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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.
