Chapter 136

Cups, flying, i. 301, 314n, 349n Curds and Curdistan, i. 9n, 60, 62n, 83n, 84n, 85n, 102n, 143n, 145n Currency, copper token, in India, i. 429n; salt, ii. 45, 54, 57n; leather, i. 429n; Cowrie, _see_ Cowries Currency, paper, in China, i. 423, 426n; attempt to institute in Persia, 428n; alluded to, ii. 124, 127, 132, 135, 138, 140, 141, 152, 154, 170, 174, 176, 178, 181, 187, 218 Current, strong south along East Coast of Africa, ii. 412, 415n Currents, Cape of, or Corrientes, ii. 415n, 417n, 426n Curtains, Persian, i. 66n Curzola Island, Genoese victory at, _6_, _45_ _seqq._; Polo’s galley at, _49_; map of, _50_ Curzon, Lord, i. 64n, 84n, 86n, 128n; list of Pamirs, ii. 594n —— Hon. R., on invention of printing, _138_, _139_ Customs, Custom-houses, ii. 37, 41n, 170, 204, 215, 216 Cutch pirates, ii. 410n Cuxstac, Kuhestec, i. 110n Cuy Khan (Kuyuk), i. 14n, 245, 247n Cycle, Chinese, i. 447, 454n _Cynocephali_, the, ii. 228n, 309, 311n Cypresses, sacred, of the Magians, i. 131n Cyprus, i. 65n Cyrus, his use of camels in battle near Sardis, ii. 104n

Dabul, ii. 443n _Dadian_, title of Georgian kings, i. 53n Da Gama, ii. 386n, 391n Dagroian, kingdom of, in Sumatra, ii. 293; probable position of, 297n Dailiu (Tali), ii. 81n Daïtu, Taidu, Tatu (Peking), Kúblái’s new city of Cambaluc, i. 305n, 306n, 374, 375n Dakiánús, city of (Camadi), i. 113n _Dalada_, tooth relique of Buddha, ii. 329n–330n Dalai Lama, with four hands, ii. 265n D’Alboquerque, ii. 281n, 382n, 409n, 451n Dalivar, Dilivar, Diláwar (Lahore), a province of India, i. 99, 104n, 105n Dalmian, ii. 297n Damas, i. 65n Damascus, i. 23n, 143; siege of, ii. 166n Damasks, with _cheetas_ in them, i. 398n; with giraffes, ii. 424n. (_See_ also Patterns.) Damghan, i. 138n, 148n Dancing dervishes, ii. 97n Dancing girls, in Hindu temples, ii. 345, 351n Dandolo, Andrea, Admiral of Venetian fleet at Curzola, _6_, _46_; his captivity and suicide, _48_; funeral at Venice, _50_ D’Anghieria, Pietro Martire, _36_, _120_ Dantapura, ii. 329n Dante, number of MSS., _117_; does not allude to Polo, _118_; _Convito_, i. 14n D’Anville’s Map, i. 25n, 88n, 155n, 224n, 228n, 297n, 408n, ii. 69n, 72n, 141n Darábjird, i. 86n Darah, ii. 436n Dárápúr, i. 104n, 105n _Dardas_, stuff embroidered in gold, i. 65n Dariel, Pass of (Gate of the Alans), i. 53n, 54n Darius, i. 128, 138n, 151, 157; the Golden King, ii. 17 Dark Ocean of the South, ii. 417n Darkness, magical, i. 98, 105n, 166 —— land of, ii. 484, 485n; how the Tartars find their way out, 484; the people and their peltry, 484; Alexander’s legendary entrance into, 485; Dumb trade of, 486n _Darráj_, black partridge, its peculiar call, i. 99n Darúná, salt mines, i. 154n Darwáz, i. 160n Dasht, or Plain, of Bahárak, i. 156n Dashtáb, hot springs, i. 122n Dasht-i-Lut (Desert of Lút), i. 124n, 127, 128n Dashtistan tribe and district, i. 86n Dates (chronology) in Polo’s book, generally erroneous, i. 2, 17, 36, 63, 145, 238, 332, ii. 98, 114, 145, 177, 259, 267, 