3. Columbine Ginger and
other kinds. 4. Indigo. 5. Black Lions. 6. Marriage Customs.
XXIII. - OF THE COUNTRY CALLED COMARI
NOTES. - 1. Cape Comorin. 2. The word _Gat-paul_.
XXIV. - CONCERNING THE KINGDOM ELI
NOTES. - 1. Mount D'Ely, and the City of Hili-Marawi. 2. Textual.
3. Produce. 4. Piratical custom. 5. Wooden Anchors.
XXV. - CONCERNING THE KINGDOM OF MELIBAR
NOTES. - 1. Dislocation of Polo's Indian Geography. The name of Malabar.
2. Verbal. 3. Pirates. 4. Cassia: Turbit: Cubebs. 5. Cessation of direct
Chinese trade with Malabar.
XXVI. - CONCERNING THE KINGDOM OF GOZURAT
NOTES. - 1. Topographical Confusion. 2. Tamarina. 3. Tall Cotton Trees.
4. Embroidered Leather-work.
XXVII. - CONCERNING THE KINGDOM OF TANA
NOTES. - 1. Tana, and the Konkan. 2. Incense of Western India.
XXVIII. - CONCERNING THE KINGDOM OF CAMBAET
NOTE. - Cambay.
XXIX. - CONCERNING THE KINGDOM OF SEMENAT
NOTE. - Somnath, and the so-called Gates of Somnath.
XXX. - CONCERNING THE KINGDOM OF KESMACORAN
NOTES. - 1. Kij-Mekran. Limit of India. 2. Recapitulation of Polo's Indian
Kingdoms.
XXXI. - DISCOURSETH OF THE TWO ISLANDS CALLED MALE AND FEMALE, AND WHY THEY
ARE SO CALLED
NOTE. - The Legend and its diffusion.
XXXII. - CONCERNING THE ISLAND OF SCOTRA
NOTES. - 1. Whales of the Indian Seas. 2. Socotra and its former
Christianity. 3. Piracy at Socotra. 4. Sorcerers.
XXXIII. - CONCERNING THE ISLAND OF MADEIGASCAR
NOTES. - 1. Madagascar; some confusion here with Magadoxo. 2. Sandalwood.
3. Whale-killing. The _Capidoglio_ or Sperm-Whale. 4. The Currents
towards the South. 5. The Rukh (and see Appendix L. 11). 6. More on the
dimensions assigned thereto. 7. Hippopotamus Teeth.
XXXIV. - CONCERNING THE ISLAND OF ZANGHIBAR. A WORD ON INDIA IN GENERAL
NOTES. - 1. Zangibar; Negroes. 2. Ethiopian Sheep. 3. Giraffes. 4. Ivory
trade. 5. Error about Elephant-taming. 6. Number of Islands assigned to
the Indian Sea. 7. The Three Indies, and various distributions thereof.
Polo's Indian Geography.
XXXV. - TREATING OF THE GREAT PROVINCE OF ABASH, WHICH IS MIDDLE INDIA, AND
IS ON THE MAINLAND
NOTES. - 1. Habash or Abyssinia. Application of the name India to it.
2. Fire Baptism ascribed to the Abyssinian Christians. 3. Polo's idea of
the position of Aden. 4. Taming of the African Elephant for War.
5. Marco's Story of the Abyssinian Invasion of the Mahomedan Low-Country,
and Review of Abyssinian Chronology in connection therewith. 6. Textual.
XXXVI. - CONCERNING THE PROVINCE OF ADEN
NOTES. - 1. The Trade to Alexandria from India via Aden. 2. "_Roncins a
deux selles_." 3. The Sultan of Aden. The City and its Great Tanks.
4. The Loss of Acre.
XXXVII. - CONCERNING THE CITY OF ESHER
NOTES. - 1. Shihr. 2. Frankincense. 3. Four-horned Sheep. 4. Cattle fed on
Fish. 5. Parallel passage.
XXXVIII. - CONCERNING THE CITY OF DUFAR
NOTES. - 1. Dhofar. 2. Notes on Frankincense.
XXXIX. - CONCERNING THE GULF OF CALATU, AND THE CITY SO CALLED
NOTES. - 1. Kalhat. 2. "_En fra terre_." 3. Maskat.
XL. - RETURNS TO THE CITY OF HORMOS WHEREOF WE SPOKE FORMERLY
NOTES. - 1. Polo's distances and bearings in these latter chapters.
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