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.
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