268, 319, 354, 428, 459, 464, 474, 494 —— (trees or fruit), Basra, 63, 65n; Báfk, 88, 89n; Reobarles, province, 97, 111n; Formosa Plain, 107; Hormos, 109, 116n; wine of, 107, 115n; diet of fish, etc., 107, 116n, ii. 450 Daughters of Marco Polo, _69_, _71_, _73_, _76_, ii. 506n D’Avezac, M., i. 23n, 48n, 66n, 231n, 271n David, king of Abyssinia, ii. 435n, 436n David, king of Georgia (Dawith), i. 50, 53n Davids, Professor T. W. Rhys, _Buddhist Birth Stories_, ii. 326n Davis, Sir John F., ii. 139n, 142n, 152n, 173n, 175n, 176n, 182n Dawaro, ii. 435n, 436n Daya, ii. 300n, 305n Dead, disposal of the, in Tangut, i. 205, 209n; at Cambaluc, 414; in Coloman, ii. 122; in China, 133n; in Dagroian, 293; by the Battas, 298n —— burning of the, _see_ Cremation; eating the, _see_ Cannibalism De Barros, ii. 239n, 283n, 287n, 300n, 410n; on Java, 274n; Singhapura, 281n; Janifs, 286n Debt, singular arrest for, ii. 343, 350n _Decima_, or Tithe on bequest, _71_ Decimal organisation of Tartar armies, i. 261, 264n Decius, Emperor, i. 113n Degháns, Dehgáns, i. 152n Dehánah, village, i. 152n Deh Bakri, i. 111n, 112n De la Croix, Pétis, i. 9n, 155n, 183n, 239n, 243n, 281n, 410n Delhi, Sultans of, _12_, ii, 426n D’Ely, Mount, _see_ Eli Demoiselle Crane, _anthropoides virgo_, i. 297n Deogir, ii. 426n Derbend, Wall of, i. 53n, ii. 495. (_See_ also Iron Gate of.) Deserts, haunted, i. 197, 201n, 274 Deserts of Kerman or of Lút, i. 123, 124n; of Khorasan, 149; of Charchan, 194; Lop (Gobi), 196, 197, 198n–203n, 210, 212, 214n, 223; Karakorum, 224, 226, 237n Desgodins, Abbé, ii. 57n Despina Khatun, ii. 477n Devadási, ii. 351n Devapattan, ii. 400n Devéria, G., i. 29n, 225n, 291n, ii. 60n, 63n, 70n, 89n, 108n, 122n, 124n Devil-dancing, i. 315n, ii. 86, 97n Devil trees, i. 136n Devils, White, ii. 355, 359n D’Evreux, Father Yves, ii. 94n Dhafar (Dofar, Thafar), ii. 340, 348n, 444; its incense, 445; two places of the name, 445n–446n _Dhárani_, mystic charms, i. 315 Dhúlkarnain (Alex.), _see_ Zulkarnain Dialects, Chinese, ii. 236, 243n–244n Diamonds in India, how found, ii. 360–361; mines of, 362n; diffusion of legend about, _ib._ “Diex Terrien,” i. 141n Diláwar, Polo’s Dihar, i. 104n Dimitri II., Thawdadebuli, king of Georgia, i. 53n Dínár, _see_ Bezant Dinar of Red Gold, ii. 348n, 349n Dinh Tiên-hwàng, king of An-nam, i. 264n Diocletian, i. 14n _Dioscorides insula_, ii. 408n Dir, chief town of Panjkora, i. 104n, 164n, 165n Dirakht-i-Fazl, i. 135n, 138n Dirakht-i-Kush, i. 135n Diráwal, ancient capital of the Bhattis, i. 104n Dirhem-Kub, Shah Mahomed, founder of Hormuz dynasty, i. 115n, 121n Dish of Sakya or of Adam, ii. 328n, 330n Diu City, ii. 392n Diul-Sind, Lower Sind, i. 86n Divination by twigs or arrows, i. 241, 242n Dixan, branding with cross at, ii. 433n Dizabulus, pavilion of, i. 384n Dizfúl River, i. 85n Djao (Chao) Namian Sumé (Kaipingfu), i. 25n Djaya, turquoises, ii. 56n Doctors at Kinsay, ii. 203 Dofar, _see_ Dhafar Dogana, i. 151; conjectures as to, 152n, 156n