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.