NOTES.—1. _The Eight Kingdoms._ 2. _Export of Horses, and Prices._ 3. _Persian Brigands._ 4. _Persian wine._ XVI.—CONCERNING THE GREAT CITY OF YASDI 88 NOTES.—1. _Yezd._ 2. _Yezd to Kerman. The Woods spoken of._ XVII.—CONCERNING THE KINGDOM OF KERMAN 90 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 97 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 107 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 Simúm._ 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 123 NOTES.—1. _Kerman to Kúbenán._ 2. _Desert of Lút._ 3. _Subterraneous Canals._ XXI.—CONCERNING THE CITY OF COBINAN AND THE THINGS THAT ARE MADE THERE 125 NOTES.—1. _Kuh-Banán._ 2. _Production of Tútíá._ XXII.—OF A CERTAIN DESERT THAT CONTINUES FOR EIGHT DAYS’ JOURNEY 127 NOTES.—1. _Deserts of Khorasan._ 2. _The |Arbre Sol| or |Arbre Sec|._ XXIII.—CONCERNING THE OLD MAN OF THE MOUNTAIN 139 NOTE.—_The Assassins, Hashíshîn, or Muláhidah._ XXIV.—HOW THE OLD MAN USED TO TRAIN HIS ASSASSINS 142 NOTES.—1. _The story widely spread. Notable murders by the Sectaries._ 2. _Their different branches._ XXV.—HOW THE OLD MAN CAME BY HIS END 145 NOTE.—_History of the apparent Destruction of the Sect by Hulákú; its survival to the present time. Castles of Alamut and Girdkuh._ XXVI.—CONCERNING THE CITY OF SAPURGAN 149 NOTE.—_Shibrgân, and the route followed. Dried Melons._ XXVII.—OF THE CITY OF BALC 151 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 153