The.
Burkan Kaldun.
Burma (Or Ava), King Of (See Also Mien.).
Burnell, Arthur.
Burning The Dead, See Cremation.
- - Heretical Books.
- - Paper-money, etc., at funerals.
- - Widows in South India.
Burrough, Christopher.
Burton, Captain R.F.
Bushell, Dr. S.W., his
Visit to Shang-tu,
on the Khitan Scripts;
Tangut rulers;
orders for post-horses.
Butchers, in Kashmir,
Tibet;
S. India.
Butiflis (Mutfili).
Butler, Hudibras.
Buyid dynasty.
Ca' Polo, Ca' Milion, Corte del Millioni, the house of the
Polos at Venice.
Caaju, castle of.
Cabs, Peking.
Cacanfu (Hokiang-fu).
Cachanfu (P'uchau-fu, Ho-chung-fu).
Cachar Modun.
Cachilpatnam.
Cadmia.
Caesalpinia; and see Brazil.
Caesarea of Cappadocia (Casaria, Kaisariya).
Caichu, castle of (Kiai-chau, or Hiai-chau?).
Caidu, see Kaidu.
Caiju, on the Hwang-Ho.
- - on the Kiang, Kwachau.
Cail (Kayal),
a great port of Commerce;
the king;
identified;
meaning of name;
remains of.
Caindu (K'ien-ch'ang), a region of Eastern Tibet.
Caingan (Ciangan, Kiahing).
Cairo,
museum at;
ventilators at. (See Babylon.).
Caiton, see Zayton.
Cala Ataperistan (Kala' Atishparastan), "Castle of the Fire Worshippers".
Calachan (Kalajan).
Calaiate, Calatu, see Kalhat.
Calamanz, the word.
Calamina, city.
Caldwell, Rev. Dr. R., on devil-dancing among the Shanars,
on name of Ceylon;
on Shahr-Mandi and Sundara Pandi;
on the Tower at Negapatam;
etymology of Chilaw;
on Pacauta;
Govis;
singular custom of arrest;
rainy season;
food of horses;
Shanar devil-images;
choiach;
Cail, or Kayal city;
Kolkhoi;
King Ashar of Cail;
Kollam;
Pinati;
etymology of Sapong;
Cape Comorin.
Calendar, Ecclesiastical Buddhist,
the Tartar;
of Brahmans;
of Documents relating to Marco Polo and his family.
Calicut,
King of, and his costume.
Calif, see Khalif.
Caligine, Calizene (Khalij, a canal from Nile).
Camadi (City of Dakianus) ruined.
Cambaluc (Khanbaligh, or Peking), capital of Cathay,
Kublai's return thither after defeating Nayan;
the palace;
the city;
its size, walls, gates, and streets, the Bell Tower, etc.;
period of khan's stay there;
its suburbs and hostelries;
cemeteries, women, patrols;
its traffic;
the Emperor's Mint;
palace of the Twelve Barons;
roads radiating from;
astrologers of.
Cambay (Cambaet, Cambeth, Kunbayat), kingdom of.
Cambuscan, of Chaucer, corruption of Chinghiz.
Camel-bird, see Ostrich.
Camels, mange treated with oil,
camlets from wool of;
white;
incensing;
alleged to be eaten in Madagascar;
really eaten in Magadoxo;
ridden in war.
Camexu, Kamichu, see Campichu.
Camlets (cammellotti).
Camoens.
Camphor (Laurus Camphora) trees in Fo-kien.
- - of Sumatra,
Fansuri;
earliest mention of:
superstitions regarding;
description of the tree, Dryabalanops Camphora;
value attached by Chinese to;
recent prices of;
its use with betel.
- - oil.
Campichu (Kanchau), city of.
Camul (Kamul), province.
Camut, fine shagreen leather.
Canal, Grand, of China.
construction of.
Canale, Cristoforo, MS.
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