Doghábah River, i. 152n Dog-headed races, ii. 309, 311n Dogs, the Khan’s mastiffs, i. 400; of Tibet, ii. 45, 49, 52n; fierce in Cuiju, 126 Dog-sledging in Far North, ii. 480, 481n, 482; notes on dogs, 483n Dolfino, Ranuzzo, husband of Polo’s daughter, Moreta, _76_ Dolonnúr, i. 26n Dominicans, sent with Polos but turn back, i. 22, 23 _D’or plain_, the expression, i. 269n Doráh Pass, i. 165n Doria, family at Meloria, _56_ —— Lampa, _6_; Admiral of Genoese Fleet sent to Adriatic, _45_; his victory, _48_; his tomb and descendants, _51_; at Meloria with six sons, _56_ —— Octaviano, death of, _48_ —— Tedisio, exploring voyage of, _51_ Dorjé, i. 360n D’Orléans, Prince Henri, i. 200n, 277n Douglas, Rev. Dr. C., ii. 232n, 237n, 240n, 241n, 244n Doyley, Sir Fulke, ii. 166n Dragoian (Ta-hua-Mien), ii. 297n, 306n _Draps entaillez_, i. 392 Drawers, enormous, of Badakhshan women, i. 160, 163n Dreams, notable, i. 305n Drums, sound of in certain sandy districts, 197, 202n _Dryabalanops Camphora_, ii. 303n Dua Khan, i. 121n, ii. 459n, 462n Du Bose, Rev. H. C., ii. 182n–184n Ducat, or sequin, i. 426n, ii. 591n Dudley, _Arcano del Mare_, ii. 266n Duel, mode in S. India of, ii. 371 Dufour, on mediæval artillery, ii. 161n, 163n Duhalde, Plan of Ki-chau, ii. 26n; or T’si-ning chau, ii. 139n Duḳuz Khatun, i. 288n Dulcarnon (Zulkarnain), i. 161n Dulites, ii. 432n Dumas, Alexander, i. 53n Dumb trade, ii. 486n Duncan, Rev. Moir, ii. 28n _Dungen_ (_Tungăni_), or converts, i. 291n Duplicates in geography, ii. 409n _Dupu_, ii. 397n Dürer’s Map of Venice, so-called, _29_, _30_ Durga Temple, ii. 383n Dursamand, ii. 427n _Dúsháb_, sweet liquor or syrup, i. 87n Dust-storms, i. 105n Duties, on Great Kiang, ii. 170; on goods at Kinsay and Zayton, 189, 215, 216, 235; on horses, 438; at Hormuz, 450. (_See_ also Customs.) Dutthagamini, king of Ceylon, i. 169n Dwara Samudra, ii. 294n, 367n, 427n Dzegun-tala, name applied to Mongolia, i. 214n Dzungaria, i. 214n

Eagle mark on shoulder of Georgian kings, i. 50 Eagles, trained to kill large game, i. 397, 399n —— white, in the Diamond Country, ii. 360–361 Eagle-wood, origin of the name, ii. 271n. (_See_ Lign-aloes.) Earth honoured, ii. 341 East, its state, _circa_ 1260, _8_ _et seqq._ Ebony (bonus), ii. 268, 272n Edkins, Rev., ii. 199n Edward I., _59_, _62_, _63_, i. 21n, ii. 593n Edward II., correspondence with Tartar princes, i. 36n, ii. 477n Effeminacy, in Chinese palaces, ii. 17, 20n, 145, 207, 208 Eggs of Ruc and Aepyornis, ii. 416n, 417n Egrigaia, province, i. 281, 282n Ela (cardamom), ii. 388n Elchidai, ii. 471, 474n Elenovka, i. 58n Elephantiasis, i. 187, 188n, ii. 350n Elephants, Kúblái carried on a timber bartizan by four, i. 337, 404, 408n; Kúblái’s, 391, 392n, ii. 104; the king of Mien’s, 99; numbers of men alleged to be carried by, 100n; how the Tartars routed, 102; wild, 107, 111, 117, 119n; in Caugigu, 117; Champa, 268, 271n; Locac, 276, 279n; Sumatra, 285, 289n, 290n; Madagascar and Zanghibar, 411, 422; trade in teeth