- Pamir.
5. - Number of Pamirs.
6. - Site of Pein.
7. - Fire-arms.
8. - La Couvade.
9. - Alacan.
10. - Champa.
11. - Ruck Quills.
12. - A Spanish Edition of Marco Polo.
13. - Sir John Mandeville.
1. - THE POLOS AT ACRE. (Vol. i. p. 19. Int.)
M. le Comte Riant (Itin. a Jerusalem, p. xxix.) from various data
thinks the two sojourns of the Polos at Acre must have been between the
9th May, 1271, date of the arrival of Edward of England and of Tedaldo
Visconti, and the 18th November, 1271, time of the departure of Tedaldo.
Tedaldo was still in Paris on the 28th December, 1269, and he appears to
have left for the Holy Land after the departure of S. Lewis for Tunis (2nd
July, 1270). - H.C.
2. - SORCERY IN KASHMIR. (Vol. i. p. 166.)
In Kalhanda's Rajatarangini, A Chronicle of the Kings of Kasmir
translated by M.A. Stein, we read (Bk. IV. 94, p. 128): "Again the
Brahman's wife addressed him: 'O king, as he is famous for his knowledge
of charms (Kharkhodavidya), he can get over an ordeal with ease.'" Dr.
Stein adds the following note: "The practice of witchcraft and the belief
in its efficiency have prevailed in Kasmir from early times, and have
survived to some extent to the present day; comp. Buehler, Report, p.
24.... The term Kharkhoda, in the sense of a kind of deadly charm or
witchcraft, recurs in v. 239, and is found also in the Vijayesvaramah
(Adipur.), xi.
