t region, the _Terlan_ or goshawk
being most valued, but a few are caught and sent for sale to the Arabs of
Oman. (_J. R. G. S._ XXV. 50, 63, and _Major St. John's Notes_.)

["The fine falcons, 'with red breasts and swift of flight,' come from
Pariz. They are, however, very scarce, two or three only being caught
every year. A well-trained Pariz falcon costs from 30 to 50 tomans (12_l._
to 20_l._), as much as a good horse." (_Houtum-Schindler_, l.c. p. 491.)
Major Sykes, _Persia_, ch. xxiii., writes: "Marco Polo was evidently a
keen sportsman, and his description of the _Shahin_, as it is termed,
cannot be improved upon." Major Sykes has a list given him by a Khan of
seven hawks of the province, all black and white, except the _Shahin_,
which has yellow eyes, and is the third in the order of size.--H. C.]

NOTE 6.--We defer geographical remarks till the traveller reaches Hormuz.

[1] A learned friend objects to Johnson's _Hundwaniy_ = "Indian Steel," as
too absolute; some word for _steel_ being wanted. Even if it be so, I
observe that in three places where Polo uses _Ondanique_ (here, ch.
xxi., and ch. xlii.), the phrase is always "_steel and ondanique_."
This looks as if his mental expression were _Pulad-i-Hundwani_,
rendered by an idiom like Virgil's _pocula et aurum_.

[2] Kenrick suggests that the "bright iron" mentioned by Ezekiel among the
wares of Tyre (ch. xxvii. 19) can hardly have been anything else than
Indian Steel, because named with cassia and _calamus_.

[3] Literally rendered by Mr. Redhouse: "The Indians do well the combining
of mixtures of the chemicals with which they (smelt and) cast the soft
iron, and it becomes _Indian_ (steel), being referred to India (in
this expression)."

[4] In _Richardson's Pers. Dict._, by Johnson, we have a word _Rohan,
Rohina_ (and other forms). "The finest Indian steel, of which the most
excellent swords are made; also the swords made of that steel."

CHAPTER XVIII.

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

After you have ridden down hill those two days, you find yourself in a
vast plain, and at the beginning thereof there is a city called CAMADI,
which formerly was a great and noble place, but now is of little
consequence, for the Tartars in their incursions have several times
ravaged it. The plain whereof I speak is a very hot region; and the
province that we now enter is ca