of, _ib._; carried off by the Ruc, 412, 417n, 419n, 421n; in Zanghibar, 422, 423; used in war, 429, 433n–434n; an error, 433n; Nubian, 424n; fable about, _ib._; not bred in Abyssinia, 431; training of African, 434n; war of the, _ib._ Eli, Ely, Elly (Hili), kingdom of, ii. 385, 386n _seqq._, 403n, 426n Elias, Ney, i. 215n, 225n, 278n, 288n, 291n, ii. 23n, 144n Elixir vitae of the Jogis, ii. 365, 369n Elliot, Sir Walter, i. 38n, 48n, 56n, 65n, 96n, 102n, 104n, 105n, 121n, 165n, 265n, ii. 295n, 333n, 334n, 336n, 350n, 367n, 369n, 370n, 372n, 400n, 410n, 419n Emad, Ed-din Abu Thaher, founder of the Kurd dynasty, i. 85n Embroidery of silk at Kerman, i. 90, 96n; leather in Guzerat, ii. 394, 395n Empoli, Giovanni d’, ii. 239n _Empusa_, the Arabian Nesnás, i. 202n Enchanters, at Socotra, ii. 407 Enchantments, of the Caraonas, i. 98. (_See_ also Conjurers, Sorcerers.) Engano Island, legend, ii. 406n Engineering feat, _50_ Engineers, their growing importance in Middle Ages, ii. 166n England, Kúblái’s message to king of, i. 34; correspondence of Tartar princes with kings of, 36n, ii. 477n English trade and character in Asia, ii. 368n Enlightenment, Land of, i. 460n _Erba_, poisonous plant or grass, i. 217, 218n Erculin, Arculin (an animal), ii. 481, 483n, 484, 487 Erdeni Tso (Erdenidsu), or Erdeni Chao Monastery, i. 228n–230n Eremites (Rishis), of Kashmir, i. 166, 169n Erguiul, province, i. 274, 282n Erivan, i. 58n _Erkeun_ (_Ye li ke un_), Mongol for Christians, i. 291n Ermine, i. 257, 405, 410n, ii. 481, 484, 487 Erzinjan, Erzinga, Eriza (Arzinga), i. 45 Erzrum (Arziron), i. 45, 48n _Eschiel_, the word, ii. 390n Esher (Shehr, Es-shehr), ii. 442; trade with India, incense, Ichthyophagi, 442, 443, 444n; singular sheep, 443, 444n Essentemur (Isentimur), Kúblái’s grandson, king of Carajan, ii. 64, 80n, 98 _Estimo_, Venetian, or forced loan, _47_, _76_ Etchmiadzin Monastery, i. 61n Ethiopia and India, confused, ii. 432n Ethiopian sheep, ii. 422, 424n Etiquette of the Mongol Court, i. 382, 385n, 391, 393n, 457 Etymologies, _Balustrade_, _38_; buckram, i. 47n–48n; Avigi, 57n; Geliz (Ghellé), 59n; Jatolic, 61n; muslin, 62n; baudekins, 65n; cramoisy, 65n; ondanique, 93n; zebu, 99n; carbine, 101n; Dulcarnon, 161n; balas, 161n; azure and lazuli, 162n; None, 173n; Mawmet and Mummery, 189n; salamander, 216n; berrie, 237n; barguerlac, 272n; S’ling, 276n, 283n; siclatoun, 283n; Argon, 290n; Tungani, 291; Guasmul, 292n; chakór, 297n; Jádú and Yadah, 309n–310n; Tafur, 313n; Bacsi, 314n; Sensin, 321n; P’ungyi, 325n; _carquois_, 366n; Keshikán, 380n; vernique, 384n; camut, borgal, shagreen, 395n; Chinuchi or Chunichi, 401n; Toscaol, 407n; Bularguchi, 407n; Fondaco, 415n; Bailo, 421n; comercque, ii. 41n; porcelain, 74n; Sangon, 138n; Faghfúr, 148n; Manjanik, mangonel, mangle, etc., 163n–164n; galingale, 229n; Chini and Misri, 230n; Satin, 241n, 242n; eagle-wood, aloes-wood, 271n–272n; Bonús, Calamanz, _ib._; benzoni, 286n; china pagoda, 336n; Pacauca, 346n; Balánjar, a-muck, 