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THE TWO BROTHERS AS HIS ENVOYS TO THE POPE NOTES.--1. The Great Kaan's Letter. 2. The Seven Arts. 3. Religious Indifference of the Mongol Princes. VIII.--HOW THE GREAT KAAN GAVE THEM A TABLET OF GOLD, BEARING HIS ORDERS IN THEIR BEHALF NOTES.--1. The Tablet. 2. The Port of Ayas. IX.--HOW THE TWO BROTHERS CAME TO THE CITY OF ACRE; AND THENCE TO VENICE NOTES.--1. Names of the deceased Pope and of the Legate. 2. Negropont. 3. Mark's age. X.--HOW THE TWO BROTHERS AGAIN DEPARTED FROM VENICE, ON THEIR WAY BACK TO THE GREAT KAAN, AND TOOK WITH THEM MARK, THE SON OF MESSER NICOLO NOTE.--Oil from the Holy Sepulchre. XI.--HOW THE TWO BROTHERS SET OUT FROM ACRE, AND MARK ALONG WITH THEM NOTE.--Pope Gregory X. and his Election. XII.--HOW THE TWO BROTHERS PRESENTED THEMSELVES BEFORE THE NEW POPE NOTES.--1. William of Tripoli. 2. Powers conceded to Missionary Friars. 3. Bundukdar and his Invasion of Armenia; his character. 4. The Templars in Cilician Armenia. XIII.--HOW MESSER NICOLO AND MESSER MAFFEO POLO, ACCOMPANIED BY MARK, TRAVELLED TO THE COURT OF THE GREAT KAAN NOTE.--The City of Kemenfu, Summer Residence of Kublai. XIV.--HOW MESSER NICOLO AND MESSER MAFFEO POLO AND MARCO PRESENTED THEMSELVES BEFORE THE GREAT KAAN NOTES.--1. Verbal. 2. "Vostre Homme." XV.--HOW THE LORD SENT MARK ON AN EMBASSY OF HIS NOTES.--1. The four Characters learned by Marco, what? 2. Ramusio's addition. 3. Nature of Marco's employment. XVI.--HOW MARK RETURNED FROM THE MISSION WHEREON HE HAD BEEN SENT XVII.--HOW MESSER NICOLO, MESSER MAFFEO, AND MESSER MARCO, ASKED LEAVE OF THE GREAT KAAN TO GO THEIR WAY NOTES.--1. Risks to Foreigners on a change of Sovereign. 2. The Lady Bolgana. 3. Passage from Ramusio. XVIII.--HOW THE TWO BROTHERS AND MESSER MARCO TOOK LEAVE OF THE GREAT KAAN, AND RETURNED TO THEIR OWN COUNTRY NOTES.--1. Mongol Royal Messengers. 2. Mongol communication with the King of England. 3. Mediaeval Ships of China. 4. Passage from China to Sumatra. 5. Mortality among the party. 6. The Lady Cocachin in Persian History. 7. Death of the Kaan. 8. The Princess of Manzi. BOOK FIRST. Account of Regions Visited or heard of on the Journey from the Lesser Armenia to the Court of the Great Kaan at Chandu. 45 I.--HERE THE BOOK BEGINS; AND FIRST IT SPEAKS OF THE LESSER HERMENIA NOTES.--1. Little Armenia. 2. Meaning of Chasteaux. 3. Sickliness of Cilician Coast. 4. The phrase "fra terre." II.--CONCERNING THE PROVINCE OF TURCOMANIA NOTES.--1. Brutality of the people. 2. Application of name Turcomania. Turcoman Hordes. III.--DESCRIPTION OF THE GREATER HERMENIA NOTES.--1. Erzingan. Buckrams, what were they? 2. Erzrum. 3. Baiburt. 4. Ararat. 5. Oil wells of Baku. IV.--OF GEORGIANIA AND THE KINGS THEREOF NOTES.--1. Georgian Kings. 2. The Georgians. 3. The Iron Gates and Wall of Alexander. 4. Box forests. 5. Goshawks. 6. Fish Miracle. 7. Sea of Ghel or Ghelan. Names ending in -an. 8. Names of the Caspian, and navigation thereon. 9. Fish in the Caspian. V.--OF THE KINGDOM OF MAUSUL NOTES.--1. Atabeks of Mosul. 2. Nestorian and Jacobite Christians. 3. Mosolins. 4. The Kurds. 5. Mush and Mardin. VI.--OF THE GREAT CITY OF BAUDAS, AND HOW IT WAS TAKEN NOTES.--1. Baudas, or Baghdad. 2. Island of Kish. 3. Basra. 4. Baldachins and other silk textures; Animal patterns. 