Notes.—1. Explanation
from Ramusio. 2. Pearls of Inland Waters. 3.
Lax
manners. 4. Exchange of Salt for
Gold. 5. Salt currency. 6. Spiced Wine.
7. Plant like the Clove, spoken of
by Polo. Tribes of this Tract.
XLVIII.—CONCERNING THE PROVINCE OF CARAJAN
Notes.—1. Geography
of the Route between Sindafu or Ch’eng-tu fu,
and
Carajan or Yun-nan. 2. Christians
and Mahomedans in Yun-nan. 3. Wheat.
4. Cowries. 5. Brine-spring.
6. Parallel.
Notes.—1. City of
Talifu. 2. Gold. 3. Crocodiles. 4. Yun-nan
horses
and riders. Arms of the Aboriginal
Tribes. 5. Strange superstition and
parallels.
L.—CONCERNING THE PROVINCE OF ZARDANDAN
Notes.—1. Carajan
and Zardandan. 2. The Gold-Teeth. 3. Male
Indolence. 4. The Couvade. (See App. L.
8.) 5. Abundance of Gold. Relation of Gold
to Silver. 6. Worship of the Ancestor. 7.
Unhealthiness of the climate. 8. Tallies. 9.-12.
Medicine-men or Devil-dancers; extraordinary identity
of practice in various regions.
Li.—Wherein is related
how the king of mien and
Bangala vowed vengeance against
the great kaan
Notes.—1. Chronology.
2. Mien or Burma. Why the King may have been
called King of Bengal also. 3. Numbers
alleged to have been carried on
elephants.
LII.—Of the battle that
was fought by the great Kaan’s
host and his seneschal against
the king of mien
Notes.—1. Nasruddin.
2. Cyrus’s Camels. 3. Chinese Account
of the
Action. General Correspondence of
the Chinese and Burmese Chronologies.
Notes.—1. Market-days.
2. Geographical difficulties.
Liv.—Concerning the city of mien, and the
two towers that are therein, one of gold,
and the other of silver
Notes.—1. Amien.
2. Chinese Account of the Invasion of Burma.
Comparison
with Burmese Annals. The City intended.
The Pagodas. 3. Wild Oxen.
Notes.—1. Polo’s
view of Bengal; and details of his account illustrated.
2. Great Cattle.
LVI.—DISCOURSES OF THE PROVINCE OF CAUGIGU
Note.—A Part of Laos.
Papesifu. Chinese Geographical Etymologies.