347n–348n; Pariah, 349n; Govi, _ib._; Avarian, 355n–356n; Abraiaman, 367n; Choiach, 368n; proques, 370n; Tembul and Betel, 374n; Sappan and Brazil, 380n–381n; Balladi, _ib._; Belledi, 381n; Indigo baccadeo, 382n; Gatpaul, baboon, 383n–385n; Salami cinnamon, 391n; κώμακον, _ib._; rook (in chess), 419n; Aranie, 462n; Erculin and Vair, 483n; Misḳál, 592n —— (of Proper Names), Curd, i. 62n; Dzungaria, 214n; Chingintalas, _ib._; Cambuscan, 247n; Oirad, 308n; Kungurat, 358n; Manzi, ii. 144n; Bayan, 148n; Kinsay, 193n; Japan, 256n; Sornau, 279n; Narkandam, 312n; Ceylon, 314n; Ma’bar, 332n; Chilaw, 337n; Mailapúr, 359n; Sônagarpaṭṭanam, 372n; Punnei-Káyal, Káyal, _ib._; Kollam (Coilum), 377; Hili (Ely), 386n; Cambaet, 398n; Mangla and Nebila, 405n; Socotra, 408n; Colesseeah, 410n; Caligine, 439n; Aijaruc, 463; Nemej, 493n —— Chinese, ii. 119n Etzina, i. 223 Eunuchs, i. 356; procured from Bengal, ii. 115n Euphrates, i. 43n; said to flow into the Caspian, 52, 59n _Euphratesia_, i. 43n Euxine, _see_ Black Sea Evelyn’s _Diary_, i. 136n Execution of Princes of the Blood, mode of, i. 67n, 343, 344n Eyircayá, i. 281n

Facen, Dr. J., _139_ Faghfur (Facfur, Emperor of Southern China), ii. 145; meaning of title, 148n; his effeminate diversions, 207; decay of his palace, 208 Faizabad in Badakhshan, i. 156n, 163n, 173n, 175n Fákanúr, ii. 440n Fakata, ii. 260n Fakhruddin Ahmad, Prince of Hormuz, i. 121n, ii. 333n Falconers, Kúblái’s, i. 335, 402, 407n Falcons, of Kerman, i. 90, 96n; Saker and Lanner, 158, 162n; peregrine, 269; Kúblái’s, 402 Famine, horrors, i. 313n _Fanchán_, _P’ing-chang_, title of a second class Cabinet Minister, i. 432n, ii. 179n Fanchan Lake, ii. 29n Fan-ching, siege of, ii. 167n Fandaraina, ii. 386n, 391n, 440n _Fang_, _see_ Squares Fansur, in Sumatra, kingdom of, ii. 299, 302n Fansuri camphor, ii. 299, 302n Fan Wen-hu, or Fan-bunko, a General in Japanese Expedition, ii. 260n, 261n Fariáb, or Pariáb, i. 106n Faro of Constantinople, ii. 490 Farriers, none in S. India, ii. 340, 450 Fars, province, i. 85n, 92n, ii. 333n, 348n, 377n, 402n Fashiyah, Atabeg dynasty, i. 85n, 86n Fassa, i. 86n Fasting days, Buddhist, i. 220, 222n Fattan, in Ma’bar, ii. 333n, 336n Fatteh, ’Ali Sháh, i. 146n, 179n Fausto, Vettor, his Quinquereme, _33_ Fazl, Ibn Hassan (Fazluïeh-Hasunïeh), i. 86n Feili, Lurs dynasty, i. 84n Female attendants on Chinese Emperors, ii. 17, 20n, 147, 207, 208 Ferlec, in Sumatra, kingdom of (Parlák), ii. 284, 287n, 294n, 295n, 305n; Hill people, 284, 288n Fernandez, or Moravia, Valentine, ii. 295n Ferrier, General, i. 68n, 100n, 106n Festivals, Order of the Kaan’s, i. 386, 388n Fiag, or Pog River, i. 54n _Ficus Vasta_, i. 129n _Fidáwí_, Ismailite adepts, i. 144n, 145n Filial Piety in China, i. 457, 462n Filippi, Professor F. de, Silk industry in Ghílán, i. 59n Finn, i. 122n Fiordelisa, daughter of younger Maffeo Polo, _17_, _65_ —— supposed to be Nicolo Polo’s second wife, _17_, _26_, _27_ —— wife of Felice Polo, _27_, _65_ Firando Island, ii. 260n Firdús, Ismailite Castle, i. 148n Firdúsí, i. 93n, 130n Fire, affected by height of Pamir Plain, i. 171, 178n; regulations at Kinsay, ii. 189 Fire-baptism, ascribed to Abyssinians, ii. 427, 432n Fire-_Pao_ (cannon?), i. 342n, ii. 596n Fire-worship, or rockets, in Persia, i. 78, 80; by the Sensin in Cathay, 303, 325n Firishta, the historian, i. 104n, 169n Fish miracle in Georgia, i. 52, 57n, 58n; in the Caspian, 59n; and date diet, 107, 116n, ii. 450; supply at Kinsay, 202; food for cattle, 443, 444n; stored for man and beast, 443 Fish-oil, used for rubbing ships, i. 108, 117n Florin, or ducat, ii. 215, 591n Flour (Sago), trees producing, ii. 300, 304n, 305n Flückiger, Dr., ii. 226n Fog, dry, i. 105n Fo-kien, _see_ Fu-chau Folin (Byzantine Empire), ii. 405n Fondaco, i. 415n, ii. 238n Foot-mark on Adam’s Peak, _q.v._ Foot-posts in Cathay, i. 435 Forg, i. 86n Formosa, Plain (Harmuza), i. 107, 115n Forsyth, Sir T. Douglas, i. 193n, 194n, 216n, 400n Fortune, R., ii. 182n, 198, 220n, 222n, 224n, 229n, 233n Foundlings, provision for, ii. 147, 151n Four-horned sheep, ii. 443, 444n Fowls with hair, ii. 126, 129n Foxes, black, ii. 479, 481n, 484, 487 Fozlán, Ibn, i. 7n, 8n, ii. 348n, 488n _Fra terre_ (Interior), i. 43n Fracastoro, Jerome, _2_ Franciscan converts, in Volga region, i. 5n, 9n, ii. 491n; at Yang-chau, 154n; Zayton, 237n Francolin (darráj of the Persians), black partridge, i. 97, 99n, 107, 297n Frankincense, _see_ Incense Frederic II., Emperor, his account of the Tartars, i. 56n; story of implicit obedience, 144n; his _cheetas_, 398n; his leather money, 429n; his giraffe, ii. 424n French, the original language of Polo’s Book, _81_ _seqq._; its large diffusion in that age, _86_ _seqq._, _122_ French Expedition up the Kamboja River, ii. 57n, 67n, 80n, 120n Frenchmen, riding long like, ii. 78 French mission and missionaries in China, ii. 38n, 48n, 52n, 57n, 63n, 96n, 97n, 127n _Frère charnel_, i. 187n Frere, Sir B., i. 96n, 117n, 147n, ii. 395n, 424n Froissart, i. 17n, 42n, 68n Fu-chau (Fo-kien, Fuju), ii. 220n–222n, 224n, 226, 230, 231, 232n, 233n, 238n, 251n; paper-money at, i. 428n; wild hill people of, 225, 228n; its identity, 232n, 238n; language of, 243n; tooth relique at, 330n Fuen (Fen) ho River, ii. 17n Funeral rites, Chinese, in Tangut, i. 204; of the Kaans, 246, 250n; at Kinsay, ii. 191. (_See_ also Dead.) Fungul, city of, ii. 124, 127n Furs, of the Northern Regions, i. 257, 405, 410n, ii. 481, 483n, 484, 487 Fusang, Mexico(?), ii. 405n Fuyang, ii. 220n Fuzo, _see_ Fu-chau

