(See Kinsay.).
Khitan, Khitai.
- - Character.
- - Dynasty Of Liao.
Khmer.
Khodabanda, Ilkhan Of Kerman.
Khojas, Name Of Modern Ismailite Sect.
Khorasan,
Province,
turquoises of.
Khormuzda, supreme deity of the Tartars.
Khotan (Cotan),
fruits;
routes between China and;
buried cities of;
its
Jade.
Khumbavati (Cambay).
Khumdan.
Khusru, Amir, Indian poet.
Khutuktai Setzen, Prince of the Ordos.
Khwarizm.
Kiacatu, see Kaikhatu.
Kiahing (Ciangan, Canigan).
Kiai- or Hiai-chau (Caichu).
Kiakhta.
Kia-k'ing, Emperor.
Kiang, the Great (Kian and Kian-Suy, and in its highest course Brius,
the Kinsha Kiang),
its vastness, and numerous craft;
steamers on;
its former debouchure to the south, and changes.
Kiang-Che,
limits of.
Kiang-Hung, Xieng-Hung.
Kiangka.
Kiang-mai, Xieng-mai, Zimme.
Kiangshan.
Kiangsi.
Kiang-su.
Kiang-suy (-shui) River.
Kiangtheu.
Kiang-Tung.
Kiao-chi (Tungking), Chinese etymology of.
Kia Tsing, Emperor, a great bridge builder.
Kichau Castle.
Kieh-Ch'a.
K'ien-ch'ang, Kiung-tu (Caindu).
Kien-chau.
Kien-kwe.
Kien-lung, Emperor.
Kien-ning fu (Kelinfu).
Kiepert, Map of Asia.
Kij-Makran (Kesmacoran).
Kila'-i-Gabr, "Gueber Castle".
Kilimanchi River.
Kiming shan Mountains, gold and silver mines.
Kimiz, kumiz (kemiz), mare's milk, - Tartar beverage.
Kin, or Golden Dynasty in N. China,
their paper-money;
story of their Golden King.
Kincha, Chinese name for Kipchak.
Kin-Chi, or Gold-Teeth (Zardandan).
King of the Abraiaman.
- - of England, Kublai's message to,
intercourse with Mongol princes.
- - of France, Kublai's message to.
- - of Spain, Kublai's message to.
- - Rev. C.W.
Kings of Maabar, the five brothers,
their mother's efforts to check their broils.
- - subordinate, or Viceroys, in China.
- - Tartar, of the Ponent.
Kingsmill, T.W.
King-te-chen, porcelain manufacture.
K'ing-yuean (Ning-po).
Kin-hwa fu.
Kinki, Kimkha.
Kinsay (King-sze, or "Capital," Khansa, Khinsa, Khingsai, Khanzai,
Cansay, Campsay),
formerly Lin-ngan now Hang-chau fu;
its surrender to Bayan;
extreme public security;
alleged meaning of the name;
described;
bridges;
hereditary trades, guilds and wealthy craftsmen and their dainty wives;
the lake, islands and garden-houses;
stone-towers - inhabitants' clothing and food;
guards and police regulations;
fires;
alarm towers, paved streets;
revenue;
pavements, public baths, port of Ganfu;
the province and other provinces of Manzi, garrisons;
horoscopes, funeral rites;
palace of the expelled king;
church, house registers;
hostel regulations;
canals;
markets and squares;
fruits and fish shops;
women of the town, physicians and astrologers, courts of justice;
vast consumption of pepper;
inhabitants' character - their behaviour to women and foreigners;
hatred of soldiers;
pleasures on the lake and in carriage excursions;
palace of the king;
the king's effeminacy and ruin;
tides;
plan of;
notices by various writers of;
wealth of;
ships.
Kin-sha Kiang, "River of Golden Sands" (upper branch of Great Kiang,
Brius).
Kinshan, see Golden Island.
Kinto, or Hintu, Mongol general.
Kipchak (Ponent), Southern Russia,
events related by Polo in;
sovereigns;
people of;
extent of empire.
Kirghiz Kazak.
Kirghiz, the.
Kiria.
Kirk, Sir John, and Raphia palm.
Kis, Kish, or Kais (Kisi), now Ghes, or Kem, island in Persian Gulf,
merchants;
described.
Kishik, Kishikan, Kizik, Keshikchi, see Keshican.
Kishm (Casem).
- - or Brakht (Oaracta), island in the Persian Gulf.
Kistna River.
Kitubuka, General.
Kiu-chau.
Kiulan (Quilon), see Coilum.
Kizil Irmak, the.
Kizil River.
Kneeling oxen.
Kobad, the Sassanian.
Kobdo.
Koh-Banan (Cobinan).
Koja (Coja), a Tartar envoy from Persia.
Kokcha River.
Kok-Tash, greenstone of Samarkand.
Kolastri, or Kolatiri Rajas.
Ko-li-ki-sze.
Kolkhoi of Ptolemy, identified.
Kollam, see Coilum.
Koloman, see Coloman.
Kolyma, bird-hunting at.
[Greek: Komakon].
Komar.
[Greek: Komaria akron].
Konar tree, Marco Polo's apples of Paradise.
Kondachi.
Konkan, Konkan-Tana.
