Of Polo.
Cubeb Pepper.
Cubits, Astronomical Altitude Estimated By.
Cublay, See Kublai.
Cucintana.
Cudgel, Tartars' Use Of.
Cuiju (Kwei-Chau)
, Province.
Cuinet, Vital, on Turkman villages,
on Mosul Kurds.
Cuirbouly.
Cuju.
Cuncun (Han-Chung) province.
Cunningham, General A.
Cups, flying.
Curds and Curdistan.
Currency, copper token, in India,
salt;
leather;
Cowrie, see Cowries.
Currency, paper, in China,
attempt to institute in Persia;
alluded to.
Current, strong south along East Coast of Africa.
Currents, Cape of, or Corrientes.
Curtains, Persian.
Curzola Island, Genoese victory at,
Polo's galley at;
map of.
Curzon, Lord,
list of Pamirs.
- - Hon. R., on invention of printing.
Customs, Custom-houses.
Cutch pirates.
Cuxstac, Kuhestec.
Cuy Khan (Kuyuk).
Cycle, Chinese.
Cynocephali, the.
Cypresses, sacred, of the Magians.
Cyprus.
Cyrus, his use of camels in battle near Sardis.
Dabul.
Dadian, title of Georgian kings.
Da Gama.
Dagroian, kingdom of, in Sumatra,
probable position of.
Dailiu (Tali).
Daitu, Taidu, Tatu (Peking), Kublai's new city of Cambaluc.
Dakianus, city of (Camadi).
Dalada, tooth relique of Buddha.
Dalai Lama, with four hands.
D'Alboquerque.
Dalivar, Dilivar, Dilawar (Lahore), a province of India.
Dalmian.
Damas.
Damascus,
siege of.
Damasks, with cheetas in them,
with giraffes.
(see also Patterns.).
Damghan.
Dancing dervishes.
Dancing girls, in Hindu temples.
Dandolo, Andrea, Admiral of Venetian fleet at Curzola,
his captivity and suicide;
funeral at Venice.
D'Anghieria, Pietro Martire.
Dantapura.
Dante, number of MSS.,
does not allude to Polo;
Convito.
D'Anville's Map.
Darabjird.
Darah.
Darapur.
Dardas, stuff embroidered in gold.
Dariel, Pass of (Gate of the Alans).
Darius,
the Golden King.
Dark Ocean of the South.
Darkness, magical.
- - land of,
how the Tartars find their way out;
the people and their peltry;
Alexander's legendary entrance into;
Dumb trade of.
Darraj, black partridge, its peculiar call.
Daruna, salt mines.
Darwaz.
Dasht, or Plain, of Baharak.
Dashtab, hot springs.
Dasht-i-Lut (Desert of Lut).
Dashtistan tribe and district.
Dates (chronology) in Polo's book, generally erroneous.
- - (trees or fruit),
Basra;
Bafk;
Reobarles, province;
Formosa Plain;
Hormos;
wine of;
diet of fish, etc.
Daughters of Marco Polo.
D'Avezac, M.
David, king of Abyssinia.
David, king of Georgia (Dawith).
Davids, Professor T.W. Rhys, Buddhist Birth Stories.
Davis, Sir John F.
Dawaro.
Daya.
Dead, disposal of the, in Tangut,
at Cambaluc;
in Coloman;
in China;
in Dagroian;
by the Battas.
- - burning of the, see Cremation.
eating the, see Cannibalism.
De Barros,
on Java;
Singhapura;
Janifs.
Debt, singular arrest for.
Decima, or Tithe on bequest.
Decimal organisation of Tartar armies.
Decius, Emperor.
Deghans, Dehgans.
Dehanah, village.
Deh Bakri.
De la Croix, Petis.
Delhi, Sultans of.
D'Ely, Mount, see Eli.
Demoiselle Crane, anthropoides virgo.
Deogir.
Derbend, Wall of (see also Iron Gate of.).
Deserts, haunted.
Deserts of Kerman or of Lut,
of Khorasan;
of Charchan;
Lop (Gobi);
Kharakorum.
Desgodins, Abbe.
Despina Khatun.
Devadasi.
Devapattan.
Deveria, G.
Devil-dancing.
Devil trees.
Devils, White.
D'Evreux, Father Yves.
Dhafar (Dofar, Thafar),
its incense;
two places of the name.
Dharani, mystic charms.
Dhulkarnain (Alex.), see Zulkarnain.
Dialects, Chinese.
Diamonds in India, how found,
mines of;
diffusion of legend about.
"Diex Terrien".
Dilawar, Polo's Dihar.
Dimitri II., Thawdadebuli, king of Georgia.
Dinar, see Bezant.
Dinar of Red Gold.
Dinh Tien-hwang, king of An-nam.
Diocletian.
Dioscorides insula.
Dir, chief town of Panjkora.
Dirakht-i-Fazl.
Dirakht-i-Kush.
Dirawal, ancient capital of the Bhattis.
Dirhem-Kub, Shah Mahomed, founder of Hormuz dynasty.
Dish of Sakya or of Adam.
Diu City.
Diul-Sind, Lower Sind.
Divination by twigs or arrows.
Dixan, branding with cross at.
Dizabulus, pavilion of.
Dizful River.
Djao (Chao) Namian Sume (Kaipingfu).
Djaya, turquoises.
Doctors at Kinsay.
Dofar, see Dhafar.
Dogana,
conjectures as to.
Doghabah River.
Dog-headed races.
Dogs, the Khan's mastiffs,
of Tibet;
fierce in Cuiju.
