Asia -- Description and travel -- Early works to 1800; Mongols -- History; Polo, Marco, 1254-1323?; Voyages and travels
NOTES.—1. _The old Tartar idols._ 2. _Kumiz._
LIV.—CONCERNING THE TARTAR CUSTOMS OF WAR 260
NOTES.—1. _Tartar Arms._ 2. _The Decimal Division of their
Troops._ 3. _Textual._ 4. _Blood-drinking._ 5.
_|Kurút|, or Tartar Curd._ 6. _The Mongol military
rapidity and terrorism._ 7. _Corruption of their
Nomade simplicity._
LV.—CONCERNING THE ADMINISTERING OF JUSTICE AMONG THE TARTARS 266
NOTES.—1. _The Cudgel._ 2. _Punishment of Theft._ 3.
_Marriage of the Dead._ 4. _Textual._
LVI.—SUNDRY PARTICULARS ON THE PLAIN BEYOND CARACORON 269
NOTES.—1. _Textual._ 2. _Bargu, the Mecrit, the Reindeer,
and Chase of Water-fowl._ 3. _The bird |Barguerlac|,
the Syrrhaptes._ 4. _Gerfalcons._
LVII.—OF THE KINGDOM OF ERGUIUL, AND PROVINCE OF SINJU 274
NOTES.—1. _Erguiul._ 2. _Siningfu._ 3. _The Yak._ 4. _The
Musk Deer._ 5. _Reeves’s Pheasant._
LVIII.—OF THE KINGDOM OF EGRIGAIA 281
NOTES.—1. _Egrigaia._ 2. _Calachan._ 3. _White Camels, and
Camlets: Siclatoun._
LIX.—CONCERNING THE PROVINCE OF TENDUC, AND THE DESCENDANTS
OF PRESTER JOHN 284
NOTES.—1. _The name and place Tenduc. King George._ 2.
_Standing Marriage Compact. The title |Gurgán|._ 3.
_Azure._ 4. _The terms |Argon| and |Guasmul|. The
|Dungens|._ 5. _The Rampart of Gog and Magog._ 6.
_Tartary cloths._ 7. _Siuen-hwa fu._
LX.—CONCERNING THE KAAN’S PALACE OF CHAGANNOR 296
NOTES.—1. _Palace._ 2. _The word |Sesnes|._ 3. _Chagan-nor._
4. _The five species of Crane described by Polo._ 5.
_The word |Cator|._
LXI.—OF THE CITY OF CHANDU, AND THE KAAN’S PALACE THERE 298
NOTES.—1. _Two Roads._ 2. _Chandu, properly Shangtu._
3. _Leopards._ 4. _The Bamboo Palace. Uses of the
Bamboo._ 5. _Kúblái’s Annual Migration to Shangtu._
6. _The White Horses. The Oirad Tribe._ 7. _The
Mare’s Milk Festival._ 8. _Weather Conjuring._ 9.
_Ascription of Cannibalism to Tibetans, etc._ 10.
_The term |Bacsi|._ 11. _Magical Feats ascribed to
the Lamas._ 12. _Lamas._ 13. _Vast extent of Lama
Convents._ 14. _Married Lamas._ 15. _Bran._ 16.
_Patarins._ 17. _The Ascetics called |Sensin|._ 18.
_Textual._ 19. _Tao-sze Idols._
BOOK SECOND.
PART I.
CHAP. PAGE
I.—OF CUBLAY KAAN, THE GREAT KAAN NOW REIGNING, AND OF HIS
GREAT PUISSANCE 331
NOTE.—_Eulogies of Kúblái._
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