edition of MARCO POLO'S
_Travels_, 1477.

A Japanese Fight against the Chinese at the time when Marco Polo
first saw the Japanese . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125
From an ancient Japanese Painting.

Sir John Mandeville on his Travels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127
From a MS. in the British Museum.

An Emperor of Tartary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129
From the Map ascribed to SEBASTIAN CABOT, 1544.

A Caravan in Cathay . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131
From the Catalan Map, 1375.

The Turin Map of the World, 8th century . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134

A T-map, 10th century . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135

A T-map, 13th century . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135

The Kaiser holding the World . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136
From a 12th-century MS.

The "Anglo-Saxon" Map of the World, drawn about 990 A.D. . . . . 137
From the Cotton MSS. in the British Museum.

Africa--from Ceuta to Madeira . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141
From FRA MAURO'S Map, 1457.

The Voyage to Cape Blanco from Cape Bojador . . . . . . . . . . . 142
From FRA MAURO'S Map, 1457.

A Portion of Africa illustrating Cadamosto's Voyage beyond Cape
Blanco . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146
From FRA MAURO'S Map, 1457.

Sketch of Africa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147
From FRA M