Dog-sledging in Far North,
notes on dogs.
Dolfino, Ranuzzo, husband of Polo's daughter, Moreta.
Dolonnur.
Dominicans, sent with Polos but turn back.
D' or plain, the expression.
Dorah Pass.
Doria, family at Meloria.
- - Lampa,
Admiral of Genoese Fleet sent to Adriatic;
his victory;
his tomb and descendants;
at Meloria with six sons.
- - Octaviano, death of.
- - Tedisio, exploring voyage of.
Dorje.
D'Orleans, Prince Henri.
Douglas, Rev. Dr. C.
Doyley, Sir Fulke.
Dragoian (Ta-hua-Mien).
Draps entaillez.
Drawers, enormous, of Badakhshan women.
Dreams, notable.
Drums, sound of in certain sandy districts.
Dryabalanops Camphora.
Dua Khan.
Du Bose, Rev. H.C.
Ducat, or sequin.
Dudley, Arcano del Mare.
Duel, mode in S. India of.
Dufour, on mediaeval artillery.
Duhalde, Plan of Ki-chau,
or T'si-ning chau.
Dukuz Khatun.
Dulcarnon (Zulkarnain).
Dulites.
Dumas, Alexander.
Dumb trade.
Duncan, Rev. Moir.
Dungen (Tungani), or converts.
Duplicates in geography.
Dupu.
Duerer's Map of Venice, so-called.
Durga Temple.
Dursamand.
Dushab, sweet liquor or syrup.
Dust-storms.
Duties, on Great Kiang,
on goods at Kinsay and Zayton;
on horses;
at Hormuz.
(See also Customs.).
Dutthagamini, king of Ceylon.
Dwara Samudra.
Dzegun-tala, name applied to Mongolia.
Dzungaria.
Eagle mark on shoulder of Georgian kings.
Eagles, trained to kill large game.
- - white, in the Diamond Country.
Eagle-wood, origin of the name. (See Lign-aloes.).
Earth honoured.
East, its state, circa, 1260.
Ebony (bonus).
Edkins, Rev.
Edward I.
Edward II., correspondence with Tartar princes.
Effeminacy, in Chinese palaces.
Eggs of Ruc and Aepyornis.
Egrigaia, province.
Ela (cardamom).
Elchidai.
Elenovka.
Elephantiasis.
Elephants, Kublai carried on a timber bartizan by four,
Kublai's;
the king of Mien's;
numbers of men alleged to be carried by;
how the Tartars routed;
wild
in Caugigu;
Champa;
Locac;
Sumatra;
Madagascar and Zanghibar;
trade in teeth of;
carried off by the Ruc;
in Zanghibar;
used in war;
an error;
Nubian;
fable about;
not bred in Abyssinia;
training of African;
war of the.
Eli, Ely, Elly (Hili), kingdom of.
Elias, Ney.
Elixir vitae of the Jogis.
Elliot, Sir Walter.
Emad, Ed-din Abu Thaher, founder of the Kurd dynasty.
Embroidery of silk at Kerman,
leather in Guzerat.
Empoli, Giovanni d'.
Empusa, the Arabian Nesnas.
Enchanters, at Socotra.
Enchantments, of the Caraonas.
(See also Conjurers, Socerers.).
Engano Island, legend.
Engineering feat.
Engineers, their growing importance in Middle Ages.
England, Kublai's message to king of,
correspondence of Tartar princes with kings of.
English trade and character in Asia.
Enlightenment, Land of.
Erba, poisonous plant or grass.
Erculin, Arculin (an animal).
Erdeni Tso (Erdenidsu), or Erdeni Chao Monastery.
Eremites (Rishis), of Kashmir.
Erguiul, province.
Erivan.
Erkeun, (Ye li ke un), Mongol for Christians.
Ermine.
Erzinjan, Erzinga, Eriza (Arzinga).
Erzrum (Arziron).
Eschiel, the word.
Esher (Shehr, Es-shehr),
trade with India, incense, Ichthyophagi;
singular sheep.
Essentemur (Isentimur), Kublai's grandson, king of Carajan.
Estimo, Venetian, or forced loan.
Etchmiadzin Monastery.
Ethiopia and India, confused.
Ethiopian sheep.
Etiquette of the Mongol Court.
Etymologies,
Balustrade;
buckram;
Avigi;
Geliz (Ghelle);
Jatolic;
muslin;
baudekins;
cramoisy;
ondanique;
zebu;
carbine;
Dulcarnon;
balas;
azure and lazuli;
None;
Mawmet and Mummery;
salamander;
berrie;
barguerlac;
S'ling;
siclatoun;
Argon;
Tungani;
Guasmul;
chakor;
Jadu and Yadah;
Tafur;
Bacsi;
Sensin;
P'ungyi;
carquois;
Keshikan;
vernique;
camut, borgal, shagreen;
Chinuchi or Chunichi;
Toscaol;
Bularguchi;
Fondaco;
Bailo;
comerque;
porcelain;
Sangon;
Faghfur;
Manjanik, mangonel, mangle, etc.;
galingale;
Chini and Misri;
Satin;
eagle-wood, aloes-wood;
Bonus, Calamanz;
benzoni;
china pagoda;
Pacauca;
Balanjar, a-muck;
Pariah;
Govi;
Avarian;
Abraiaman;
Choiach;
proques;
Tembul and Betel;
Sappan and Brazil;
Balladi;
Belledi;
Indigo baccadeo;
Gatpaul, baboon;
Salami cinnamon;
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