nt to
100 _soldi_, i.e. to 5 _lire_.

Everybody seems to be tickled at the notion that the Scotch Pound or
Livre was only 20 Pence. Nobody finds it funny that the French or
Italian Pound is only 20 halfpence, or less!

[9] _Uzzano_ in _Delia Decima_, IV. 124.

[10] According to Galliccioli (II. 53) _piccoli_ (probably in the
vague sense of small copper coin) were called in the Levant [Greek:
tornesia].

[11] Thus in the document containing the autograph of King Hayton,
presented at p. 13 of Introductory Essay, the King gives with
his daughter, "Damoiselle Femie," a dowry of 25,000 _besans
sarrazinas_, and in payment 4 of his own bezants _staurats_
(presumably so called from bearing a _cross_) are to count as one
Saracen Bezant. (_Cod. Diplomat. del S. Mil. Ord. Gerosolim_. I.
134.)

APPENDIX L.--_Sundry Supplementary Notes on Special Subjects_.--(H.C.)

1.--_The Polos at Acre_.
2.--_Sorcery in Kashmir_.
3.--PAONANO PAO.
4.--_Pamir_.
5.--_Number of Pamirs_.
6.--_Site of Pein_.
7.--_Fire-arms_.
8.--_La Couvade_.
9.--_Alacan_.
10.--_Champa_.
11.--_Ruck Quills_.
12.--_A Spanish Edition of Marco Polo_.
13.--_Sir John Mandeville_.

1.--THE POLOS AT ACRE. (Vol. i. p. 19. _Int._)

M. le Comte Riant (_Itin. a Jerusalem_, p. xxix.) from various data
thinks the two sojourns of the Polos at Acre must have been between the
9th May, 1271, date of the arrival of Edward of England and of Tedaldo
Visconti, and the 18th November, 1271, time of the departure of Tedaldo.
Tedaldo was still in Paris on the 28th December, 1269, and he appears to
have left for the Holy Land after the departure of S. Lewis for Tunis (2nd
July, 1270).--H.C.

2.--SORCERY IN KASHMIR. (Vol. i. p. 166.)

In _Kalhanda's Rajatarangini, A Chronicle of the Kings of Kasmir
translated by M.A. Stein_, we read (Bk. IV. 94, p. 128): "Again the
Brahman's wife addressed him: 'O king, as he is famous for his knowledge
of charms (_Kharkhodavidya_), he can get over an ordeal with ease.'" Dr.
Stein adds the following note: "The practice of witchcraft and the belief
in its efficiency have prevailed in Kasmir from early times, and have
survived to some extent to the present day; comp. _Buehler, Report_, p.
24.... The term _Kharkhoda_, in the sense of a kind of deadly charm or
witchcraft, recurs in v. 239, and is found also in the _Vijayesvaramah_
(Adipur.), xi. 25. In