Cremesor, Hot Region (Garmsir).
cribhja (cribhodja), country.
Crocodiles, _see_ Alligators.
Cross, legend of the Tree of the, gibes against, on Nayan"s defeat; on monument at Singanfu.
Crossbows.
Cruelties, Tartar.
_Crusca MS._ of Polo.
Cubeb pepper.
Cubits, astronomical alt.i.tude estimated by.
Cublay, _see_ Kublai.
Cucintana.
Cudgel, Tartars" use of.
Cuiju (Kwei-chau), province.
Cuinet, Vital, on Turkman villages, on Mosul Kurds.
Cuirbouly.
Cuju.
Cuncun (Han-Chung) province.
Cunningham, General A.
Cups, flying.
Curds and Curdistan.
Currency, copper token, in India, salt; leather; Cowrie, _see_ Cowries.
Currency, paper, in China, attempt to inst.i.tute in Persia; alluded to.
Current, strong south along East Coast of Africa.
Currents, Cape of, or Corrientes.
Curtains, Persian.
Curzola Island, Genoese victory at, Polo"s galley at; map of.
Curzon, Lord, list of Pamirs.
---- Hon. R., on invention of printing.
Customs, Custom-houses.
Cutch pirates.
Cuxstac, Kuhestec.
Cuy Khan (Kuyuk).
Cycle, Chinese.
_Cynocephali_, the.
Cypresses, sacred, of the Magians.
Cyprus.
Cyrus, his use of camels in battle near Sardis.
Dabul.
_Dadian_, t.i.tle of Georgian kings.
Da Gama.
Dagroian, kingdom of, in Sumatra, probable position of.
Dailiu (Tali).
Datu, Taidu, Tatu (Peking), Kublai"s new city of Cambaluc.
Dakia.n.u.s, city of (Camadi).
_Dalada_, tooth relique of Buddha.
Dalai Lama, with four hands.
D"Alboquerque.
Dalivar, Dilivar, Dilawar (Lah.o.r.e), a province of India.
Dalmian.
Damas.
Damascus, siege of.
Damasks, with _cheetas_ in them, with giraffes.
(_see_ also Patterns.).
Damghan.
Dancing dervishes.
Dancing girls, in Hindu temples.
Dandolo, Andrea, Admiral of Venetian fleet at Curzola, his captivity and suicide; funeral at Venice.
D"Anghieria, Pietro Martire.
Dantapura.
Dante, number of MSS., does not allude to Polo; _Convito_.
D"Anville"s Map.
Darabjird.
Darah.
Darapur.
_Dardas_, stuff embroidered in gold.
Dariel, Pa.s.s of (Gate of the Alans).
Darius, the Golden King.
Dark Ocean of the South.
Darkness, magical.
---- land of, how the Tartars find their way out; the people and their peltry; Alexander"s legendary entrance into; Dumb trade of.
_Darraj_, black partridge, its peculiar call.
Daruna, salt mines.
Darwaz.
Dasht, or Plain, of Baharak.
Dashtab, hot springs.
Dasht-i-Lut (Desert of Lut).
Dashtistan tribe and district.
Dates (chronology) in Polo"s book, generally erroneous.
---- (trees or fruit), Basra; Bafk; Reobarles, province; Formosa Plain; Hormos; wine of; diet of fish, etc.
Daughters of Marco Polo.
D"Avezac, M.
David, king of Abyssinia.
David, king of Georgia (Dawith).
Davids, Professor T.W. Rhys, _Buddhist Birth Stories_.
Davis, Sir John F.
Dawaro.
Daya.
Dead, disposal of the, in Tangut, at Cambaluc; in Coloman; in China; in Dagroian; by the Battas.
---- burning of the, _see_ Cremation.
eating the, _see_ Cannibalism.
De Barros, on Java; Singhapura; Janifs.
Debt, singular arrest for.
_Decima_, or t.i.the on bequest.
Decimal organisation of Tartar armies.
Decius, Emperor.
Deghans, Dehgans.
Dehanah, village.
Deh Bakri.
De la Croix, Petis.