By.
- - Martino Da, French Chronicle Of Venice By.
Cananor, Kingdom.
Cananore.
Canara.
Cancamum.
Canela Brava.
Canes, Polo's Name For Bamboos.
Cannibalism,
ascribed to Tibetans, Kashmiris, etc;
to Hill-people in Fo-kien;
to islanders in Seas of China and India;
In Sumatra;
regulations of the Battas;
ascribed to Andaman islanders.
Cannibals, i.e. Caribs.
Canonical Hours.
Cansay, see Kinsay.
Canton.
Cape Comorin, see Comari; Temple at.
- - Corrientes (of Currents).
- - Delgado.
- - of Good Hope.
Capidoglio (Capdoille), sperm-whale.
Cappadocian horses.
Capus, G.
Caracoron (Kara Korum).
Carajan (Caraian, Karajang, or Yun-nan), province.
Caramoran River (Hwang-Ho).
Carans, or Scarans.
Caraonas (Karaunahs), a robber tribe.
Carats.
Carbine, etymology of.
Cardinal's Wit.
Caribs, i.e. cannibals.
Carpets,
of Turcomania (Turkey);
Persian;
Kerman.
Carriages,
at Kinsay;
Chinese.
Carrion, shot from engines.
Carta Catalana, Catalan Map of 1375.
Carte, a la.
Carts, Mongol.
Casan, see Ghazan Khan.
Casaria (Caesarea of Cappadocia).
Cascar (Kashgar),
Chaukans of.
Casem, see Kishm.
Caspian Sea (Sea of Ghel or Ghelan),
ancient error about;
its numerous names.
Cassay, see Kinsay.
Cassia.
- - buds.
- - fistula.
Castaldi, Panfilo, his alleged invention of movable types.
Castambol.
Castelli, P. Cristoforo di.
Casvin (Kazvin), a kingdom of Persia.
Catalan Navy.
Cathay (Northern China),
origin of name;
coal in;
idols;
Cambaluc, the capital of, see Cambaluc;
Cathayans, v. Ahmad;
their wine;
astrologers;
religion;
politeness, filial duty, gaol deliveries, gambling.
Catholics,
Catholicos, of Sis;
of the Nestorians.
Cators (chakors), great partridges.
Cat's Head Tablet.
Cats in China.
Caucasian Wall.
Caugigu, province.
Caulking, of Chinese ships.
Cauly, Kauli (Corea).
Causeway, south of the Yellow River.
Cauterising children's heads.
Cave-houses.
Cavo de Eli.
- - de Diab, ii. 417n.
Cayu (Kao-yu).
Celtic Church.
Census, of houses in Kinsay,
tickets.
Ceremonial of Mongol Court, see Etiquette.
Ceylon (Seilan),
circuit of;
etymology of;
customs of natives;
mountain of Adam's (alias Sagamoni Borcan's) Sepulchre;
history of Buddha;
origin of idolatry;
subject to China.
Ceylon, King of, his pearl-ponds.
Chachan (Charchan, Charchand).
Chagatai (Sigatay), Kublai's uncle, son of Chinghiz.
Chaghan-Jang.
Chaghan-Kuren.
Chaghan-Nor ("White Lake"), N.E. of Kamul.
- - (Chaghan, or Tsaghan Balghasun), site of Kublai's palace.
Chairs, silver.
Chakor (cator), great partridges.
Chalcedony and jasper.
Chalukya Malla kings.
Champa (Chamba), kingdom of,
Kublai's expedition;
the king and his wives;
products;
locality;
invaded by king of Lukyn.
Chandra Banu.
Chandu (Shangtu), city of peace of Kublai.
Changan.
Chang-chau (Chinginju).
- - in Fo-kien,
Zayton (?);
Christian remains at.
Ch'ang Ch'un, travels.
Changgan (Chang-ngan).
Chang-kia-Kau, the gate in the Great Wall.
Chang K'ien.
Chang-shan (Chanshan).
Ch'ang Te (the Chinese traveller), Si Shi Ki.
Chang Te-hui, a Chinese teacher.
Chang-y (Chenchu).
Chang Yao, Chinese general.
Chao de Bux (Cavo di Bussi), boxwood.
Chaohien, Sung Prince.
Chao-Khanahs, bank-note offices in Persia.
Chao Naiman Sume Khotan, or Shangtu, "city of the 108 temples".
Chao, paper-money.
Chao, title of Siamese and Shan Princes.
Chaotong.
Chapu.
Characters, written, four acquired by Marco Polo,
one in Manzi, but divers spoken dialects.
Charchan (Chachan of Johnson, Charchand).
Charcoal, store in Peking, palace garden of.
Charities, Kublai's,
Buddhistic and Chinese;
at Kinsay.
Charles VIII., of France.
Chau dynasty.
Chaucer, quoted.
Chaukans, temporary wives at Kashgar.
Chaul.
Cheapness in China.
Cheetas, or hunting leopards.
Cheh-kiang, cremation common during Sung dynasty in,
roads into Fo-kien from.
