Island of Kish. 3. Basra.
4. Baldachins and other silk textures; Animal patterns. 5, 6. Hulaku's
Expedition. 7. The Death of the Khalif Mosta'sim. 8. Froissart.
VII. - HOW THE CALIF OF BAUDAS TOOK COUNSEL TO SLAY ALL THE CHRISTIANS IN
HIS LAND
NOTES. - 1. Chronology. 2. "Ses Regisles et ses Casses."
VIII. - HOW THE CHRISTIANS WERE IN GREAT DISMAY BECAUSE OF WHAT THE CALIF
HAD SAID
NOTE. - The word "cralantur."
IX. - HOW THE ONE-EYED COBLER WAS DESIRED TO PRAY FOR THE CHRISTIANS
X. - HOW THE PRAYER OF THE ONE-EYED COBLER CAUSED THE MOUNTAIN TO MOVE
NOTE. - The Mountain Miracle.
XI. - OF THE NOBLE CITY OF TAURIS
NOTES. - 1. Tabriz. 2. Cremesor. 3. Traffic at Tabriz. 4. The Torizi.
5. Character of City and People.
XII. - OF THE MONASTERY OF SAINT BARSAMO ON THE BORDERS OF TAURIS
NOTE. - The Monastery of Barsauma.
XIII. - OF THE GREAT COUNTRY OF PERSIA; WITH SOME ACCOUNT OF THE THREE
KINGS
NOTES. - 1. Kala' Atishparastan. 2. The Three Kings.
XIV. - HOW THE THREE KINGS RETURNED TO THEIR OWN COUNTRY
NOTES. - 1. The three mystic Gifts. 2. The Worshipped Fire. 3. Savah and
Avah. The Legend in Mas'udi. Embellishments of the Story of the Magi.
XV. - OF THE EIGHT KINGDOMS OF PERSIA, AND HOW THEY ARE NAMED
NOTES. - 1. The Eight Kingdoms. 2. Export of Horses, and Prices.
3. Persian Brigands. 4. Persian wine.
XVI. - CONCERNING THE GREAT CITY OF YASDI
NOTES. - 1. Yezd. 2. Yezd to Kerman. The Woods spoken of.
XVII. - CONCERNING THE KINGDOM OF KERMAN
NOTES. - 1. City and Province of Kerman. 2. Turquoises. 3. Ondanique or
Indian Steel. 4. Manufactures of Kerman. 5. Falcons.
XVIII. - OF THE CITY OF CAMADI AND ITS RUINS; ALSO TOUCHING THE CARAUNA
ROBBERS
NOTES. - 1. Products of the warmer plains. 2. Humped oxen and fat-tailed
sheep. 3. Scarani. 4. The Karaunahs and Nigudarian Bands.
5. Canosalmi.
XIX. - OF THE DESCENT TO THE CITY OF HORMOS
NOTES. - 1. Site of Old Hormuz and Geography of the route from Kerman to
Hormuz. 2. Dates and Fish Diet. 3. Stitched Vessels. "One rudder," why
noticed as peculiar. 4. Great heat at Hormuz. 5. The Simum. 6. History
of Hormuz, and Polo's Ruomedan Acomat. 7. Second Route between Hormuz
and Kerman.
XX. - OF THE WEARISOME AND DESERT ROAD THAT HAS NOW TO BE TRAVELLED
NOTES. - 1. Kerman to Kubenan. 2. Desert of Lut. 3. Subterraneous Canals.
XXI. - CONCERNING THE CITY OF COBINAN AND THE THINGS THAT ARE MADE THERE
NOTES. - 1. Kuh-Banan. 2. Production of Tutia.
XXII. - OF A CERTAIN DESERT THAT CONTINUES FOR EIGHT DAYS' JOURNEY
NOTES. - 1. Deserts of Khorasan. 2. The Arbre Sol or Arbre Sec.
XXIII. - CONCERNING THE OLD MAN OF THE MOUNTAIN
NOTE. - The Assassins, Hashishin, or Mulahidah.
XXIV. - HOW THE OLD MAN USED TO TRAIN HIS ASSASSINS
NOTES. - 1. The story widely spread. Notable murders by the Sectaries.
2. Their different branches.
XXV. - HOW THE OLD MAN CAME BY HIS END
NOTE. - History of the apparent Destruction of the Sect by Hulaku; its
survival to the present time.
