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LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.
ILLUSTRATIONS IN TEXT.
EAST ASIA. | ||
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1. | Itinerary of H'wen-Tsang | 6 |
2. | Encroachments of Asiatic Russia on China | 8 |
3. | Itineraries of the Tibetan Explorers | 16 |
4. | Upper Kara-kash Valley | 19 |
5. | Lake Dangra-yum and Targot Mountains | 20 |
6. | Tengri-nor | 21 |
7. | Mount Kailas and the Four Sacred Rivers | 25 |
8. | The Mansaraûr Basin | 26 |
9. | Lake Pang-kong: Encampment of the English Expedition of 1871 | 23 |
10. | Lake Pang-kong | 29 |
11. | Lake Palti | 30 |
12. | Course of the Tsangbo | 32 |
13. | Course of the Tsangbo | 33 |
14. | Course of the Tsangbo | 34 |
15. | Course of the Tsangbo | 35 |
16. | Tibetan Ethnography | 43 |
17. | Prayer inscribed on a Rock | 45 |
18. | Tibetan Amulet | 46 |
19. | Lassa | 52 |
20. | Trade Routes of Tibet | 54 |
21. | Itineraries of the Tian-shan Nan-lu | 59 |
22. | The Tian-shan Nan-lu, from a Chinese Map | 61 |
23. | Lake Karashar | 63 |
24. | Lob-nor | 64 |
25. | Races of Chinese Turkestan | 68 |
26. | Routes from Kashgar to Ferghana | 70 |
27. | Khotan and the Southern Plateaux | 71 |
28. | Yarkand and Yangi-shahr | 73 |
29. | Sources of the Hoang-ho, from a Chinese Map | 76 |
30. | Kuku-nor | 77 |
31. | West End of the Great Wall | 82 |
32. | Fortified Villages near Lantchew, Province of Kansu | 84 |
33. | Oases of Barkul and Hami | 86 |
34. | Urumtsi, Turfan, and surrounding Mountains | 87 |
35. | Ebi-nor | 89 |
36. | Chuguchak and the Tarbagatai Range | 92 |
37. | Valley of the Tekes | 93 |
38. | Section of the Gobi, going East and West | 94 |
39. | View in the Gobi | 97 |
40. | Section of the Gobi between Urga and Kalgan | 98 |
41. | South-east Corner of the Mongolian Plateau | 99 |
42. | The Great Wall, View taken at the Nankow Pass | 102 |
43. | Mongol Invasions and Conquests of their Successors | 104 |
44. | Inhabitants of Mongolia | 105 |
45. | Kobdo Plateau | 111 |
46. | Urga | 112 |
47. | Mongolian Highways | 113 |
48. | Mouth of the Liao-he | 118 |
49. | Manchu Woman | 122 |
50. | Confluence of the Nonni and Sungari | 124 |
51. | Lower Tumen Valley and Possiet Bay | 126 |
52. | The Nine Provinces according to the Yukung | 129 |
53. | China according to the Native Geographers | 130 |
54. | Kiang-su, according to Martini | 131 |
55. | Isothermals of China | 133 |
56. | Range of the Chinese Fauna | 135 |
57. | Chinese Dialects | 139 |
58. | The Nine Sacred Mountains.—The Chew Epoch | 141 |
59. | The Taiki, or Magic Looking-glass | 143 |
60. | Buddhist Priest | 145 |
61. | The Goddess Kwanyin | 146 |
62. | Domestic Altar.—The Smiling Buddha | 148 |
63. | Regions wasted by the Mohammedan Insurrections | 150 |
64. | A Chinese Savant | 153 |
65. | Chinese Children | 154 |
66. | Terrace with Funeral Urns near Amoy | 156 |
67. | Manchu Lady | 157 |
68. | Lands wasted by the Taïping Insurrection | 160 |
69. | Routes of the Chief Modern Explorers in China | 161 |
70. | Range of the Floodings of the Lower Pechili | 163 |
71. | Successive Displacements of Peking | 165 |
72. | The High Street, Peking | 166 |
73. | The Temple of Heaven, Peking | |
74. | Celestial Sphere in the Old Observatory, Peking | 169 |
75. | Tientsin | 171 |
76. | The Lower Peï-ho | 172 |
77. | Old Shantung Strait | 175 |
78. | Tengchew and Miao-tao Archipelago | 176 |
79. | Chefu | 177 |
80. | Trans-Ordos | 180 |
81. | Cliffs of Yellow Earth on the Hoang-ho | 181 |