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Chinese, Polo ignorant of the languages,
*110*, i. 29*n*; epigrams, 170*n*; funeral
and mourning customs, 207*n*, ii.
191; feeling towards Kúbláí, i. 481,
421*n*; religion and irreligion, 456,
458*n*; their politeness and filial
piety, 457, 462*n*; gambling, 457;
character for integrity, ii. 204, 210*n*;
written character and varieties of
dialect, 236; ships, 249 *seqq.*; pagodas
at Negapatam and elsewhere, 336*n*;
coins found in Southern India, 337*n*;
pottery, 372*n*-373*n*; trade and inter-
course with Southern India, 373*n*,
378*n*, 386, 390, 392*n*
Chinghian-fu (Chinkiang-fu), ii. 175, 176,
177*n*
Chinghiz Khan, *i. 1, 5n, 10n, 12n*,
ii. 458*n*, 479, 481*n*; reported to be a
Christian, i. 14*n*; Aung Khan's saying
of, 27*n*; his use of Uighur character,
28*n*; Erzrum taken by, 49*n*; harries
Balkh, 151*n*; captures Talikan, 154*n*;
ravages Badakhshan, 163*n*; his respect
for Christians, 186*n*, 242*n*, 543*n*;
subjugates Kutchluk Khân, 189*n*; his
campaigns in Tangut, 206*n*, 218*n*,
225*n*, 281*n*; Rubruquis' account of,
237*n*, 239*n*; made king of the Tartars,
238; his system of conquests, 238; and
Prester John, 239-241; divining by
twigs—presage of victory, 241; defeats
and slays Prester John, 244; his death
and burial-place, 244, 245*n*, 249*n*; his
aim at conquest of the world, 245*n*;
his funeral, 250*n*; his army, 262, 265*n*;
defeats the Merkits, 270*n*; relations
between Prester John's and his families,
284, 288*n*; the Horiad tribe, 300,
308*n*; his prophecy about Kúbláí,
331*n*; rewards his captains, 351*n*;
captures Peking, ii. 8*n*; defeats and
slays Taiyang Khan, 20*n*; his alleged
invasion of Tibet, 46*n*; his mechanical
artillery, 168*n*; his cruelty, 181*n*;
Table of Genealogy of his House, 505*n*
Chinghiz Tora, ii. 481*n*
Ching-hoang tower at Hangchau-fu, ii.
214*n*
Chingnju (Chang-chau), ii. 178
Chingintalas, province, i. 212; its identifi-
cation, 214*n*, 215*n*
Chingkim, Chinkin, Chimkin, Kúbláí's
favourite son and heir-apparent, i. 38*n*,
359, 360*n*, 418, 422*n*; his palace, 360,
372*n*
Chingsang, Ching-siang (Chinisan), title
of a Chief Minister of State, i. 432*n*,
ii. 145, 148*n*, 150*n*, 218*n*
Chingting-fu (Acbaluc), ii. 13, 14*n*
Chingtsu, or Yung-lo, Emperor, ii. 392*n*
*Chini*, coarse sugar, ii. 230*n*
Chinju (Tinju), ii. 153, 154*n*

*Chin-tan*, or *Chinasthâna*, Chinese ety-
mology of, ii. 119*n*
Chinuchi, Cunichi, Kúbláí's Masters of
the Hounds, i. 400, 401*n*
Chipangu (Japan), ii. 253, 256*n*; account
of Kúbláí's expedition *v.*, 255, 258;
its disasters, 255-256; history of ex-
pedition, 260*n seqq.*; relations with
China and Korea, 262*n*
Chitral, i. 154*n*, 160*n*, 165*n*, 166*n*
*Chloroxylon Dupada*, ii. 397*n*
Cho-chau (Juju), ii. 10, 11*n*, 131*n*
*Cholach*, the term, ii. 364, 368*n*
Chola, or Sola-desam (Soli, Tanjore), ii.
335*n*, 336*n*, 364, 368*n*
Chonka (Fo-kien), kingdom of, ii. 231,
232*n*, 236; explanation of name, 232*n*
Chonkwé, ii. 232*n*
Chorcha, *see* Churchin
Christian, astrologers, i. 241, 446; churches
in China, early, ii. 27*n*; inscription of
Singanfu, 28*n*; Alans in the Mongol
service, ii. 178, 179*n*
Christianity, attributed to Chinghizide
princes, i. 14*n*, ii. 476, 477*n*; Kúb-
láí's views on, i. 344*n*
— former, of Socotra, ii. 410*n*
Christians, of the Greek rite, Georgians,
i. 50; and Russians, ii. 486; Jacobite
and Nestorian, at Mosul, i. 46, 60,
61*n*; among the Kurds, 60, 62*n*;
and the Khalif of Baghdad, the
miracle of the mountain and the one
eyed cobbler, 68-73; Kashgar, 182,
183*n*; in Samarkand, 183, 186*n*; the
miracle of the stone removed, 185;
Yarkand, 187; Tangut, 203, 207*n*;
Chingintalas, 212; Suh-chau, 217;
Kan-chau, 219; in Chinghiz's camp,
241; Erguil and Sinju, 274; Egrigaia,
281; Tenduc, 285; Nayan and the
Khan's decision, 339, 344; at Kúbláí's
Court, 388; in Yun-nan, ii. 66, 74*n*;
Cacanfu, 132; Vang-chau, 154*n*;
churches at Chin-kiang fu, 177; at
Kinsay, 192; St. Thomas', 353-354;
Coilum, 375; Male and Female Islands,
404; Socotra, 406; Abyssinia and fire
baptism, 427, 432*n*; of the Girdle,
432*n*; in Lac (Wallachia), 487
*Chracha*, the Rukh (*q.v.*), ii. 415*n seqq.*
Chronology and chronological data dis-
cussed, first journey of the Polos, i. 3*n*;
war between Barka and Húlakú, 8*n*;
Polos' stay at Bokhara, 10*n*; their
departure and their second journey
from shore, 23*n*; their return voyage
and arrival in Persia, 38*n*; story of
Nigudar, 103*n*; Hormuz princes, 120*n*;
destruction of Ismailites, 146*n*; his-
tory of Chinghiz, 239*n*, 242*n*, 247*n*;
Kúbláí's birth and accession, 334*n*;
Nayan' rebellion, 334*n*, 346*n*; Polo's