The Travels of Marco Polo Volume II Part 131

Kia Tsing, Emperor, a great bridge builder.

Kichau Castle.

Kieh-Ch'a.

K'ien-ch'ang, Kiung-tu (Caindu).

Kien-chau.

Kien-kwe.

Kien-lung, Emperor.

Kien-ning fu (Kelinfu).

Kiepert, _Map of Asia_.

Kij-Makran (Kesmacoran).

Kila'-i-Gabr, "Gueber Castle".

Kilimanchi River.

Kiming shan Mountains, gold and silver mines.

_Kimiz_, _k.u.miz_ (_kemiz_), mare's milk,--Tartar beverage.

Kin, or Golden Dynasty in N. China, their paper-money; story of their Golden King.

Kincha, Chinese name for Kipchak.

Kin-Chi, or Gold-Teeth (Zardandan).

King of the Abraiaman.

---- of England, Kublai's message to, intercourse with Mongol princes.

---- of France, Kublai's message to.

---- of Spain, Kublai's message to.

---- Rev. C.W.

Kings of Maabar, the five brothers, their mother's efforts to check their broils.

---- subordinate, or Viceroys, in China.

---- Tartar, of the Ponent.

Kingsmill, T.W.

King-te-chen, porcelain manufacture.

K'ing-yuan (Ning-po).

Kin-hwa fu.

Kinki, Kimkha.

Kinsay (King-sze, or "Capital," Khansa, Khinsa, Khingsai, Khanzai, Cansay, Campsay), formerly Lin-ngan now Hang-chau fu; its surrender to Bayan; extreme public security; alleged meaning of the name; described; bridges; hereditary trades, guilds and wealthy craftsmen and their dainty wives; the lake, islands and garden-houses; stone-towers--inhabitants' clothing and food; guards and police regulations; fires; alarm towers, paved streets; revenue; pavements, public baths, port of Ganfu; the province and other provinces of Manzi, garrisons; horoscopes, funeral rites; palace of the expelled king; church, house registers; hostel regulations; ca.n.a.ls; markets and squares; fruits and fish shops; women of the town, physicians and astrologers, courts of justice; vast consumption of pepper; inhabitants' character--their behaviour to women and foreigners; hatred of soldiers; pleasures on the lake and in carriage excursions; palace of the king; the king's effeminacy and ruin; tides; plan of; notices by various writers of; wealth of; s.h.i.+ps.

Kin-sha Kiang, "River of Golden Sands" (upper branch of Great Kiang, Brius).

Kinshan, _see_ Golden Island.

Kinto, or Hintu, Mongol general.

Kipchak (Ponent), Southern Russia, events related by Polo in; sovereigns; people of; extent of empire.

Kirghiz Kazak.

Kirghiz, the.

Kiria.

Kirk, Sir John, and Raphia palm.

Kis, Kish, or Kais (Kisi), now Ghes, or Kem, island in Persian Gulf, merchants; described.

Kis.h.i.+k, Kis.h.i.+kan, Kizik, Kes.h.i.+kchi, _see_ Kes.h.i.+can.

Kishm (Casem).

---- or Brakht (Oaracta), island in the Persian Gulf.

Kistna River.

Kitubuka, General.

Kiu-chau.

Kiulan (Quilon), _see_ Coilum.

Kizil Irmak, the.

Kizil River.

Kneeling oxen.

Kobad, the Sa.s.sanian.

Kobdo.

Koh-Banan (Cobinan).

Koja (Coja), a Tartar envoy from Persia.

Kokcha River.

_Kok-Tash_, greenstone of Samarkand.

Kolastri, or Kolatiri Rajas.

Ko-li-ki-sze.

Kolkhoi of Ptolemy, identified.

Kollam, _see_ Coilum.

Koloman, _see_ Coloman.

Kolyma, bird-hunting at.

[Greek: Komakon].

Komar.

[Greek: Komaria akron].

