_Account of Regions Visited or heard of on the Journey from the Lesser Armenia to the Court of the Great Kaan at Chandu._
I.--HERE THE BOOK BEGINS; AND FIRST IT SPEAKS OF THE LESSER HERMENIA
NOTES.--1. Little Armenia. 2. Meaning of _Chasteaux_. 3. Sickliness of Cilician Coast. 4. The phrase "_fra terre_."
II.--CONCERNING THE PROVINCE OF TURCOMANIA
NOTES.--1. Brutality of the people. 2. Application of name _Turcomania_.
Turcoman Hordes.
III.--DESCRIPTION OF THE GREATER HERMENIA
NOTES.--1. Erzingan. _Buckrams_, what were they? 2. Erzrum. 3. Baiburt.
4. Ararat. 5. Oil wells of Baku.
IV.--OF GEORGIANIA AND THE KINGS THEREOF
NOTES.--1. Georgian Kings. 2. The Georgians. 3. The Iron Gates and Wall of Alexander. 4. Box forests. 5. Goshawks. 6. Fish Miracle. 7. Sea of Ghel or Ghelan. Names ending in _-an_. 8. Names of the Caspian, and navigation thereon. 9. Fish in the Caspian.
V.--OF THE KINGDOM OF MAUSUL
NOTES.--1. Atabeks of Mosul. 2. Nestorian and Jacobite Christians.
3. Mosolins. 4. The Kurds. 5. Mush and Mardin.
VI.--OF THE GREAT CITY OF BAUDAS, AND HOW IT WAS TAKEN
NOTES.--1. Baudas, or Baghdad. 2. Island of Kish. 3. Basra.
4. Baldachins and other silk textures; Animal patterns. 5, 6. Hulaku"s Expedition. 7. The Death of the Khalif Mosta"sim. 8. Froissart.
VII.--HOW THE CALIF OF BAUDAS TOOK COUNSEL TO SLAY ALL THE CHRISTIANS IN HIS LAND
NOTES.--1. Chronology. 2. "Ses _Regisles_ et ses _Ca.s.ses_."
VIII.--HOW THE CHRISTIANS WERE IN GREAT DISMAY BECAUSE OF WHAT THE CALIF HAD SAID
NOTE.--The word "_cralantur_."
IX.--HOW THE ONE-EYED COBLER WAS DESIRED TO PRAY FOR THE CHRISTIANS
X.--HOW THE PRAYER OF THE ONE-EYED COBLER CAUSED THE MOUNTAIN TO MOVE
NOTE.--The Mountain Miracle.
XI.--OF THE n.o.bLE 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. St.i.tched 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 Ca.n.a.ls.
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 a.s.sa.s.sins, Hashishin, or Mulahidah.