Korano, epithet on Indo-Scythic coins.
Korea, History of.
Koresh king.
Kornish, or K'o-tow (Khen-theu).
Kosakio, a general against Japan.
Kosseir.
Kotcheres, Kurds of Mosul.
Kotlogh, or Kutlugh, Sultan of Kerman.
Kotlogh Shah, the Chaghataian prince.
Kotrobah Island.
Kouyunjik, sculptures at.
Kozlov, Lieutenant K.P., on the Lob-nor.
Kuang-chou.
Kubenan (Cobinan), a Kuh-banan "Hill of the Terebinths or Wild Pistachios".
Kublai (Cublay), Kaan, the Great Khan,
his envoys meet the two elder Polos;
receives and questions the Polos;
sends them as envoys to the Pope;
his desire for Christian teachers, and for oil from the lamp in the
Holy Sepulchre;
gives them a Golden Tablet;
his reception of the three Polos;
sends Marco on an embassy;
Marco grows in favour;
allows the Polos to depart with Tablets of Authority;
rumour of his death;
sends a napkin of asbestos to the Pope;
his greatness and power;
his milk libations;
his inscription at Shangtu;
Chinghiz's prophecy;
his lineage, age, and accession;
Nayan's revolt;
Nayan's defeat and death;
rebukes anti-Christian gibes;
returns to Cambaluc;
treats four religions with equal respect;
his views on Christianity;
how he rewards his captains;
his personal appearance;
his wives and ladies-in-waiting;
his palace at Cambaluc;
builds Cambaluc city;
his bodyguard;
order of his feasts;
celebration of his birthday;
his distribution of robes;
his New Year's feast;
his elephants;
the K'o-tow;
adopts Chinese ancestor-worship;
his game laws;
his hunting establishment;
his masters of hounds;
how he goes a-hunting;
how his year is spent;
Ahmad's influence, oppression, and death;
his treatment of Mahomedans;
his mint and paper-money;
his purchase of valuables;
his twelve great Barons;
his posts and runners;
remission of taxes;
his justice;
a tree planter;
his store of corn;
charity to the poor;
his astrologers;
gaol deliveries, and prohibition of gambling;
his early campaign in Yun-nan;
and the king of Mien and Bangala;
Litan's plot;
sends Bayan to invade Manzi;
his dealings with Bayan;
satisfied with the Polo's mangonels;
appoints Mar Sarghis governor of Chinghian-fu;
the city of Kinsay;
his revenue from Kinsay;
from Zayton;
his expedition against Chipangu (Japan);
sends force against Chamba;
attempts to gain Java;
his death;
sends to buy Ceylon ruby;
sends for religions of Sakya;
testifies to miraculous powers of Sakya's dish;
intercourse with Ma'bar;
with Kaulam;
missions to Madagascar;
Kaidu's wars with him.
- - Khan, territories and people subject to (Turkistan),
(Tangut and Mongolia);
(Tibetan frontier and Yun-nan);
(Western China);
(N. Eastern China);
(Manzi);
(Sinju);
(Caiju);
Chinghian-fu;
(Chinginju);
(Suju);
(Tanpigu);
(Chonka);
(Zayton);
(Chamba);
(Sumatra).
Kuche character.
Kudatku Bilik, an Uighur poem.
Kuhistan, or Hill country of Persia.
Kukachin, see Cocachin.
Kukin-Tana.
Kukju (Genkju), Kublai's son.
Kuku-Khotan (Blue Town), depot for Mongolian trade with China.
Ku-kwan, Customs' Barrier.
Kulab, lions in,
Salt Mines.
Kulan, Asinus Onager, the Gor Khar of Persia.
Kulasaikera.
Kumar, see Komar.
Kumhari, Kumari, see Comari.
Kumiz, kimiz (kemiz), Mare's milk, Tartar beverage,
sprinkling of.
Kummajar.
Kunburn Monastery.
Kunduz.
Kunduz (beaver or sable).
Kunduz-Baghlan.
Kung-ki-cheng (Fei-ch'eng).
Kungurats, Kunkurats (Ungrat), a Mongol tribe.
Kunichi (Cunichi, or Chinuchi), "The Keepers of the Mastiff Dogs".
Kuniyah (Conia), Iconium, Koniah.
Kunlun (Pulo Condore).
Kurd dynasty.
Kurdistan (Curdistan).
Kurds, the.
Kureh-i-Ardeshir (Kuwashir).
Kuria Maria Islands.
Kuridai, Kublai's son.
Kurkah, great drum.
Kurmishi.
Kurshids of Luristan.
Kurut (Curd).
Kus, Cos (in Egypt).
Kushluk, the Naiman.
Kutan, son of Okkodai.
Kutchluk Khan (Buddhist), Chief of the Naimans.
Kutuktemur, Kublai's son.
Kutulun, Princess.
Kuwinji, see Kaunchi.
Kuyuk Khan.
Kwa-chau (Caiju), at mouth of Great Canabon Yang-tse-Kiang.
Kwan Hsien.
Kwansinfu.
Kwawa, i.e. Java, etymology.
Kwei-chau (Cuiju).
Kwei-hwa-ch'eng, or Kuku Khotan.
Kweilei River.
Kyung-sang province.
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