Konar tree, Marco Polo's apples of Paradise.

Kondachi.

Konkan, Konkan-Tana.

_Korano_, epithet on Indo-Scythic coins.

_Korea, History of_.

Koresh king.

_Kornish_, or K'o-tow (Khen-theu).

Kosakio, a general against j.a.pan.

Kosseir.

Kotcheres, Kurds of Mosul.

Kotlogh, or Kutlugh, Sultan of Kerman.

Kotlogh Shah, the Chaghataian prince.

Kotrobah Island.

Kouyunjik, sculptures at.

Kozlov, Lieutenant K.P., on the Lob-nor.

Kuang-chou.

Kubenan (Cobinan), a Kuh-banan "Hill of the Terebinths or Wild Pistachios".

Kublai (Cublay), Kaan, the Great Khan, his envoys meet the two elder Polos; receives and questions the Polos; sends them as envoys to the Pope; his desire for Christian teachers, and for oil from the lamp in the Holy Sepulchre; gives them a Golden Tablet; his reception of the three Polos; sends Marco on an emba.s.sy; Marco grows in favour; allows the Polos to depart with Tablets of Authority; rumour of his death; sends a napkin of asbestos to the Pope; his greatness and power; his milk libations; his inscription at Shangtu; Chinghiz's prophecy; his lineage, age, and accession; Nayan's revolt; Nayan's defeat and death; rebukes anti-Christian gibes; returns to Cambaluc; treats four religions with equal respect; his views on Christianity; how he rewards his captains; his personal appearance; his wives and ladies-in-waiting; his palace at Cambaluc; builds Cambaluc city; his bodyguard; order of his feasts; celebration of his birthday; his distribution of robes; his New Year's feast; his elephants; the _K'o-tow_; adopts Chinese ancestor-wors.h.i.+p; his game laws; his hunting establishment; his masters of hounds; how he goes a-hunting; how his year is spent; Ahmad's influence, oppression, and death; his treatment of Mahomedans; his mint and paper-money; his purchase of valuables; his twelve great Barons; his posts and runners; remission of taxes; his justice; a tree planter; his store of corn; charity to the poor; his astrologers; gaol deliveries, and prohibition of gambling; his early campaign in Yun-nan; and the king of Mien and Bangala; Litan's plot; sends Bayan to invade Manzi; his dealings with Bayan; satisfied with the Polo's mangonels; appoints Mar Sarghis governor of Chinghian-fu; the city of Kinsay; his revenue from Kinsay; from Zayton; his expedition against Chipangu (j.a.pan); sends force against Chamba; attempts to gain Java; his death; sends to buy Ceylon ruby; sends for religions of Sakya; testifies to miraculous powers of Sakya's dish; intercourse with Ma'bar; with Kaulam; missions to Madagascar; Kaidu's wars with him.

---- Khan, territories and people subject to (Turkistan), (Tangut and Mongolia); (Tibetan frontier and Yun-nan); (Western China); (N. Eastern China); (Manzi); (Sinju); (Caiju); Chinghian-fu; (Chinginju); (Suju); (Tanpigu); (Chonka); (Zayton); (Chamba); (Sumatra).

Kuche character.

_Kudatku Bilik_, an Uighur poem.

Kuhistan, or Hill country of Persia.

Kukachin, _see_ Cocachin.

Kukin-Tana.

Kukju (Genkju), Kublai's son.

Kuku-Khotan (Blue Town), depot for Mongolian trade with China.

Ku-kwan, Customs' Barrier.

Kulab, lions in, Salt Mines.

Kulan, _Asinus Onager_, the Gor Khar of Persia.

Kulasaikera.

k.u.mar, _see_ Komar.

k.u.mhari, k.u.mari, _see_ Comari.

k.u.miz, kimiz (kemiz), Mare's milk, Tartar beverage, sprinkling of.

k.u.mmajar.

Kunburn Monastery.