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0684 The Book of Ser Marco Polo : vol.2
The Book of Ser Marco Polo : vol.2 / Page 684 (Color Image)

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Conjurers, the Kashmirian, i. 166, 168n;
weather, 98, 105n, 166, 168n, 301,
309n-311n; Lamas' ex-feats, 315n-
318n. (See also Sorcerers.)
Conosalmi (Kamasal), i. 99, 106n
Constantinople, i. 2, 19n, 36, ii. 165n,
487; Straits of, 488, 490
Convents, see Monasteries
Cookery, Tartar horse-, i. 264n
Cooper, T. T., traveller on Tibetan
frontier, ii. 45n, 48n, 52n, 59n, 67n
Copper, token currency of Mahomed
Tughlak, i. 429n; imported to Mala-
bar, ii. 390; to Cambay, 398
Coral, valued in Kashmir, Tibet, etc., i.
167, 170n, ii. 49, 52n
Corea (Kauli), i. 343, 345n
Corn, Emperor's store and distribution
of, i. 443
Coromandel (Maabar), see Mabar
Corsairs, see Pirates
Corte del Milione, see Ca' Polo.
—— Sabbionera at Venice, 27 seqq.
Cosmography, mediæval, 130
Costus, ii. 397n
Cotan, see Khotan
Cotton, stuffs of, i. 44n, 45, 47n, 48n,
60, ii. 225, 228n, 361, 363n, 395,
398, 431; at Merdin, i. 60; in Persia,
84; at Kashgar, 181; Yarkand, 187;
Khotan, 188, 190n; Pein, 191; Ben-
gal, ii. 115; bushes of gigantic size,
393, 394n
Counts in Vokhan, i. 171, 173n; at
Dofar, ii. 444
Courts of Justice, at Kinsay, ii. 203
Courade, custom of, ii. 85, 91n-95n, 506n
Cow-dung, its use in Maabar, ii. 341,
365
Cowell, Professor, i. 105n
Cowries (porcelain shells, pig shells), used
for money, etc., ii. 66, 74n, 76, 123;
procured from Locac, 276, 279n
Cralantur, its meaning (?), i. 71n
Cramoisy (quermesis), i. 44n, 63, 65n
Cranes, five kinds of, i. 296, 297n
Crawford, John, ii. 277n
Cremation, i. 204, 208n, ii. 122, 132,
134n, 135, 140, 141, 151, 152, 191,
218, 221n; in Middle Ages, ii. 133n
Cremesor, Hot Region (Garmsir), i. 75,
99n, 112n, 114n
Çribhôja (Çribhôdja), country, ii. 283n
Crocodiles, see Alligators
Cross, legend of the Tree of the, i. 135;
gibes against, on Nayan's defeat, 343;
on monument at Singanfu, ii. 27n
Crossbows, ii. 78, 82n, 161n
Cruelties, Tartar, i. 151n, 265n, 266n,
ii. 180n
Crusca MS. of Polo, 82, i. 18n, 38n, 85n,
297n, 358n, 384n, ii. 34n, 72n
Cubeb pepper, ii. 272, 391n

Cubits, astronomical altitude estimated
by, ii. 382, 389, 392
Cublay, see Kublai
Cucintana, ii. 396n
Cudgel, Tartars' use of, i. 266, 267n,
414
Cuiju (Kwei-chau), province, ii. 124, 127n
Cuinet, Vital, on Turkman villages, i.
44n; on Mosul Kurds, 62n
Cuirbouly, i. 260, 263n, ii. 78, 82n
Cuju, ii. 219, 221n, 224n
Cumcun (Han-Chung) province, ii. 31,
32n
Cunningham, General A., i. 12n, 104,
156n, 173n, 178n, 283n, 290n, ii.
357n
Cups, flying, i. 301, 314n, 349n
Curds and Curdistan, i. 9n, 60, 62n, 83n,
84n, 85n, 102n, 143n, 145n
Currency, copper token, in India, i.
429n; salt, ii. 45, 54, 57n; leather,
i. 429n; Cowrie, see Cowries
Currency, paper, in China, i. 423, 426n;
attempt to institute in Persia, 428n;
alluded to, ii. 124, 127, 132, 135, 138,
140, 141, 152, 154, 170, 174, 176, 178,
181, 187, 218
Current, strong south along East Coast of
Africa, ii. 412, 415n
Currents, Cape of, or Corrientes, ii. 415n,
417n, 426n
Curtains, Persian, i. 66n
Curzola Island, Genoese victory at, 6, 45
seqq.; Polo's galley at, 49; map of, 50
Curzon, Lord, i. 64n, 84n, 86n, 128n;
list of Pamirs, ii. 594n
—— Hon. R., on invention of printing,
138, 132
Customs, Custom-houses, ii. 37, 41n, 170,
204, 215, 216
Cutch pirates, ii. 410n
Cuxstac, Kuhestec, i. 110n
Cuy Khan (Kuyuk), i. 14n, 245, 247n
Cycle, Chinese, i. 447, 454n
Cynocephali, the, ii. 228n, 309, 311n
Cypresses, sacred, of the Magians, i. 131n
Cyprus, i. 65n
Cyrus, his use of camels in battle near
Sardis, ii. 104n

Dabul, ii. 443n
Dadim, title of Georgian kings, i. 53n
Da Gama, ii. 386n, 391n
Dagroian, kingdom of, in Sumatra, ii.
293; probable position of, 297n
Dailiu (Tali), ii. 81n
Daitu, Taidu, Tatu (Peking), Kublái's
new city of Cambaluc, i. 305n, 306n,
374, 375n
Dakiánus, city of (Camadi), i. 113n
Dalaida, tooth relique of Buddha, ii. 329n-
330n
Dalai Lama, with four hands, ii. 265n