Comercque_, Khan's custom-house.
Compartments, in hulls of ships.
Compass, Mariner's.
Competitive Examinations in beauty.
Conchi, King of the North.
Concubines, how the Khan selects.
Condor, its habits,
Temple's account of;
Padre Bolivar's of the African.
Condur and Sondur.
_Condux_, sable or beaver.
Conia, Coyne (Iconium).
Conjeveram.
Conjurers, the Kashmirian,
weather-;
Lamas' ex-feats.
(_see_ also Sorcerers.).
Conosalmi (Kamasal).
Constantinople,
Straits of.
Convents, _see_ Monasteries.
Cookery, Tartar horse.
Cooper, T.T., traveller on Tibetan frontier.
Copper, token currency of Mahomed Tughlak,
imported to Malabar;
to Cambay.
Coral, valued in Kashmir, Tibet, etc.
Corea (Kauli).
Corn, Emperor's store and distribution of.
Coromandel (Maabar), _see_ Mabar.
Corsairs, _see_ Pirates.
Corte del Milione, _see_ Ca' Polo.
---- Sabbionera at Venice.
Cosmography, mediaeval.
_Costus_.
Cotan, _see_ Khotan.
Cotton, stuffs of,
at Merdin;
in Persia;
at Kashgar;
Yarkand;
Khotan;
Pein;
Bengal;
bushes of gigantic size.
Counts in Vokhan,
at Dofar.
Courts of Justice, at Kinsay.
_Couvade_, custom of.
Cow-dung, its use in Maabar.
Cowell, Professor.
Cowries (porcelain shells, pig shells), used for money, etc.,
procured from Locac.
_Cralantur_, its meaning (?).
Cramoisy (quermesis).
Cranes, five kinds of.
Crawford, John.
Cremation,
in Middle Ages.
Cremesor, Hot Region (Garmsir).
Cribhoja (Cribhodja), country.
Crocodiles, _see_ Alligators.
Cross, legend of the Tree of the,
gibes against, on Nayan's defeat;
on monument at Singanfu.
Crossbows.
Cruelties, Tartar.
_Crusca MS._ of Polo.
Cubeb pepper.
Cubits, astronomical altitude estimated by.
Cublay, _see_ Kublai.
Cucintana.
Cudgel, Tartars' use of.
Cuiju (Kwei-chau), province.
Cuinet, Vital, on Turkman villages,
on Mosul Kurds.
Cuirbouly.
Cuju.
Cuncun (Han-Chung) province.
Cunningham, General A.
Cups, flying.
Curds and Curdistan.
Currency, copper token, in India,
salt;
leather;
Cowrie, _see_ Cowries.
Currency, paper, in China,
attempt to institute in Persia;
alluded to.
Current, strong south along East Coast of Africa.
Currents, Cape of, or Corrientes.
Curtains, Persian.
Curzola Island, Genoese victory at,
Polo's galley at;
map of.
Curzon, Lord,
list of Pamirs.
---- Hon. R., on invention of printing.
Customs, Custom-houses.
Cutch pirates.
Cuxstac, Kuhestec.
Cuy Khan (Kuyuk)