The Travels of Marco Polo
Chapter 229 : Buyid dynasty.Ca' Polo, Ca' Milion, Corte del Millioni, the house of the Pol

Buyid dynasty.

Ca' Polo, Ca' Milion, Corte del Millioni, the house of the Polos at Venice.

Caaju, castle of.

Cabs, Peking.

Cacanfu (Hokiang-fu).

Cachanfu (P'uchau-fu, Ho-chung-fu).

Cachar Modun.

Cachilpatnam.

_Cadmia_.

Caesalpinia; and _see_ Brazil.

Caesarea of Cappadocia (Casaria, Kaisariya).

Caichu, castle of (Kiai-chau, or Hiai-chau?).

Caidu, _see_ Kaidu.

Caiju, on the Hw.a.n.g-Ho.

---- on the Kiang, Kwachau.

Cail (Kayal), a great port of Commerce; the king; identified; meaning of name; remains of.

Caindu (K'ien-ch'ang), a region of Eastern Tibet.

Caingan (Ciangan, Kiahing).

Cairo, museum at; ventilators at. (_See_ Babylon.).

Caiton, _see_ Zayton.

Cala Ataperistan (Kala' Atishparastan), "Castle of the Fire Wors.h.i.+ppers".

Calachan (Kalajan).

Calaiate, Calatu, _see_ Kalhat.

Calamanz, the word.

Calamina, city.

Caldwell, Rev. Dr. R., on devil-dancing among the Shanars, on name of Ceylon; on Shahr-Mandi and Sundara Pandi; on the Tower at Negapatam; etymology of Chilaw; on Pacauta; Govis; singular custom of arrest; rainy season; food of horses; Shanar devil-images; _choiach_; Cail, or Kayal city; _Kolkhoi_; King Ashar of Cail; _Kollam_; _Pinati_; etymology of Sapong; Cape Comorin.

Calendar, Ecclesiastical Buddhist, the Tartar; of Brahmans; of Doc.u.ments relating to Marco Polo and his family.

Calicut, King of, and his costume.

Calif, _see_ Khalif.

Caligine, Calizene (Khalij, a ca.n.a.l from Nile).

Camadi (City of Dakia.n.u.s) ruined.

Cambaluc (Khanbaligh, or Peking), capital of Cathay, Kublai's return thither after defeating Nayan; the palace; the city; its size, walls, gates, and streets, the Bell Tower, etc.; period of khan's stay there; its suburbs and hostelries; cemeteries, women, patrols; its traffic; the Emperor's Mint; palace of the Twelve Barons; roads radiating from; astrologers of.

Cambay (Cambaet, Cambeth, Kunbayat), kingdom of.

Cambuscan, of Chaucer, corruption of Chinghiz.

Camel-bird, _see_ Ostrich.

Camels, mange treated with oil, camlets from wool of; white; incensing; alleged to be eaten in Madagascar; really eaten in Magadoxo; ridden in war.

Camexu, Kamichu, _see_ Campichu.

Camlets (cammellotti).

Camoens.

Camphor (_Laurus Camphora_) trees in Fo-kien.

---- of Sumatra, Fansuri; earliest mention of: superst.i.tions regarding; description of the tree, _Dryabalanops Camphora_; value attached by Chinese to; recent prices of; its use with betel.

---- oil.

Campichu (Kanchau), city of.

Camul (Kamul), province.

_Camut_, fine s.h.a.green leather.

Ca.n.a.l, Grand, of China.

construction of.

Ca.n.a.le, Cristoforo, MS. by.

---- Martino da, French Chronicle of Venice by.

Cananor, kingdom.

Cananore.

Canara.

Cancamum.

_Canela brava_.

Canes, Polo's name for bamboos.

Cannibalism, ascribed to Tibetans, Kashmiris, etc; to Hill-people in Fo-kien; to islanders in Seas of China and India; in Sumatra; regulations of the Battas; ascribed to Andaman islanders.

Cannibals, i.e. Caribs.

Canonical Hours.

Cansay, _see_ Kinsay.

Canton.

Cape Comorin, see Comari; Temple at.

---- Corrientes (of Currents).

---- Delgado.

---- of Good Hope.

_Capidoglio_ (_Capdoille_), sperm-whale.

Cappadocian horses.

Capus, G.

Caracoron (Kara Korum).

Carajan (Caraian, Karajang, or Yun-nan), province.

Caramoran River (Hw.a.n.g-Ho).

Carans, or Scarans.

Caraonas (Karaunahs), a robber tribe.

Carats.

_Carbine_, etymology of.

Cardinal's Wit.

Caribs, i.e. cannibals.

Carpets, of Turcomania (Turkey); Persian; Kerman.

Carriages, at Kinsay; Chinese.

Carrion, shot from engines.

_Carta Catalana_, Catalan Map of 1375.

_Carte_, _a la_.

Carts, Mongol.

Casan, see Ghazan Khan.

Casaria (Caesarea of Cappadocia).

Cascar (Kashgar), _Chaukans_ of.

Casem, _see_ Kishm.

Caspian Sea (Sea of Ghel or Ghelan), ancient error about; its numerous names.

Ca.s.say, _see_ Kinsay.

Ca.s.sia.

---- buds.

---- fistula.

Castaldi, Panfilo, his alleged invention of movable types.

Castambol.

Castelli, P. Cristoforo di.

Casvin (Kazvin), a kingdom of Persia.

Catalan Navy.

Cathay (Northern China), origin of name; coal in; idols; Cambaluc, the capital of, _see_ Cambaluc; Cathayans, v. Ahmad; their wine; astrologers; religion; politeness, filial duty, gaol deliveries, gambling.

Catholics, Catholicos, of Sis; of the Nestorians.

Cators (_chakors_), great partridges.