Chapter 131

Kúblái’s return thither after defeating Nayan, i. 348; the palace, 362; the city, 374; its size, walls, gates, and streets, the Bell Tower, etc., 375n–378n; period of khan’s stay there, 411; its suburbs and hostelries, 412; cemeteries, women, patrols, 414; its traffic, 415; the Emperor’s Mint, 423; palace of the Twelve Barons, 431; roads radiating from, 433; astrologers of, 446 Cambay (Cambaet, Cambeth, Kunbáyat), kingdom of, ii. 394n, 397, 398n, 403n, 426n, 440n, 443n Cambuscan, of Chaucer, corruption of Chinghiz, i. 247n Camel-bird, _see_ Ostrich Camels, mange treated with oil, i. 46; camlets from wool of, 281, 284; white, 281, 283n; incensing, 309n; alleged to be eaten in Madagascar, ii. 411; really eaten in Magadoxo, 413n; ridden in war, 423, 425n Camexu, Kamichu, _see_ Campichu Camlets (cammellotti), i. 281, 283n, 284 Camoens, ii. 266n Camphor (_Laurus Camphora_) trees in Fo-kien, ii. 234, 237n —— of Sumatra, ii. 287n; Fansuri, 299, 302n; earliest mention of, 302n; superstitions regarding, 303n; description of the tree, _Dryabalanops Camphora_, 303n–304n; value attached by Chinese to, 304n; recent prices of, _ib._; its use with betel, 371, 374n —— oil, ii. 304n Campichu (Kanchau), city of, i. 219, 220n Camul (Kamul), province, i. 209, 211n, 214n _Camut_, fine shagreen leather, i. 394, 395n Canal, Grand, of China, ii. 132, 139, 140, 141n, 143n, 152n, 154n, 209n, 222n; construction of, 174, 175n Canale, Cristoforo, MS. by, _34_, _37_ —— Martino da, French Chronicle of Venice by, _88_ Cananor, kingdom, ii. 388n Cananore, ii. 386n, 387n Canara, ii. 390n, 397n Cancamum, ii. 397n _Canela brava_, ii. 390n Canes, Polo’s name for bamboos, _q.v._ Cannibalism, ii. 293, 294, 298n, 311n, 312n; ascribed to Tibetans, Kashmiris, etc., i. 301, 312n, 313n; to Hill-people in Fo-kien, ii. 225, 228n; to islanders in Seas of China and India, 264; in Sumatra, 284, 288n; regulations of the Battas, 288n; ascribed to Andaman islanders, 309, 311n Cannibals, _i.e._ Caribs, ii. 311n, 405n Canonical Hours, ii. 368–369n Cansay, _see_ Kinsay Canton, _3_, ii. 199n, 237n Cape Comorin, _see_ Comari, Temple at, _76_ —— Corrientes (of Currents), ii. 415n, 417n, 426n —— Delgado, ii. 424n —— of Good Hope, ii. 417n _Capidoglio_ (_Capdoille_), sperm-whale, ii. 414n Cappadocian horses, i. 44n Capus, G., i. 129n 162n Caracoron (Kará Korum), i. 66n, 226, 227n, 269, ii. 460, 462n Carajan (Caraian, Karájang, or Yun-nan), province, _21_, ii. 64, 66, 67n, 72n, 76, 86 Caramoran River (Hwang-Ho), ii. 142, 143n, 144n, 151 Carans, or Scarans, i. 100n Caraonas (Karaunahs), a robber tribe, i. 98, 101n, 121n Carats, i. 359n _Carbine_, etymology of, i. 101n Cardinal’s Wit, i. 21n Caribs, _i.e._ cannibals, ii. 311n, 405n Carpets, of Turcomania (Turkey), i. 43, 44n; Persian, 66n; Kerman, 96n Carriages, at Kinsay, ii. 205, 206; Chinese, 211n Carrion, shot from engines, ii. 163n _Carta Catalana_, Catalan Map of 1375, _134_, i. 57n, 59n, 82n, 161n,