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Citation Information
SYNOPSIS OF CONTENTS
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XL.-CONCERNING THE GREAT PROVINCE OF TANGUT .
NOTES.-I. 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 . .
. 209
NOTES.-I. Kamul. 2. Character of the people. 3. Shameless custom. 4. Parallel.
XLII.-OF THE PROVINCE OF CHINGINTALAS . . 2 I 2
NOTES.- I. 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 . 217
NOTES.-I. Explanatory. 2. The City of Sukchau. 3. Rhubarb counts y. 4. Poisonous pasture.
XLIV.-OF THE CITY OF CAMPICHU . 219
NOTES.-I. The City of Kanchau. 2. Recumbent Buddhas. 3. Buddhist Days of Special Worship. 4. Matrimonial Customs. 5. Textual.
XLV.---OF THE CITY OF ETZINA . • . . 223
NOTES.-I. Position of Yetsina. 2. Textual. 3. The Wild Ass of Mongolia.
XLVI.-OF THE CITY OF CARACORON . . . 226
NOTES.-t. Karakorum. 2. Tartar. 3. Czorcha. 4. Prester John.
XLVII.-OF CHINGHIS, AND HOW HE BECAME THE FIRST KAAN
OF THE TARTARS . 238
NOTES.-I. Chronology. 2. Relations between Chinghiz and Aung Khan, the Prester John of Polo.
XLVIII.-HOW CHINGHIS MUSTERED HIS PEOPLE TO MARCH
AGAINST PRESTER JOHN . 240
XLIX.- How PRESTER JOHN MARCHED TO MEET CHINGHIS 241
NOTES.-I. 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 . .
NOTES.--I. Origin of the Cambuscan of Chaucer. 2. Historical Errors. 3. The Place of Sepulture of Chinghiz. 4. Barbarous Funeral Superstition.
LII.-CONCERNING THE CUSTOMS OF THE TARTARS . . 251
NOTES.-I. Tartar Huts. 2. Tartar Waggons. 3. Pharaoh's Rat. 4. Chastity of the Women. 5. Polygamy and Marriage Customs.
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