Gabala, Bishop of, i. 231n Gagry, maritime defile of, i. 54n Gaisue, officer of Kúblái’s Mathematical Board, i. 449n _Galeasse_, Venetian gallery, _36_, i. 119n Galingale, ii. 225, 229n, 272 Galletti, Marco, _27_, ii. 512n Galleys of the Middle Ages, war, _31_ _seqq._; arrangement of rowers, _31–32_; number of oars, _32_, _33_; dimensions, _33_, _34_; tactics in fight, _38_; toil in rowing, _ib._; strength and cost of crew, _39_; staff of fleet, _39–40_; Joinville’s description of, _40_; customs of, _41_ Galley-slaves not usual in Middle Ages, _39_ Gambling, prohibited by Kúblái, i. 457 Game, _see_ Sport Game Laws, Mongol, i. 396, 406, ii. 13 Game, supplied to Court of Cambaluc, i. 396, 401 Ganapati Kings, ii. 362n Gandar, Father, ii. 139n, 153n Gandhára, ii. 114n, 329n, 330n; Buddhist name for Yun-nan, ii. 73n Ganfu, port of Kinsay, ii. 189 Ganja, gate of, i. 57n Gan-p’u, ii. 238n Gantanpouhoa, Kúblái’s son, i. 361n Gantûr, ii. 362n Gardenia, fruit and dyes, ii, 226n Gardiner’s (misprinted Gardner’s) _Travels_, i. 160n, 179n Gardner, C., ii. 196n, 198n Garmsir, Ghermseer (Cremesor), Hot Region, i. 75n, 99n, 112n, 114n Garnier, Lieut. Francis (journey to Talifu), ii. 38n, 48n, 57n, 58n, 60n, 64n, 67n, 74n, 80n, 90n, 91n, 95n, 99n, 117n, 120n, 122n, 123n, 128n, 130n, 198n, 278n Garrisons, Mongol, in Cathay and Manzi, i. 336n, ii. 190, 200n; disliked the people, 205 _Garuda_, ii. 351n, 415n, 419n Gate of Iron, ascribed to Derbend, i. 57n Gates, of Kaan’s palace, i. 363, 368n; of Cambaluc, 374, 377n; of Somnath, ii. 400–401 Gat-pauls, Gatopaul, Gatos-paulas, ii. 382, 383n, 385n _Gatto maimone_, ii. 383n Gauenispola Island, ii. 300, 307n Gaur (_Bos Gaurus_, _etc._), ii. 114n Gauristan, i. 86n Gavraz, village, i. 45n Gazaria, ii. 490, 492n Gedrosi, ii. 402n Gelath in Imeretia, Iron Gate at, i. 57n _Geliz_, Spanish for silk dealer, i. 59n Genealogy of Polos, _13_; errors as given by Barbaro, etc., in, _77–78_; tabular, ii. 506n; of House of Chinghiz, 505n Genoa, Polo’s captivity at, _6_, _48–55_ —— and Pisa, rivalry, and wars of, _41_, _56_ _seqq._ —— and Venice, rivalry and wars of, _41_ _seqq._ Genoese, their growth in skill and splendour, _42_; character as seamen by poet of their own, _43_; character by old Italian author, _48_; capture of Soldaia, i. 4n; their navigation of the Caspian, 52, 59n; trade in box-wood, 57n; their merchants at Tabriz, 75; in Fo-kien, ii. 238n Gentile Plural names converted into local singulars, i. 58n Geographical Text of Polo’s Book constantly quoted, its language, _83_; proofs that it is the original, _84_ _seqq._; tautology, _85_; source of other texts, _ib._ George (Jirjis, Yurji, Gurgán), king of Tenduc, of the time of Prester John, i. 284, 287n; a possible descendant of, 288n, ii. 460 Georgia (Georgiana), beauty of, and its inhabitants, i. 50–53n; their kings, 50, 52n Gerfalcons (Shonkár), i. 270, 273n, 299, 402, 404; tablets engraved with, 35, 351, 355n, ii. 487 Gerini, Colonel, ii. 596n German Follower of the Polos, ii. 159 Ghaiassuddin Balban (Asedin Soldan), Sultan of Delhi, i. 99, 104n, 105n Gháran country, ruby mines in, i. 161n Gházán (Casan) Khan of Persia, son of Arghún, i. 14n, 29n, 88n, 103n, 121n, 138n, 429n, ii. 50, 166n, 466n; his regard for the Polos, i. 35; marries the Lady Kukachin, 36, 38n, ii. 465n; his mosque at Tabriz, i. 76n; set to watch the Khorasan frontier, ii. 474, 475n; obtains the throne, 476; his object and