(see also Patterns.). 
Damghan. 
Dancing dervishes. 
Dancing girls, in Hindu temples. 
Dandolo, Andrea, Admiral of Venetian fleet at Curzola,
  his captivity and suicide;
  funeral at Venice. 
D’Anghieria, Pietro Martire. 
Dantapura. 
Dante, number of MSS.,
  does not allude to Polo;
  Convito. 
D’Anville’s Map. 
Darabjird. 
Darah. 
Darapur.
Dardas, stuff embroidered in gold. 
Dariel, Pass of (Gate of the Alans). 
Darius,
  the Golden King. 
Dark Ocean of the South. 
Darkness, magical.
——­ land of,
  how the Tartars find their way out;
  the people and their peltry;
  Alexander’s legendary entrance into;
  Dumb trade of.
Darraj, black partridge, its peculiar call. 
Daruna, salt mines. 
Darwaz. 
Dasht, or Plain, of Baharak. 
Dashtab, hot springs. 
Dasht-i-Lut (Desert of Lut). 
Dashtistan tribe and district. 
Dates (chronology) in Polo’s book, generally erroneous.
——­ (trees or fruit),
  Basra;
  Bafk;
  Reobarles, province;
  Formosa Plain;
  Hormos;
  wine of;
  diet of fish, etc. 
Daughters of Marco Polo. 
D’Avezac, M.
David, king of Abyssinia. 
David, king of Georgia (Dawith). 
Davids, Professor T.W.  Rhys, Buddhist Birth Stories. 
Davis, Sir John F.
Dawaro. 
Daya. 
Dead, disposal of the, in Tangut,
  at Cambaluc;
  in Coloman;
  in China;
  in Dagroian;
  by the Battas.
——­ burning of the, see Cremation.
  eating the, see Cannibalism. 
De Barros,
  on Java;
  Singhapura;
  Janifs. 
Debt, singular arrest for.
Decima, or Tithe on bequest. 
Decimal organisation of Tartar armies. 
Decius, Emperor. 
Deghans, Dehgans. 
Dehanah, village. 
Deh Bakri. 
De la Croix, Petis. 
Delhi, Sultans of. 
D’Ely, Mount, see Eli. 
Demoiselle Crane, anthropoides virgo. 
Deogir. 
Derbend, Wall of (see also Iron Gate of.). 
Deserts, haunted. 
Deserts of Kerman or of Lut,
  of Khorasan;
  of Charchan;
  Lop (Gobi);
  Kharakorum. 
Desgodins, Abbe. 
Despina Khatun. 
Devadasi. 
Devapattan. 
Deveria, G.
Devil-dancing. 
Devil trees. 
Devils, White. 
D’Evreux, Father Yves. 
Dhafar (Dofar, Thafar),
  its incense;
  two places of the name.
Dharani, mystic charms. 
Dhulkarnain (Alex.), see Zulkarnain. 
Dialects, Chinese. 
Diamonds in India, how found,
  mines of;
  diffusion of legend about. 
“Diex Terrien”. 
Dilawar, Polo’s Dihar. 
Dimitri II., Thawdadebuli, king of Georgia. 
Dinar, see Bezant. 
Dinar of Red Gold. 
Dinh Tien-hwang, king of An-nam. 
Diocletian.
Dioscorides insula. 
Dir, chief town of Panjkora. 
Dirakht-i-Fazl. 
Dirakht-i-Kush.