Quotes:Yule, Sir Henry

Zirkoff, Boris

Yule, Sir Henry. British military man and writer, son of Maj. Wm. Yule in East India Service, b. at Inveresk, near Edinburgh, May 1, 1820; d. in London, Dec. 30, 1889. Educ. High School, Edin., Addiscombe and Chatham. Joined Bengal Engineers, 1840; served in Khasia Hills, Assam, and in both the Sikh Wars. Deputy consultant engineer for the railways, and Secretary to Col. A. Phayre’s mission to Ava, 1855. Was in Allahabad during the Mutiny. Member of the Council of India, 1875-89. Author of: Narrative of the Mission to the Court of Ava, 1855.— Glossary of Anglo-Indian Words, or Hobson-Jobson, 1886.—Cathay, and the Way Thither, London, 1866; also 1913-16.—*Book of Ser Marco Polo, the Venetian, etc. Newly transl. and ed., with Notes, by Col. H. Yule. London: J. Murray, 1871; 2nd ed., 1875; 3rd ed., 1902; repr., 1929; also in Universal Library, New York, 1931. This work has been greatly used by H.P.B. mainly in Isis Unveiled.

Source: Boris de Zirkoff, «H. P. Blavatsky Collected Writings», vol. 2, p. 550