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its surrender to Bayan, 146, 149n; extreme public security, 147; alleged meaning of the name, 182, 184n, 185; described, 185–208; bridges, 185, 187, 194n; hereditary trades, guilds and wealthy craftsmen and their dainty wives, 186, 196n; the lake, islands and garden-houses, 186, 187, 196n; stone-towers—inhabitants’ clothing and food, 187, 197n–198n; guards and police regulations, 187–188; fires, 188; alarm towers, paved streets, 189; revenue, 189, 190, 215, 216, 217n, 218n; pavements, public baths, port of Ganfu, 189, 198n, 199n; the province and other provinces of Manzi, garrisons, 190, 200n; horoscopes, funeral rites, 191, 200n; palace of the expelled king, 192; church, house registers, 192, 200n; hostel regulations, 193; canals, 200; markets and squares, 201, 209n; fruits and fish shops, 202, 210n; women of the town, physicians and astrologers, courts of justice, 203; vast consumption of pepper, 204, 210n; inhabitants’ character—their behaviour to women and foreigners, 204, 210n, 211n; hatred of soldiers, 205; pleasures on the lake and in carriage excursions, 205, 211n; palace of the king, 206; the king’s effeminacy and ruin, 207–208, 211n; tides, 208n; plan of, 209n; notices by various writers of, 213n; wealth of, 245n; ships, 255, 260n Kin-sha Kiang, “River of Golden Sands” (upper branch of Great Kiang, Brius), ii. 36, 56, 64, 67n, 69n, 70n, 72n Kinshan, _see_ Golden Island Kinto, or Hintu, Mongol general, ii. 260n Kipchak (Ponent), Southern Russia, events related by Polo in, _23_, i. 5, 6n, ii. 490 _seqq._; sovereigns, 492n; people of, 493n; extent of empire, _ib._ Kirghiz Kazak, i. 313n Kirghiz, the, i. 162n, 176n, 309n, ii. 362n Kiria, i. 192n, 195n, ii. 595n Kirk, Sir John, and Raphia palm, ii. 597n Kis, Kish, or Kais (Kisi), now Ghes, or Kem, island in Persian Gulf,