Kia Tsing, Emperor, a great bridge builder.
Kichau Castle.
Kieh-Ch"a.
K"ien-ch"ang, Kiung-tu (Caindu).
Kien-chau.
Kien-kwe.
Kien-lung, Emperor.
Kien-ning fu (Kelinfu).
Kiepert, _Map of Asia_.
Kij-Makran (Kesmacoran).
Kila"-i-Gabr, "Gueber Castle".
Kilimanchi River.
Kiming shan Mountains, gold and silver mines.
_Kimiz_, _k.u.miz_ (_kemiz_), mare"s milk,--Tartar beverage.
Kin, or Golden Dynasty in N. China, their paper-money; story of their Golden King.
Kincha, Chinese name for Kipchak.
Kin-Chi, or Gold-Teeth (Zardandan).
King of the Abraiaman.
---- of England, Kublai"s message to, intercourse with Mongol princes.
---- of France, Kublai"s message to.
---- of Spain, Kublai"s message to.
---- Rev. C.W.
Kings of Maabar, the five brothers, their mother"s efforts to check their broils.
---- subordinate, or Viceroys, in China.
---- Tartar, of the Ponent.
Kingsmill, T.W.
King-te-chen, porcelain manufacture.
K"ing-yuan (Ning-po).
Kin-hwa fu.
Kinki, Kimkha.
Kinsay (King-sze, or "Capital," Khansa, Khinsa, Khingsai, Khanzai, Cansay, Campsay), formerly Lin-ngan now Hang-chau fu; its surrender to Bayan; extreme public security; alleged meaning of the name; described; bridges; hereditary trades, guilds and wealthy craftsmen and their dainty wives; the lake, islands and garden-houses; stone-towers--inhabitants" clothing and food; guards and police regulations; fires; alarm towers, paved streets; revenue; pavements, public baths, port of Ganfu; the province and other provinces of Manzi, garrisons; horoscopes, funeral rites; palace of the expelled king; church, house registers; hostel regulations; ca.n.a.ls; markets and squares; fruits and fish shops; women of the town, physicians and astrologers, courts of justice; vast consumption of pepper; inhabitants" character--their behaviour to women and foreigners; hatred of soldiers; pleasures on the lake and in carriage excursions; palace of the king; the king"s effeminacy and ruin; tides; plan of; notices by various writers of; wealth of; ships.
Kin-sha Kiang, "River of Golden Sands" (upper branch of Great Kiang, Brius).
Kinshan, _see_ Golden Island.
Kinto, or Hintu, Mongol general.
Kipchak (Ponent), Southern Russia, events related by Polo in; sovereigns; people of; extent of empire.
Kirghiz Kazak.
Kirghiz, the.
Kiria.
Kirk, Sir John, and Raphia palm.
Kis, Kish, or Kais (Kisi), now Ghes, or Kem, island in Persian Gulf, merchants; described.
Kishik, Kishikan, Kizik, Keshikchi, _see_ Keshican.
Kishm (Casem).
---- or Brakht (Oaracta), island in the Persian Gulf.
Kistna River.
Kitubuka, General.
Kiu-chau.
Kiulan (Quilon), _see_ Coilum.
Kizil Irmak, the.
Kizil River.
Kneeling oxen.
Kobad, the Sa.s.sanian.
Kobdo.
Koh-Banan (Cobinan).
Koja (Coja), a Tartar envoy from Persia.
Kokcha River.
_Kok-Tash_, greenstone of Samarkand.
Kolastri, or Kolatiri Rajas.
Ko-li-ki-sze.
Kolkhoi of Ptolemy, identified.
Kollam, _see_ Coilum.
Koloman, _see_ Coloman.
Kolyma, bird-hunting at.
[Greek: Komakon].
Komar.
[Greek: Komaria akron].
Konar tree, Marco Polo"s apples of Paradise.
Kondachi.
Konkan, Konkan-Tana.
_Korano_, epithet on Indo-Scythic coins.
_Korea, History of_.
Koresh king.
_Kornish_, or K"o-tow (Khen-theu).
Kosakio, a general against j.a.pan.
Kosseir.
Kotcheres, Kurds of Mosul.
Kotlogh, or Kutlugh, Sultan of Kerman.
Kotlogh Shah, the Chaghataian prince.
Kotrobah Island.
Kouyunjik, sculptures at.
Kozlov, Lieutenant K.P., on the Lob-nor.
Kuang-chou.
Kubenan (Cobinan), a Kuh-banan "Hill of the Terebinths or Wild Pistachios".
Kublai (Cublay), Kaan, the Great Khan, his envoys meet the two elder Polos; receives and questions the Polos; sends them as envoys to the Pope; his desire for Christian teachers, and for oil from the lamp in the Holy Sepulchre; gives them a Golden Tablet; his reception of the three Polos; sends Marco on an emba.s.sy; Marco grows in favour; allows the Polos to depart with Tablets of Authority; rumour of his death; sends a napkin of asbestos to the Pope; his greatness and power; his milk libations; his inscription at Shangtu; Chinghiz"s prophecy; his lineage, age, and accession; Nayan"s revolt; Nayan"s defeat and death; rebukes anti-Christian gibes; returns to Cambaluc; treats four religions with equal respect; his views on Christianity; how he rewards his captains; his personal appearance; his wives and ladies-in-waiting; his palace at Cambaluc; builds Cambaluc city; his bodyguard; order of his feasts; celebration of his birthday; his distribution of robes; his New Year"s feast; his elephants; the _K"o-tow_; adopts Chinese ancestor-worship; his game laws; his hunting establishment; his masters of hounds; how he goes a-hunting; how his year is spent; Ahmad"s influence, oppression, and death; his treatment of Mahomedans; his mint and paper-money; his purchase of valuables; his twelve great Barons; his posts and runners; remission of taxes; his justice; a tree planter; his store of corn; charity to the poor; his astrologers; gaol deliveries, and prohibition of gambling; his early campaign in Yun-nan; and the king of Mien and Bangala; Litan"s plot; sends Bayan to invade Manzi; his dealings with Bayan; satisfied with the Polo"s mangonels; appoints Mar Sarghis governor of Chinghian-fu; the city of Kinsay; his revenue from Kinsay; from Zayton; his expedition against Chipangu (j.a.pan); sends force against Chamba; attempts to gain Java; his death; sends to buy Ceylon ruby; sends for religions of Sakya; testifies to miraculous powers of Sakya"s dish; intercourse with Ma"bar; with Kaulam; missions to Madagascar; Kaidu"s wars with him.
---- Khan, territories and people subject to (Turkistan), (Tangut and Mongolia); (Tibetan frontier and Yun-nan); (Western China); (N. Eastern China); (Manzi); (Sinju); (Caiju); Chinghian-fu; (Chinginju); (Suju); (Tanpigu); (Chonka); (Zayton); (Chamba); (Sumatra).
Kuche character.
_Kudatku Bilik_, an Uighur poem.
Kuhistan, or Hill country of Persia.
Kukachin, _see_ Cocachin.
Kukin-Tana.
Kukju (Genkju), Kublai"s son.
Kuku-Khotan (Blue Town), depot for Mongolian trade with China.
Ku-kwan, Customs" Barrier.
Kulab, lions in, Salt Mines.
Kulan, _Asinus Onager_, the Gor Khar of Persia.
Kulasaikera.
k.u.mar, _see_ Komar.
k.u.mhari, k.u.mari, _see_ Comari.
k.u.miz, kimiz (kemiz), Mare"s milk, Tartar beverage, sprinkling of.
k.u.mmajar.
Kunburn Monastery.