The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1

Chapter 152

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lion’s head and gerfalcon, 35, 351; bestowed on distinguished captains, inscription, 350, 351n–354n; cat’s head, 356n; granted to governors of different rank, 431 —— worshipped by Cathayans, i. 456, 458n Tabriz (Tauris), i. 17n, 74, 76n Tachindo, _see_ Ta-t’sien-lu Tacitus, _Claustra Caspiorum_, Pass of Derbend, i. 53n Tactics, Tartar, i. 262, 265n, ii. 460 Tacuin, i. 447, 448n Tadinfu, ii. 136 Taeping Insurrection and Devastations, ii. 154n, 158n, 173n, 176n, 177n, 179n, 184n, 196n, 222n Taeping, or Taiping, Sovereigns’ effeminate customs, ii. 20n Taffetas, ii. 10n Taft, near Yezd, turquoise at, i. 92n Tafurs, i. 313n Tagachar, ii. 471, 474n Tagaung, ii. 107n, 111n, 113n Tagharma Pass, i. 172n, ii. 594n Tághdúngbásh River, i. 175n Taianfu (T’ai-yuan-fu), king of N. China, ii. 12, 14n, 15n Taiani, ii. 432n Taican, _see_ Talikan Taichau (Tigu), ii. 154n T’aiching-Kwan, ii. 26n Taidu, Daitu, Tatu, Kúblái’s new city of Cambaluc, i. 305n, 306n, 374, 375n Taikung, _see_ Tagaung Tailed men, in Sumatra, ii. 299, 301n; elsewhere, 301n–302n; English, 302n Tailors, none in Maabar, ii. 338 Taimúni tribe, i. 100n Taiting-fu (Tadinfu), or Yenchau, ii. 137n Taitong-fu, _see_ Tathung Tai-tsu, Emperor, i. 428n T’ai Tsung, Emperor, ii. 15n, 28n Taiyang Khan (Great King), king of the Naimans, ii. 20n Tajiks of Badakhshan, great topers, i. 153, 155n Takfúr, ii. 148n Takhtapul, i. 152n Táki-uddin, Abdu-r Rahmán, ii. 333n Takla-Makan, i. 190n Talains, ii. 74n Talas River, ii. 459n Tali, gold mines, ii. 81n Talifu (Carajan), ii. 67n, 76n, 79n, 80n, 105n, 107n, 111n Talikan, Thaikan (Taican), i. 153, 154n, 163n Tallies, record by, ii. 86, 96n Tamarind, pirates’ use of, ii. 392, 394n Tamerlan, i. 8n Tana (Azov), _9_, _43_, _72_, i. 4n, 6n, 19n —— near Bombay, kingdom of, ii. 395, 396n, 403n, 426n, 440n Tana-Maiambu, ii. 396n Tana-Malayu, ii. 281n, 283n Tánasi cloth, ii. 396n Tanduc, _see_ Tenduc T’ang dynasty, ii. 28n, 194n, 278n Tangnu Oola, branch of Altai, i. 215n Tangut province, Chinese Si Hia, or Ho Si, i. 29n, 203, 214n, 217, 219, 220n, 223, 224n, 245n, 274, 276n, 281; five invasions of, 281n Tangutan, term applied to Tibetan speaking people round the Koko-nor,