5. Mongol Disposal Of The Dead.

6.

Superstitious practice of avoiding to carry out the dead by the house-door; its wide diffusion.

XLI. - OF THE PROVINCE OF CAMUL

NOTES. - 1. Kamul. 2. Character of the people. 3. Shameless custom. 4. Parallel.

XLII. - OF THE PROVINCE OF CHINGINTALAS

NOTES. - 1. The Country intended. 2. Ondanique. 3. Asbestos Mountain. 4. The four elements. 5 and 6. The Story of the Salamander. Asbestos fabrics.

XLIII. - OF THE PROVINCE OF SUKCHUR

NOTES. - 1. Explanatory. 2. The City of Suhchau. 3. Rhubarb country. 4. Poisonous pasture.

XLIV. - OF THE CITY OF CAMPICHU

NOTES. - 1. The City of Kanchau. 2. Recumbent Buddhas. 3. Buddhist Days of Special Worship. 4. Matrimonial Customs. 5. Textual.

XLV. - OF THE CITY OF ETZINA

NOTES. - 1. Position of Yetsina. 2. Textual. 3. The Wild Ass of Mongolia.

XLVI. - OF THE CITY OF CARACORON

NOTES. - 1. Karakorum. 2. Tartar. 3. Chorcha. 4. Prester John.

XLVII. - OF CHINGHIS, AND HOW HE BECAME THE FIRST KAAN OF THE TARTARS

NOTES. - 1. Chronology. 2. Relations between Chinghiz and Aung Khan, the Prester John of Polo.

XLVIII. - HOW CHINGHIS MUSTERED HIS PEOPLE TO MARCH AGAINST PRESTER JOHN

XLIX. - HOW PRESTER JOHN MARCHED TO MEET CHINGHIS

NOTES. - 1. Plain of Tanduc. 2. Divination by Twigs and Arrows.

L. - THE BATTLE BETWEEN CHINGHIS KAAN AND PRESTER JOHN. DEATH OF CHINGHIS

NOTE. - Real circumstances and date of the Death of Chinghiz.

LI. - OF THOSE WHO DID REIGN AFTER CHINGHIS KAAN, AND OF THE CUSTOMS OF THE TARTARS

NOTES.

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