USTOMS 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.

LVII.--OF THE KINGDOM OF ERGUIUL, AND PROVINCE OF SINJU

NOTES.--1. Erguiul. 2. Siningfu. 3. The Yak. 4. The Musk Deer.
5. Reeves's Pheasant.

LVIII.--OF THE KINGDOM OF EGRIGAIA

NOTES.--1. Egrigaia. 2. Calachan 3. White Camels, and Camlets:
Siclatoun.

LIX.--CONCERNING THE PROVINCE OF TENDUC, AND THE DESCENDANTS OF PRESTER
JOHN

NOTES.--1. The name and place Tenduc. King George. 2. Standing Marriage
Compact. The title _Gurgan_. 3. Azure. 4. The terms _Argon_ and
_Guasmul_. The _Dungens_. 5. The Rampart of Gog and Magog. 6. Tartary
cloths. 7. Siuen-hwa fu.

LX.--CONCERNING THE KAAN'S PALACE OF CHAGANNOR.

NOTES.--1. Palace. 2. The word _Sesnes_. 3. Chagan-nor. 4. The five
species of Crane described by Polo. 5. The word _Cator_.

LXI.--OF THE CITY OF CHANDU, AND THE KAAN'S PALACE THERE

NOTES.--1. Two Roads. 2. Chandu, properly Shangtu. 3. Leopards. 4. The
Bamboo Palace. Uses of the Bamboo. 5. Kublai's Annual Migration to
Shangtu. 6. The White Horses. The Oirad Tribe. 7. The Mare's Milk
Festival. 8. Weather Conjuring. 9. Ascription of Cannibalism to
Tibetans, etc. 10. The term _Bacsi_. 11. Magical Feats ascribed to the
Lamas. 12. Lamas. 13. Vast extent of Lama Convents. 14. Married Lamas.
15. Bran. 16. Patarins. 17. The Ascetics called _Sensin_. 18. Textual.
19. Tao-sze Idols.

BOOK SECOND.

PART I.

I.--OF CUBLAY