The Travels of Marco Polo Volume II Part 119

Cat's Head Tablet.

Cats in China.

Caucasian Wall.

Caugigu, province.

Caulking, of Chinese s.h.i.+ps.

Cauly, Kauli (Corea).

Causeway, south of the Yellow River.

Cauterising children's heads.

Cave-houses.

Cavo de Eli.

---- de Diab, ii. 417_n_.

Cayu (Kao-yu).

Celtic Church.

Census, of houses in Kinsay, tickets.

Ceremonial of Mongol Court, _see_ Etiquette.

Ceylon (Seilan), circuit of; etymology of; customs of natives; mountain of Adam's (_alias_ Sagamoni Borcan's) Sepulchre; history of Buddha; origin of idolatry; subject to China.

Ceylon, King of, his pearl-ponds.

Chachan (Charchan, Charchand).

Chagatai (Sigatay), Kublai's uncle, son of Chinghiz.

Chaghan-Jang.

Chaghan-Kuren.

Chaghan-Nor ("White Lake"), N.E. of Kamul.

---- (Chaghan, or Tsaghan Balghasun), site of Kublai's palace.

Chairs, silver.

_Chakor (cator)_, great partridges.

Chalcedony and jasper.

Chalukya Malla kings.

Champa (Chamba), kingdom of, Kublai's expedition; the king and his wives; products; locality; invaded by king of Lukyn.

Chandra Banu.

Chandu (Shangtu), city of peace of Kublai.

Changan.

Chang-chau (Chinginju).

---- in Fo-kien, Zayton (?); Christian remains at.

Ch'ang Ch'un, _travels_.

Changgan (Chang-ngan).

_Chang-kia-Kau_, the gate in the Great Wall.

Chang K'ien.

Chang-shan (Chanshan).

Ch'ang Te (the Chinese traveller), _Si s.h.i.+ Ki_.

Chang Te-hui, a Chinese teacher.

Chang-y (Chenchu).

Chang Yao, Chinese general.

_Chao de Bux (Cavo di Bussi)_, boxwood.

Chaohien, Sung Prince.

_Chao-Khanahs_, bank-note offices in Persia.

Chao Naiman Sume Khotan, or Shangtu, "city of the 108 temples".

_Chao_, paper-money.

_Chao_, t.i.tle of Siamese and Shan Princes.

Chaotong.

Chapu.

Characters, written, four acquired by Marco Polo, one in Manzi, but divers spoken dialects.

Charchan (Chachan of Johnson, Charchand).

Charcoal, store in Peking, palace garden of.

Charities, Kublai's, Buddhistic and Chinese; at Kinsay.

Charles VIII., of France.

Chau dynasty.

Chaucer, quoted.

_Chaukans_, temporary wives at Kashgar.

Chaul.

Cheapness in China.

Cheetas, or hunting leopards.

Cheh-kiang, cremation common during Sung dynasty in, roads into Fo-kien from.

Cheinan, Gulf of.

Chenchau, or Iching hien.

Chenching (Cochin-China).

Chenchu (Chang-y), conspires with Vanchu _v._ Ahmad.

Ch'eng-ting fu.

Ch'eng-Tsu (Yung-lo), Emperor.

Ch'eng-tu (Sze-ch'wan).

Ch'engtu-fu (Sindafu).

Cheu, the Seven.

Chibai and Chiban.

Chichiklik Pa.s.s.

Chien-ch'ang (Caindu). (_See_ K'ien ch'ang.).

Chihli, plain of.

Chilaw.

Chilianwala, battlefield of.

Chilu-ku, last Karakhitai king.

Chin, Sea of.

China, _Imperial Maritime Customs Returns for 1900_; Dominicans in; paved roads in; relations with Korea and j.a.pan; the name; king of Malacca at Court of; trade from Arabia to; from Sofala in Africa.

(_See_ also Cathay and Manzi.).

Chinangli (T'sinan-fu).

_Chinar_, Oriental planes.

Chinchau, Chincheo, Chinchew, Chwanchew, Tswanchau, _see_ Zayton.

Chinese, Polo ignorant of the languages; epigrams; funeral and mourning customs; feeling towards Kublai; religion and irreligion; their politeness and filial piety; gambling; character for integrity; written character and varieties of dialect; s.h.i.+ps; paG.o.das at Negapatam and elsewhere; coins found in Southern India; pottery; trade and intercourse with Southern India.

Chinghian-fu (c.h.i.n.kiang-fu).

Chinghiz Khan, reported to be a Christian; Aung Khan's saying of; his use of Uighur character; Erzrum taken by; harries Balkh; captures Talikan; ravages Badakhshan; his respect for Christians; subjugates Kutchluk Khan; his campaigns in Tangut; Rubruquis' account of; made king of the Tartars; his system of conquests; and Prester John; divining by twigs--presage of victory; defeats and slays Prester John; his death and burial-place; his aim at conquest of the world; his funeral; his army; defeats the Merkits; relations between Prester John's and his families; the Horiad tribe; his prophecy about Kublai; rewards his captains; captures Peking; defeats and slays Taiyang Khan; his alleged invasion of Tibet; his mechanical artillery; his cruelty; Table of Genealogy of his House.

Chinghiz Tora.

Ching-hoang tower at Hangchau-fu.

Chinginju (Chang-chau).

Chingintalas, province, its identification.

Chingkim, c.h.i.n.kin, Chimkin, Kublai's favourite son and heir-apparent, his palace.

Chingsang, Ching-siang (Chinisan), t.i.tle of a Chief Minister of State.

Chingting-fu (Acbaluc).

Chingtsu, or Yung-lo, Emperor.

_Chini_, coa.r.s.e sugar.

Chinju (Tinju).

_Chin-tan_, or _Chinasthana_, Chinese etymology of.

Chinuchi, Cunichi, Kublai's Masters of the Hounds.

Chipangu (j.a.pan), account of Kublai's expedition _v._; its disasters; history of expedition; relations with China and Korea.