The Travels of Marco Polo
Chapter 13 : _Account of Regions Visited or heard of on the Journey from the Lesser Armenia to the C

_Account of Regions Visited or heard of on the Journey from the Lesser Armenia to the Court of the Great Kaan at Chandu._

I.--HERE THE BOOK BEGINS; AND FIRST IT SPEAKS OF THE LESSER HERMENIA

NOTES.--1. Little Armenia. 2. Meaning of _Chasteaux_. 3. Sickliness of Cilician Coast. 4. The phrase "_fra terre_."

II.--CONCERNING THE PROVINCE OF TURCOMANIA

NOTES.--1. Brutality of the people. 2. Application of name _Turcomania_.

Turcoman Hordes.

III.--DESCRIPTION OF THE GREATER HERMENIA

NOTES.--1. Erzingan. _Buckrams_, what were they? 2. Erzrum. 3. Baiburt.

4. Ararat. 5. Oil wells of Baku.

IV.--OF GEORGIANIA AND THE KINGS THEREOF

NOTES.--1. Georgian Kings. 2. The Georgians. 3. The Iron Gates and Wall of Alexander. 4. Box forests. 5. Goshawks. 6. Fish Miracle. 7. Sea of Ghel or Ghelan. Names ending in _-an_. 8. Names of the Caspian, and navigation thereon. 9. Fish in the Caspian.

V.--OF THE KINGDOM OF MAUSUL

NOTES.--1. Atabeks of Mosul. 2. Nestorian and Jacobite Christians.

3. Mosolins. 4. The Kurds. 5. Mush and Mardin.

VI.--OF THE GREAT CITY OF BAUDAS, AND HOW IT WAS TAKEN

NOTES.--1. Baudas, or Baghdad. 2. Island of Kish. 3. Basra.

4. Baldachins and other silk textures; Animal patterns. 5, 6. Hulaku's Expedition. 7. The Death of the Khalif Mosta'sim. 8. Froissart.

VII.--HOW THE CALIF OF BAUDAS TOOK COUNSEL TO SLAY ALL THE CHRISTIANS IN HIS LAND

NOTES.--1. Chronology. 2. "Ses _Regisles_ et ses _Ca.s.ses_."

VIII.--HOW THE CHRISTIANS WERE IN GREAT DISMAY BECAUSE OF WHAT THE CALIF HAD SAID

NOTE.--The word "_cralantur_."

IX.--HOW THE ONE-EYED COBLER WAS DESIRED TO PRAY FOR THE CHRISTIANS

X.--HOW THE PRAYER OF THE ONE-EYED COBLER CAUSED THE MOUNTAIN TO MOVE

NOTE.--The Mountain Miracle.

XI.--OF THE n.o.bLE CITY OF TAURIS

NOTES.--1. Tabriz. 2. Cremesor. 3. Traffic at Tabriz. 4. The _Torizi_.

5. Character of City and People.

XII.--OF THE MONASTERY OF SAINT BARSAMO ON THE BORDERS OF TAURIS

NOTE.--The Monastery of Barsauma.

XIII.--OF THE GREAT COUNTRY OF PERSIA; WITH SOME ACCOUNT OF THE THREE KINGS

NOTES.--1. Kala' Atishparastan. 2. The Three Kings.

XIV.--HOW THE THREE KINGS RETURNED TO THEIR OWN COUNTRY

NOTES.--1. The three mystic Gifts. 2. The Wors.h.i.+pped Fire. 3. Savah and Avah. The Legend in Mas'udi. Embellishments of the Story of the Magi.

XV.--OF THE EIGHT KINGDOMS OF PERSIA, AND HOW THEY ARE NAMED

NOTES.--1. The Eight Kingdoms. 2. Export of Horses, and Prices.

3. Persian Brigands. 4. Persian wine.

XVI.--CONCERNING THE GREAT CITY OF YASDI

NOTES.--1. Yezd. 2. Yezd to Kerman. The Woods spoken of.

XVII.--CONCERNING THE KINGDOM OF KERMAN

NOTES.--1. City and Province of Kerman. 2. Turquoises. 3. _Ondanique_ or Indian Steel. 4. Manufactures of Kerman. 5. Falcons.

XVIII.--OF THE CITY OF CAMADI AND ITS RUINS; ALSO TOUCHING THE CARAUNA ROBBERS

NOTES.--1. Products of the warmer plains. 2. Humped oxen and fat-tailed sheep. 3. _Scarani_. 4. The Karaunahs and Nigudarian Bands.

5. Canosalmi.

XIX.--OF THE DESCENT TO THE CITY OF HORMOS

NOTES.--1. Site of Old Hormuz and Geography of the route from Kerman to Hormuz. 2. Dates and Fish Diet. 3. St.i.tched Vessels. "_One rudder_," why noticed as peculiar. 4. Great heat at Hormuz. 5. The Simum. 6. History of Hormuz, and Polo's Ruomedan Acomat. 7. Second Route between Hormuz and Kerman.

XX.--OF THE WEARISOME AND DESERT ROAD THAT HAS NOW TO BE TRAVELLED

NOTES.--1. Kerman to Kubenan. 2. Desert of Lut. 3. Subterraneous Ca.n.a.ls.

XXI.--CONCERNING THE CITY OF COBINAN AND THE THINGS THAT ARE MADE THERE

NOTES.--1. Kuh-Banan. 2. Production of Tutia.

XXII.--OF A CERTAIN DESERT THAT CONTINUES FOR EIGHT DAYS' JOURNEY

NOTES.--1. Deserts of Khorasan. 2. The _Arbre Sol_ or _Arbre Sec_.

XXIII.--CONCERNING THE OLD MAN OF THE MOUNTAIN

NOTE.--The a.s.sa.s.sins, Has.h.i.+s.h.i.+n, or Mulahidah.