5, 6. Hulaku's Expedition. 7. The Death of the Khalif Mosta'sim. 8. Froissart. VII.--HOW THE CALIF OF BAUDAS TOOK COUNSEL TO SLAY ALL THE CHRISTIANS IN HIS LAND NOTES.--1. Chronology. 2. "Ses Regisles et ses Casses." VIII.--HOW THE CHRISTIANS WERE IN GREAT DISMAY BECAUSE OF WHAT THE CALIF HAD SAID NOTE.--The word "cralantur." IX.--HOW THE ONE-EYED COBLER WAS DESIRED TO PRAY FOR THE CHRISTIANS X.--HOW THE PRAYER OF THE ONE-EYED COBLER CAUSED THE MOUNTAIN TO MOVE NOTE.--The Mountain Miracle. XI.--OF THE NOBLE CITY OF TAURIS NOTES.--1. Tabriz. 2. Cremesor. 3. Traffic at Tabriz. 4. The Torizi. 5. Character of City and People. XII.--OF THE MONASTERY OF SAINT BARSAMO ON THE BORDERS OF TAURIS NOTE.--The Monastery of Barsauma. XIII.--OF THE GREAT COUNTRY OF PERSIA; WITH SOME ACCOUNT OF THE THREE KINGS NOTES.--1. Kala' Atishparastan. 2. The Three Kings. XIV.--HOW THE THREE KINGS RETURNED TO THEIR OWN COUNTRY NOTES.--1. The three mystic Gifts. 2. The Worshipped Fire. 3. Savah and Avah. The Legend in Mas'udi. Embellishments of the Story of the Magi. XV.--OF THE EIGHT KINGDOMS OF PERSIA, AND HOW THEY ARE NAMED 46 NOTES.--1. The Eight Kingdoms. 2. Export of Horses, and Prices. 3. Persian Brigands. 4. Persian wine. XVI.--CONCERNING THE GREAT CITY OF YASDI NOTES.--1. Yezd. 2. Yezd to Kerman. The Woods spoken of. XVII.--CONCERNING THE KINGDOM OF KERMAN NOTES.--1. City and Province of Kerman. 2. Turquoises. 3. Ondanique or Indian Steel. 4. Manufactures of Kerman. 5. Falcons. XVIII.--OF THE CITY OF CAMADI AND ITS RUINS; ALSO TOUCHING THE CARAUNA ROBBERS NOTES.--1. Products of the warmer plains. 2. Humped oxen and fat-tailed sheep. 3. Scarani. 4. The Karaunahs and Nigudarian Bands. 5. Canosalmi. XIX.--OF THE DESCENT TO THE CITY OF HORMOS NOTES.--1. Site of Old Hormuz and Geography of the route from Kerman to Hormuz. 2. Dates and Fish Diet. 3. Stitched Vessels. "One rudder," why noticed as peculiar. 4. Great heat at Hormuz. 5. The Simum. 6. History of Hormuz, and Polo's Ruomedan Acomat. 7. Second Route between Hormuz and Kerman. XX.--OF THE WEARISOME AND DESERT ROAD THAT HAS NOW TO BE TRAVELLED NOTES.--1. Kerman to Kubenan. 2. Desert of Lut. 3. Subterraneous Canals. XXI.--CONCERNING THE CITY OF COBINAN AND THE THINGS THAT ARE MADE THERE NOTES.--1. Kuh-Banan. 2. Production of Tutia. XXII.--OF A CERTAIN DESERT THAT CONTINUES FOR EIGHT DAYS' JOURNEY NOTES.--1. Deserts of Khorasan. 2. The Arbre Sol or Arbre Sec. XXIII.--CONCERNING THE OLD MAN OF THE MOUNTAIN NOTE.--The Assassins, Hashishin, or Mulahidah. XXIV.--HOW THE OLD MAN USED TO TRAIN HIS ASSASSINS NOTES.--1. The story widely spread. Notable murders by the Sectaries. 2. Their different branches. XXV.--HOW THE OLD MAN CAME BY HIS END NOTE.--History of the apparent Destruction of the Sect by Hulaku; its survival to the present time. Castles of Alamut and Girdkuh. XXVI.--CONCERNING THE CITY OF SAPURGAN NOTE.--Shibrgan, and the route followed. Dried Melons. XXVII.--OF THE CITY OF BALC NOTES.--1. Balkh. 2. Country meant by Dogana. 3. Lions in the Oxus Valley. XXVIII.--OF TAICAN, AND THE MOUNTAINS OF SALT. ALSO OF THE PROVINCE OF CASEM NOTES.--1. Talikan. 2. Mines of Rock-salt. 3. Ethnological characteristics. 4. Kishm. 5. Porcupines. 6. Cave dwellings. 7. Old and 47 New Capitals of Badakhshan. XXIX.