NOTES.—­1.  The Country intended. 2.  Ondanique. 3.  Asbestos Mountain.
  4.  The four elements. 5 and 6.  The Story of the Salamander.  Asbestos
  fabrics.

XLIII.—­OF THE PROVINCE OF SUKCHUR

  NOTES.—­1.  Explanatory. 2.  The City of Suhchau. 3.  Rhubarb country.
  4.  Poisonous pasture.

XLIV.—­OF THE CITY OF CAMPICHU

  NOTES.—­1.  The City of Kanchau. 2.  Recumbent Buddhas. 3.  Buddhist Days
of
  Special Worship. 4.  Matrimonial Customs. 5.  Textual.

XLV.—­OF THE CITY OF ETZINA

  NOTES.—­1.  Position of Yetsina. 2.  Textual. 3.  The Wild Ass of Mongolia.

XLVI.—­OF THE CITY OF CARACORON

  NOTES.—­1.  Karakorum. 2.  Tartar. 3.  Chorcha. 4.  Prester John.

XLVII.—­OF CHINGHIS, AND HOW HE BECAME THE FIRST KAAN OF THE TARTARS

  NOTES.—­1.  Chronology. 2.  Relations between Chinghiz and Aung Khan, the
  Prester John of Polo.

XLVIII.—­HOW CHINGHIS MUSTERED HIS PEOPLE TO MARCH AGAINST PRESTER JOHN

XLIX.—­HOW PRESTER JOHN MARCHED TO MEET CHINGHIS

  NOTES.—­1.  Plain of Tanduc. 2.  Divination by Twigs and Arrows.

L.—­THE BATTLE BETWEEN CHINGHIS KAAN AND PRESTER JOHN.  DEATH OF CHINGHIS

  NOTE.—­Real circumstances and date of the Death of Chinghiz.

LI.—­OF THOSE WHO DID REIGN AFTER CHINGHIS KAAN, AND OF THE CUSTOMS OF THE TARTARS

  NOTES.—­1.  Origin of the Cambuscan of Chaucer. 2.  Historical Errors.
  3.  The Place of Sepulture of Chinghiz. 4.  Barbarous Funeral
Superstition.

LII.—­CONCERNING THE CUSTOMS OF THE TARTARS

  NOTES.—­1.  Tartar Huts. 2.  Tartar Waggons. 3.  Pharaoh’s Rat. 4.  Chastity
  of the Women. 5.  Polygamy and Marriage Customs.

LIII.—­CONCERNING THE GOD OF THE TARTARS

  NOTES.—­1.  The old Tartar idols. 2.  Kumiz.

LIV.—­CONCERNING THE TARTAR CUSTOMS OF WAR

NOTES.—­1.  Tartar Arms. 2.  The Decimal Division of their Troops. 3.  Textual. 4.  Blood-drinking. 5. Kurut, or Tartar Curd. 6.  The Mongol military rapidity and terrorism. 7.  Corruption of their Nomade simplicity.

LV.—­CONCERNING THE ADMINISTERING OF JUSTICE AMONG THE TARTARS

  NOTES.—­1.  The Cudgel. 2.  Punishment of Theft. 3.  Marriage of the Dead.
  4.  Textual.

LVI.—­SUNDRY PARTICULARS ON THE PLAIN BEYOND CARACORON

  NOTES.—­1.  Textual. 2.  Bargu, the Mecrit, the Reindeer, and Chase of
  Water-fowl. 3.  The bird Barguerlac, the Syrrhaptes. 4.  Gerfalcons.