NOTE. - Shibrgan, and the route followed. Dried Melons.
XXVII. - OF THE CITY OF BALC
NOTES. - 1. Balkh. 2. Country meant by Dogana. 3. Lions in the Oxus
Valley.
XXVIII. - OF TAICAN, AND THE MOUNTAINS OF SALT. ALSO OF THE PROVINCE OF
CASEM
NOTES. - 1. Talikan. 2. Mines of Rock-salt. 3. Ethnological
characteristics. 4. Kishm. 5. Porcupines. 6. Cave dwellings. 7. Old and
New Capitals of Badakhshan.
XXIX. - OF THE PROVINCE OF BADASHAN
NOTES. - 1. Dialects of Badakhshan. Alexandrian lineage of the Princes.
2. Badakhshan and the Balas Ruby. 3. Azure Mines. 4. Horses of
Badakhshan. 5. Naked Barley. 6. Wild sheep. 7. Scenery of Badakhshan.
8. Repeated devastation of the Country from War. 9. Amplitude of
feminine garments.
XXX. - OF THE PROVINCE OF PASHAI
NOTE. - On the country intended by this name.
XXXI. - OF THE PROVINCE OF KESHIMUR
NOTES. - 1. Kashmir language. 2. Kashmir Conjurers. (See App. L. 2.)
3. Importance of Kashmir in History of Buddhism. 4. Character of the
People. 5. Vicissitudes of Buddhism in Kashmir. 6. Buddhist practice
as to slaughter of animals. 7. Coral.
XXXII. - OF THE GREAT RIVER OF BADASHAN; AND PLAIN OF PAMIER
NOTES. - 1. The Upper Oxus and Wakhan. The title Nono, (See App. L.
3.) 2. The Plateau of Pamir. (See App. L. 4 and 5.) The Great Wild
Sheep. Fire at great altitudes. 3. Bolor.
XXXIII. - OF THE KINGDOM OF CASCAR
NOTE. - Kashgar.
XXXIV. - OF THE GREAT CITY OF SAMARCAN
NOTES. - 1. Christians in Samarkand. 2. Chagatai's relation to Kublai
mis-stated. 3. The Miracle of the Stone.
XXXV. - OF THE PROVINCE OF YARCAN
NOTE. - Yarkand. Goitre prevalent there.
XXXVI. - OF A PROVINCE CALLED COTAN
NOTES. - 1. Government. 2. "Adoration of Mahommet." 3. Khotan.
XXXVII. - OF THE PROVINCE OF PEIN
NOTES. - 1. Position of Pein (App. L. 6.) 2. The Yu or Jade. 3. Temporary
marriages.
XXXVIII. - OF THE PROVINCE OF CHARCHAN
NOTE. - Position of Charchan and Lop.
XXXIX. - OF THE CITY OF LOP, AND THE GREAT DESERT
NOTES. - 1. Geographical discrepancy. 2. Superstitions as to Deserts:
their wide diffusion. The Sound of Drums on certain sandy acclivities.
3. Sha-chau to Lob-nor.
XL. - CONCERNING THE GREAT PROVINCE OF TANGUT
NOTES. - 1. Tangut. 2. Buddhism encountered here. 3. Kalmak superstition,
the "Heaven's Ram." 4. Chinese customs described here. 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.