--OF THE PROVINCE OF BADASHAN NOTES.--1. Dialects of Badakhshan. Alexandrian lineage of the Princes. 2. Badakhshan and the Balas Ruby. 3. Azure Mines. 4. Horses of Badakhshan. 5. Naked Barley. 6. Wild sheep. 7. Scenery of Badakhshan. 8. Repeated devastation of the Country from War. 9. Amplitude of feminine garments. XXX.--OF THE PROVINCE OF PASHAI NOTE.--On the country intended by this name. XXXI.--OF THE PROVINCE OF KESHIMUR NOTES.--1. Kashmir language. 2. Kashmir Conjurers. (See App. L. 2.) 3. Importance of Kashmir in History of Buddhism. 4. Char- acter of the People. 5. Vicissitudes of Buddhism in Kashmir. 6. Buddhist practice as to slaughter of animals. 7. Coral. XXXII.--OF THE GREAT RIVER OF BADASHAN; AND PLAIN OF PAMIER NOTES.--1. The Upper Oxus and Wakhan. The title Nono, (See App. L. 3.) 2. The Plateau of Pamir. (See App. L. 4 and 5.) The Great Wild Sheep. Fire at great altitudes. 3. Bolor. XXXIII.--OF THE KINGDOM OF CASCAR NOTE.--Kashgar. XXXIV.--OF THE GREAT CITY OF SAMARCAN NOTES.--1. Christians in Samarkand. 2. Chagatai's relation to Kublai misstated. 3. The Miracle of the Stone. XXXV.--OF THE PROVINCE OF YARCAN NOTE.--Yarkand. Goitre prevalent there. XXXVI.--OF A PROVINCE CALLED COTAN NOTES.--1. Government. 2. "Adoration of Mahommet." 3. Khotan. XXXVII.--OF THE PROVINCE OF PEIN NOTES.--1. Position of Pein (App. L. 6.) 2. The Yu or Jade. 3. Temporary marriages. XXXVIII.--OF THE PROVINCE OF CHARCHAN NOTE.--Position of Charchan and Lop. XXXIX.--OF THE CITY OF LOP, AND THE GREAT DESERT NOTES.--1. Geographical discrepancy. 2. Superstitions as to Deserts: their wide diffusion. The Sound of Drums on certain sandy acclivities. 3. Shachau to Lob-nor. XL.--CONCERNING THE GREAT PROVINCE OF TANGUT NOTES.--1. Tangut. 2. Buddhism encountered here. 3. Kalmak superstition, the "Heaven's Ram." 4. Chinese customs described here. 5. Mongol disposal of the Dead. 6. Superstitious practice of avoiding to carry out the dead by the house-door; its wide diffusion. XLI.--OF THE PROVINCE OF CAMUL 48 NOTES.--1. Kamul. 2. Character of the people. 3. Shameless custom. 4. Parallel. XLII.--OF THE PROVINCE OF CHINGINTALAS NOTES.--1. The Country intended. 2. Ondanique. 3. Asbestos Mountain. 4. The four elements. 5 and 6. The Story of the Salamander. Asbestos fabrics. XLIII.--OF THE PROVINCE OF SUKCHUR NOTES.--1. Explanatory. 2. The City of Suhchau. 3. Rhubarb country. 4. Poisonous pasture. XLIV.--OF THE CITY OF CAMPICHU NOTES.--1. The City of Kanchau. 2. Recumbent Buddhas. 3. Buddhist Days of Special Worship. 4. Matrimonial Customs. 5. Textual. XLV.--OF THE CITY OF ETZINA NOTES.--1. Position of Yetsina. 2. Textual. 3. The Wild Ass of Mongolia. XLVI.--OF THE CITY OF CARACORON NOTES.--1. Karakorum. 2. Tartar. 3. Chorcha. 4. Prester John. XLVII.--OF CHINGHIS, AND HOW HE BECAME THE FIRST KAAN OF THE TARTARS NOTES.--1. Chronology. 2. Relations between Chinghiz and Aung Khan, the Prester John of Polo. XLVIII.--HOW CHINGHIS MUSTERED HIS PEOPLE TO MARCH AGAINST PRESTER JOHN XLIX.--HOW PRESTER JOHN MARCHED TO MEET CHINGHIS NOTES.--1. Plain of Tanduc. 2. Divination by Twigs and Arrows. L.--THE BATTLE BETWEEN CHINGHIS KAAN AND PRESTER JOHN. DEATH OF CHINGHIS NOTE.--Real circumstances and date of the Death of Chinghiz. LI.--OF THOSE WHO DID REIGN AFTER CHINGHIS KAAN, AND OF THE CUSTOMS OF THE TARTARS