Cheinan, Gulf of.
Chenchau, or Iching hien.
Chenching (Cochin-China).
Chenchu (Chang-y), conspires with Vanchu v. Ahmad.
Ch'eng-ting fu.
Ch'eng-Tsu (Yung-lo), Emperor.
Ch'eng-tu (Sze-ch'wan).
Ch'engtu-fu (Sindafu).
Cheu, the Seven.
Chibai and Chiban.
Chichiklik Pass.
Chien-ch'ang (Caindu). (See K'ien ch'ang.).
Chihli, plain of.
Chilaw.
Chilianwala, battlefield of.
Chilu-ku, last Karakhitai king.
Chin, Sea of.
China,
Imperial Maritime Customs Returns for 1900;
Dominicans in;
paved roads in;
relations with Korea and Japan;
the name;
king of Malacca at Court of;
trade from Arabia to;
from Sofala in Africa.
(See also Cathay and Manzi.).
Chinangli (T'sinan-fu).
Chinar, Oriental planes.
Chinchau, Chincheo, Chinchew, Chwanchew, Tswanchau, see Zayton.
Chinese,
Polo ignorant of the languages;
epigrams;
funeral and mourning customs;
feeling towards Kublai;
religion and irreligion;
their politeness and filial piety;
gambling;
character for integrity;
written character and varieties of dialect;
ships;
pagodas at Negapatam and elsewhere;
coins found in Southern India;
pottery;
trade and intercourse with Southern India.
Chinghian-fu (Chinkiang-fu).
Chinghiz Khan,
reported to be a Christian;
Aung Khan's saying of;
his use of Uighur character;
Erzrum taken by;
harries Balkh;
captures Talikan;
ravages Badakhshan;
his respect for Christians;
subjugates Kutchluk Khan;
his campaigns in Tangut;
Rubruquis' account of;
made king of the Tartars;
his system of conquests;
and Prester John;
divining by twigs - presage of victory;
defeats and slays Prester John;
his death and burial-place;
his aim at conquest of the world;
his funeral;
his army;
defeats the Merkits;
relations between Prester John's and his families;
the Horiad tribe;
his prophecy about Kublai;
rewards his captains;
captures Peking;
defeats and slays Taiyang Khan;
his alleged invasion of Tibet;
his mechanical artillery;
his cruelty;
Table of Genealogy of his House.
Chinghiz Tora.
Ching-hoang tower at Hangchau-fu.
Chinginju (Chang-chau).
Chingintalas, province,
its identification.
Chingkim, Chinkin, Chimkin, Kublai's favourite son and heir-apparent,
his palace.
Chingsang, Ching-siang (Chinisan), title of a Chief Minister of State.
Chingting-fu (Acbaluc).
Chingtsu, or Yung-lo, Emperor.
Chini, coarse sugar.
Chinju (Tinju).
Chin-tan, or Chinasthana, Chinese etymology of.
Chinuchi, Cunichi, Kublai's Masters of the Hounds.
Chipangu (Japan),
account of Kublai's expedition v.;
its disasters;
history of expedition;
relations with China and Korea.
Chitral.
Chloroxylon Dupada.
Cho-chau (Juju).
Choiach, the term.
Chola, or Sola-desam (Soli, Tanjore).
Chonka (Fo-kien), kingdom of,
explanation of name.
Chonkwe
Chorcha, see Churchin
Christian, astrologers;
churches in China, early;
inscription of Singanfu;
Alans in the Mongol service.
Christianity, attributed to Chinghizide princes,
Kublai's views on.
- - former, of Socotra.
Christians, of the Greek rite, Georgians,
and Russians;
Jacobite and Nestorian, at Mosul;
among the Kurds;
and the Khalif of Baghdad - the miracle of the mountain and the
one-eyed cobbler;
Kashgar;
in Samarkand;
the miracle of the stone removed;
Yarkand;
Tangut;
Chingintalas;
Suh-chau;
Kan-chau;
in Chinghiz's camp;
Erguiul and Sinju;
Egrigaia;
Tenduc;
Nayan and the Khan's decision;
at Kublai's Court;
in Yun-nan;
Cacanfu;
Yang-chau;
churches at Chin-kiang fu;
at Kinsay;
St. Thomas';
Coilum;
Male and Female Islands;
Socotra;
Abyssinia and fire baptism;
of the Girdle;
in Lac (Wallachia).
Chrocho, the Rukh (q.v.).
Chronology and chronological data discussed,
first journey of the Polos;
war between Barka and Hulaku;
Polos' stay at Bokhara;
their departure and their second journey from Acre;
their return voyage and arrival in Persia;
story of Nigudar;
Hormuz princes;
destruction of Ismailites;
history of Chinghiz;
Kublai's birth and accession;
Nayan' rebellion;
visit to Yun-nan;
battle with the king of Mien;
wars between China and Burma;
value of Indo-Chinese;
conquest of S. China;
capture of Siang-yang;
Kublai's dealings with Japan;
with Champa;
Marco's visit to Japan;
Kublai's Java expedition;
review of the Malay;
events in Ma'bar;
King Gondophares;
cessation of Chinese navigation to India;
Abyssinia;
Kaidu's wars;
Mongol revolutions in Persia, notes from;
wars of Toktai and Noghai.
