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. 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.
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