Chapter 143

Patu, _see_ Batu Paukin (Pao-ying), ii. 152 Pauthier, G., remarks on text of Polo, _92_ _seqq._, _et passim_ Paved roads in China, ii. 189, 198n —— streets of Kinsay, ii. 189 Payan, _see_ Bayan Payangadi, ii. 387n Pa-yi writing, specimen of, ii. 65n Peaches, yellow and white (apricots), ii. 202, 210 Peacocks at St. Thomas’s, ii. 355; special kind in Coilum, ii. 376 Pearls, i. 60, 107, 350, 387, 390, 394, 424, ii. 338, 373n; in Caindu, 53, 56n, 231, 235; rose-coloured in Chipangu, 254, 257n; fishery of, 331, 332, 337n, 344, 372n; pearls and precious stones of kingdom of Maabar, 338, 364, 368n Pears, enormous, ii. 202, 210n Pedir, ii. 289n Pedro, Prince of Portugal, _110_, _135_ Pegu and Bengal confounded, ii. 99n, 115n, 128n Pei-chau (Piju), ii. 141 Pein (Pim), province, i. 191, 192n; site of, ii. 595n Peking, white pagoda at, ii. 347n. (_See_ Cambaluc.) Pelly, Col. Sir Lewis, British Resident at Bushire, i. 85n, 86n, 110n, 114n, 117n Pema-ching, ii. 35n Pemberton, Captain R., ii. 79n Pentam (Bintang), ii. 280n, 284 Pepper, daily consumption of, at Kinsay, ii. 204; change in Chinese use of, 210n; great importation at Zayton, duty on, 235, 242n; white and black, 264, 272; in Coilum, 375; Eli and Cananore, 385, 388n; Melibar, 389; Guzerat, 393, 394n; trade in, to Alexandria, 235, 389, 438 Pepper Country, ii. 377n Peregrine falcons, i. 269, ii. 487 Perla (Ferlec), ii. 287n Persia, extent of name to Bokhara, i. 10n; spoken of, 75, 78; three Magi of 78; its eight kingdoms, 83 Persia and India, boundary of, ii. 402n Persian applied to language of foreigners at Mongol Court, i. 380n, ii. 5n Persian Gulf (Sea of India?), i. 63, 64n Pesháwar, ii. 330n Peter, Tartar slave of Marco Polo’s, _72_ Pharaoh’s rats (Gerboa), i. 252, 254n, ii. 480, 517n Phayre, Major-General Sir Arthur, ii. 100n, 105n, 113n, 114n Pheasants, large and long tailed, i. 275, ii. 22, 153; Reeves’s, i. 280n Pheng (the Rukh), ii. 421n Philip the Fair, i. 14n, 87n Philip III. and IV. of France, i. 87n Philippine Islands, ii. 265n, 266n Phillips, G., ii. 220n–222n, 224n, 228n, 230n, 232n, 233n, 238n, 239n, 240n–241n, 278n, 279n, 296n, 297n, 308n, 314n, 315n, 596n Phipps, Captain, ii. 373n Phra Râma, Siamese kings so-called, ii. 278n Phungan, Phungan-lu (Fungul?), ii. 127n, 129n Physician, a virtuous, i. 461n Physicians, ii. 203, 376 Pianfu (P’ing-yang fu), ii. 13, 16n, 25n _Piccoli_, ii. 66, 74n Pichalok, ii. 279n Pievtsov, General, i. 188n; expedition, 200n Pigeon posts, i. 438n Pig-shells, ii. 85 Piju (Pei-chau), ii. 141 Pilgrimage, to Adam’s Sepulchre in Ceylon, ii. 319; to Shrine of St. Thomas, 353 “Pillar Road,” ii. 32n Pima (Pim), i. 191, 192n Pinati, king of Kaulam, ii. 380n Pine woods in Mongolian desert, i. 224 —— in South China, ii. 251n P’ing-chang, Fanchán, or second class Minister, i. 432n P’ing-yang fu (Pianfu), ii. 13, 16n, 25n Pinna-Cael (Punnei-Káyal), ii. 372n Pipino, Friar Francesco, _66_, _81_, _95_, _103_, i. 19n, 22n, 23n, 144n, 156n, 395n, ii. 120n, 517n Pirabandi or Bir Pandi (Vira Pandi), ii. 333n–335n Pirada, ii. 305n Pirates of Malabar, ii. 389–390n; Guzerat 392; Tana, 395; Somnath, 400n; Socotra, 407, 410n Piratical customs at Eli, ii. 385, 390n Pistachioes, i. 97, 114n, 125n, 153, 155n Plane, Oriental or Chínár, i. 127, 128n, 131n, 135n, 138n Plano Carpini, _15_, _passim_ Pog, or Fiag River, i. 54n Poison, antidote to, ii. 79 Poisoning guests, custom of, ii. 84n Poisonous pasturage, i. 217, 218n Poison wind, i. 108, 120n Poland, Mongol invasion of, ii. 493n Pole, or Jackdaw on Polo’s scutcheon, _7_ Pole-star, invisible in Java the Less, ii. 284, 292; visible again in India, 382, 389, 392, 397 Police, of Cambaluc, i. 414; Kinsay, 187, 188 Politeness of Chinese, i. 457, 462n Polo, Andrea, grandfather of Marco, _8_, _14_, _26_ —— Antonio, illegitimate son of Elder Marco, _26_ —— Bellela, second daughter, _69_, _71_; died before 1333, _76_, ii. 506n —— Donata, wife of Traveller, _69_, _71_; sale of property to her husband, _30_, ii. 507, 512; death between 1333–1336, _76_; before Council, _77_; may have been Loredano, _69_, _77_, ii. 510n, 512n, 518n, 520n —— or Bragadino, Fantina, eldest daughter of Traveller, _69_, _71_, _76_, ii. 506n, 513n —— Felice, a cousin, _25_, _64_ —— Fiordelisa, wife of last, _25_, _65_ Polo, Fiordelisa, daughter of Maffeo the Younger, _17_, _64_ —— Maffeo, brother of Nicolo, _14_, _15_, _64_; in Kan-chau, i. 220; time of death between 1309 and 1318, _66_ —— Maffeo, brother of Traveller, _15_, _16_; probabilities as to birth, _17_, _18_, _25_; will of, _26_, ii. 510n; abstract from, _64–66_ —— Marco, the elder son of Andrea, Uncle of the Traveller, _14_; his will, _17_, _25_, _26_, i. 4, ii. 510n —— Marco, the Traveller, veracity, perplexities in his biography, _1_; Ramusio’s notices, extracts from, _2_ _seqq._; recognition of his names of places, paralleled with Columbus, _3_, _105_; nicknamed _Millioni_, _6_, _67_; story of his capture at Curzola, _6_; writes his book in prison at Genoa, _6_; release and marriage, _7_; arms, _7_; claim to nobility, _14_; supposed autograph, _ib._; his birth, circumstances of, _15_; is taken to East, _18_; employed by Kúblái, mentioned in Chinese Records, _21_, _see_