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
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
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. Character 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
mis-stated. 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. Sha-chau 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
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.
