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 -  Persian _Bad-girs_ or wind-catching chimneys. 3. Island of Kish.




BOOK FOURTH.

Wars among the Tartar Princes, and some - Page 7
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Persian _Bad-Girs_ Or Wind-Catching Chimneys.

3.

Island of Kish.

BOOK FOURTH.

Wars among the Tartar Princes, and some Account of the Northern Countries.

I. - CONCERNING GREAT TURKEY

NOTES. - 1. Kaidu Khan. 2. His frontier towards the Great Kaan.

II. - OF CERTAIN BATTLES THAT WERE FOUGHT BY KING CAIDU AGAINST THE ARMIES OF HIS UNCLE THE GREAT KAAN

NOTES. - 1. Textual. 2. "_Araines_." 3. Chronology in connection with the events described.

III. - [1]WHAT THE GREAT KAAN SAID TO THE MISCHIEF DONE BY CAIDU HIS NEPHEW

IV. - OF THE EXPLOITS OF KING CAIDU'S VALIANT DAUGHTER

NOTE. - Her name explained. Remarks on the story.

V. - HOW ABAGA SENT HIS SON ARGON IN COMMAND AGAINST KING CAIDU (Extract and Substance.)

NOTES. - 1. Government of the Khorasan frontier. 2. The Historical Events.

VI. - HOW ARGON AFTER THE BATTLE HEARD THAT HIS FATHER WAS DEAD AND WENT TO ASSUME THE SOVEREIGNTY AS WAS HIS RIGHT

NOTES. - 1. Death of Abaka. 2. Textual. 3. Ahmad Tigudar.

VII. - [1]HOW ACOMAT SOLDAN SET OUT WITH HIS HOST AGAINST HIS NEPHEW WHO WAS COMING TO CLAIM THE THRONE THAT BELONGED TO HIM

VIII. - [1]HOW ARGON TOOK COUNSEL WITH HIS FOLLOWERS ABOUT ATTACKING HIS UNCLE ACOMAT SOLDAN

IX. - [1]HOW THE BARONS OF ARGON ANSWERED HIS ADDRESS

X. - [1]THE MESSAGE SENT BY ARGON TO ACOMAT

XI. - HOW ACOMAT REPLIED TO ARGON'S MESSAGE

XII. - OF THE BATTLE BETWEEN ARGON AND ACOMAT, AND THE CAPTIVITY OF ARGON

NOTES. - 1. Verbal. 2. Historical.

XIII. - HOW ARGON WAS DELIVERED FROM PRISON

XIV. - HOW ARGON GOT THE SOVEREIGNTY AT LAST

XV. - [1]HOW ACOMAT WAS TAKEN PRISONER

XVI. - HOW ACOMAT WAS SLAIN BY ORDER OF HIS NEPHEW

XVII. - HOW ARGON WAS RECOGNISED AS SOVEREIGN

NOTES. - 1. The historical circumstances and persons named in these chapters. 2. Arghun's accession and death.

XVIII. - HOW KIACATU SEIZED THE SOVEREIGNTY AFTER ARGON'S DEATH

NOTE. - The reign and character of Kaikhatu.

XIX. - HOW BAIDU SEIZED THE SOVEREIGNTY AFTER THE DEATH OF KIACATU

NOTES. - 1. Baidu's alleged Christianity. 2. Ghazan Khan.

XX. - CONCERNING KING CONCHI WHO RULES THE FAR NORTH

NOTES. - 1. Kaunchi Khan. 2. Siberia. 3. Dog-sledges. 4. The animal here styled _Erculin_. The Vair. 5. Yugria.

XXI. - CONCERNING THE LAND OF DARKNESS

NOTES. - 1. The Land of Darkness. 2. The Legend of the Mares and their Foals. 3. Dumb Trade with the People of the Darkness.

XXII. - DESCRIPTION OF ROSIA AND ITS PEOPLE. PROVINCE OF LAC

NOTES. - 1. Old Accounts of Russia. Russian Silver and Rubles. 2. Lac, or Wallachia. 3. Oroech, Norway (?) or the Waraeg Country (?)

XXIII. - HE BEGINS TO SPEAK OF THE STRAITS OF CONSTANTINOPLE, BUT DECIDES TO LEAVE THAT MATTER

XXIV. - CONCERNING THE TARTARS OF THE PONENT AND THEIR LORDS

NOTES. - 1. The Comanians; the Alans; Majar; Zic; the Goths of the Crimea; Gazaria. 2. The Khans of Kipchak or the Golden Horde; errors in Polo's list. Extent of their Empire.

XXV. - OF THE WAR THAT AROSE BETWEEN ALAU AND BARCA, AND THE BATTLES THAT THEY FOUGHT (Extracts and Substance.)

NOTES.

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