Nobody finds it funny that the French or
Italian Pound is only 20 halfpence, or less!
[9] Uzzano in Delia Decima, IV. 124.
[10] According to Galliccioli (II. 53) piccoli (probably in the
vague sense of small copper coin) were called in the Levant [Greek:
tornesia].
[11] Thus in the document containing the autograph of King Hayton,
presented at p. 13 of Introductory Essay, the King gives with
his daughter, "Damoiselle Femie," a dowry of 25,000 besans
sarrazinas, and in payment 4 of his own bezants staurats
(presumably so called from bearing a cross) are to count as one
Saracen Bezant. (Cod. Diplomat. del S. Mil. Ord. Gerosolim. I.
134.)
APPENDIX L. - Sundry Supplementary Notes on Special Subjects. - (H.C.)
1. - The Polos at Acre.
2. - Sorcery in Kashmir.
3. - PAONANO PAO.
4. - Pamir.
5. - Number of Pamirs.
6. - Site of Pein.
7. - Fire-arms.
8. - La Couvade.
9. - Alacan.
10. - Champa.
11. - Ruck Quills.
12. - A Spanish Edition of Marco Polo.
13. - Sir John Mandeville.
1. - THE POLOS AT ACRE. (Vol. i. p. 19. Int.)
M. le Comte Riant (Itin. a Jerusalem, p. xxix.) from various data
thinks the two sojourns of the Polos at Acre must have been between the
9th May, 1271, date of the arrival of Edward of England and of Tedaldo
Visconti, and the 18th November, 1271, time of the departure of Tedaldo.
Tedaldo was still in Paris on the 28th December, 1269, and he appears to
have left for the Holy Land after the departure of S. Lewis for Tunis (2nd
July, 1270). - H.C.
2. - SORCERY IN KASHMIR. (Vol. i. p. 166.)
In Kalhanda's Rajatarangini, A Chronicle of the Kings of Kasmir
translated by M.A. Stein, we read (Bk. IV. 94, p. 128): "Again the
Brahman's wife addressed him: 'O king, as he is famous for his knowledge
of charms (Kharkhodavidya), he can get over an ordeal with ease.'" Dr.
Stein adds the following note: "The practice of witchcraft and the belief
in its efficiency have prevailed in Kasmir from early times, and have
survived to some extent to the present day; comp. Buehler, Report, p.
24.... The term Kharkhoda, in the sense of a kind of deadly charm or
witchcraft, recurs in v. 239, and is found also in the Vijayesvaramah
(Adipur.), xi. 25. In the form Kharkota it is quoted by the N. P.W.
from Caraka, vi. 23. Kharkhota appears as the designation of a
sorcerer or another kind of uncanny persons in Haracar., ii. 125, along
with Krtyas and Vetalas...."
3. - PAONANO PAO. (Vol. i. p. 173.)
In his paper on Zoroastrian Deities on Indo-Scythians' Coins
(Babylonian and Oriental Record, August, 1887, pp. 155-166; rep. in the
Indian Antiquary, 1888), Dr. M.A. Stein has demonstrated that the
legend PAONANO PAO on the coins of the Yue-Chi or Indo-Scythian Kings
(Kanishka, Huvishka, Vasudeva), is the exact transcription of the old
Iranian title Shahanan Shah (Persian Shahan-shah), "King of Kings";
the letter P, formerly read as P(r), has since been generally
recognised, in accordance with his interpretation as a distinct character
expressing the sound sh.