(see also Dates.)
Chrysostom.
Chuchu, in Kiang-si.
Chughis, see Jogis.
Chung-Kiang.
Chungkwe, "Middle Kingdom".
Chung-tu, or Yen-King (Peking, see Cambaluc).
Ch'ura.
Churches, Christian, in Kashgar,
Samarkand;
Egrigaia;
Tenduc;
early, in China;
Yang-chau;
Chin-kiang fu;
Kinsay;
Zayton;
St. Thomas's;
Coilum;
Socotra.
Churchin, or Niuche, Churche, Chorcha (the Manchu Country).
Cielstan, Suolstan (Shulistan).
Cinnamon, Tibet,
Caindu;
Ceylon;
story in Herodotus of;
Malabar.
Circumcision of Socotrans,
forcible, of a bishop;
of Abyssinians.
Cirophanes, or Syrophenes, story of.
Civet, of Sumatra.
Clement IV., Pope.
Clepsydra.
Cloves,
in Caindu.
Coal (Polo's blackstone),
in Scotland in Middle Ages;
in Kinsay.
Cobbler, the one-eyed, and the miracle of the mountain.
Cobinan (Koh-Banan).
Cocachin (Kukachin), the Lady.
Cochin-China, the mediaeval Champa (q.v.).
Coco-nut (Indian nut).
Coco Islands, of Hiuen T'sang.
Cocos Islands.
Coeur de Lion, his mangonels.
Coffins, Chinese, in Tangut.
Cogachin (Hukaji), Kublai's son, King of Carajan.
Cogatai.
Cogatal, a Tartar envoy to the Pope.
Coiganju (Hwaingan-fu).
Coilum (Kollam, Kaulam, Quilon), kingdom of,
identity of meaning of name;
Church of St. George at;
modern state of;
Kublai's intercourse with.
Coilumin, columbino, colomni, so-called Brazil-wood,
ginger.
Coins of Cilician Armenia,
of Mosul;
Agathocles and Pantaleon;
Seljukian with Lion and Sun;
found at Siang-Yang;
King Gondophares;
Tartar heathen princes with Mahomedan and Christian formulae.
Coja (Koja), Tartar envoy from Persia to the Khan.
Cold, intense, in Kerman,
in Russia.
"Cold Mountains".
Coleridge, verses on Kublai's Paradise.
Coloman, province.
Colombino, see Coilumin.
Colon, see Coilum.
Colossal Buddhas, recumbent.
Columbum, see Coilum.
Columbus, Polo paralleled with,
remarks on.
Comania, Comanians.
Comari, Comori (Cape Comorin, Travancore),
temple at.
Combermere, Lord, prophecy applied to.
Comercque, Khan's custom-house.
Compartments, in hulls of ships.
Compass, Mariner's.
Competitive Examinations in beauty.
Conchi, King of the North.
Concubines, how the Khan selects.
Condor, its habits,
Temple's account of;
Padre Bolivar's of the African.
Condur and Sondur.
Condux, sable or beaver.
Conia, Coyne (Iconium).
Conjeveram.
Conjurers, the Kashmirian,
weather-;
Lamas' ex-feats.
(see also Sorcerers.).
Conosalmi (Kamasal).
Constantinople,
Straits of.
Convents, see Monasteries.
Cookery, Tartar horse.
Cooper, T.T., traveller on Tibetan frontier.
Copper, token currency of Mahomed Tughlak,
imported to Malabar;
to Cambay.
Coral, valued in Kashmir, Tibet, etc.
Corea (Kauli).
Corn, Emperor's store and distribution of.
Coromandel (Maabar), see Mabar.
Corsairs, see Pirates.
Corte del Milione, see Ca' Polo.
- - Sabbionera at Venice.
Cosmography, mediaeval.
Costus.
Cotan, see Khotan.
Cotton, stuffs of,
at Merdin;
in Persia;
at Kashgar;
Yarkand;
Khotan;
Pein;
Bengal;
bushes of gigantic size.
Counts in Vokhan,
at Dofar.
Courts of Justice, at Kinsay.
Couvade, custom of.
Cow-dung, its use in Maabar.
Cowell, Professor.
Cowries (porcelain shells, pig shells), used for money, etc.,
procured from Locac.
Cralantur, its meaning (?).
Cramoisy (quermesis).
Cranes, five kinds of.
Crawford, John.
Cremation,
in Middle Ages.
Cremesor, Hot Region (Garmsir).
Cribhoja (Cribhodja), country.
Crocodiles, see Alligators.
Cross, legend of the Tree of the,
gibes against, on Nayan's defeat;
on monument at Singanfu.
Crossbows.
Cruelties, Tartar.
Crusca MS.
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