accomplishments, 478n Ghel, or Ghelan (Ghel-u-chelan), Sea of, Caspian Sea, i. 52, 58n Ghellé (Gílí), silk of the Gíl province, i. 52, 59n Ghes, or Kenn (formerly Kish or Kais), i. 63, 64n _Ghez_ tree, i. 89n Ghiuju, ii. 219, 221n, 222n Ghiyas ed-din, last Prince of Kurd dynasty, i. 85n Ghori, or Aksarai River, i. 152n _Ghúls_, goblins, i. 202n Ghúr, i. 102n Giglioli, Professor H., _51_ Gíl, or Gílán, province, i. 59n Gilgit, i. 160n Gill, Captain (_River of Golden Sand_), i. 408n, ii. 40n, 57n, 59n, 80n–82n, 84n, 88n, 91n, 109n, 169n, 221n Ginao, Mt. and Hot Springs, i. 122n Gindanes of Herodotus, ii. 48 Ginger, ii. 22; Shan-si, 33; Caindu, 56; alleged to grow in Kiangnan, 181, 183n; Fuju, 224, 325; Coilum, 375, 381n; different qualities and prices of, 381n; Ely, 385, 388n; Malabar, 389; Guzerat, 393 Giraffes, ii. 413, 421n, 422, 431; mediæval notices of, 424n Girardo, Paul, _70_, ii. 511n Girdkuh, an Ismailite fortress, its long defence, i. 146n, 148n Girls, consecrated to idols in India, ii. 345–346 Gittarchan, _see_ Astrakhan Glaza (Ayas, _q.v._), _54_ Gleemen and jugglers, conquer Mien, ii. 110 Goa, ii. 358n, 451n Gobernador, Straits of, ii. 281n Goës, Benedict, _20_, i. 175n, 218n Gog and Magog (Ung and Mungul), legend of, i. 56n, 57n; rampart of, 57n; country of, 285; name suggested by Wall of China, 292n Gogo, ii. 398n Goître at Yarkand, i. 187, 188n Golconda diamond mines, ii. 362n Gold, Frankincense, and Myrrh, their mystic meaning, i. 79, 81n Gold dust in Tibet, ii. 49, 52n; exchanged for salt in Caindu, 54, 57n; Brius River, 56; in Kin-shia-Kiang, 72n; and nuggets in Carajan, 76; abundant in Yun-nan, 95n, 106; Caugigu, 116; Coloman, 123; infinite in Chipangu, 253, 256; in Sea of Chin Islands, 264; dust in Gulf of Cheinan Islands, 266; not found in Java, 274n; in Locac, 276; the Malayo-Siamese territories, 179n; Sumatra, 284, 287n; vast accumulations in South India, _12_, 340, 348n; imported into Malabar, 390; and into Cambay, 398; purchased in Socotra, 407 Gold and silver towers of Mien, ii. 110 —— cloths of, i. 41, 50, 60, 63, 65n, 75, 84, 285, 387, ii. 23. (_See_ Silk and Gold.) —— of the Gryphons in Herodotus, ii. 419n —— Teeth (Zardandan), Western Yunnan, ii. 84, 88n–91n —— to silver, relative value of, i. 426n, ii. 95n, 256n, 591n Golden King and Prester John, tale of the, ii. 17–22 —— Island, ii. 174n, 175, 176n, 310n —— Horde (kings of the Ponent), ii. 486n, 492n _Golfo, Indigo di_, ii. 382n Gomispola, Gomispoda, _see_ Gauenispola Gomushtapah, Wall of, i. 57n Gomuti palm, ii. 297n Gondophares, a king in the St. Thomas legends, ii. 357n Gordon’s “Ever Victorious Army,” ii. 179n Gordun Sháh, i. 120n Göring, F., i. 74n Goriosan, ii. 260n _Gor Khar_, wild ass, i. 89n Goshawks, i. 50, 57n, 96n, 252, 402; black, ii. 285, 345 Gothia (Crimean), ii. 490; its limit and language, 492n Govy, a low caste in Maabar, ii. 341, 349n, 355 Goza, i. 38n Gozurat, _see_ Guzerat Grail, Buddhist parallel to the Holy, ii. 328n, 330n Granaries, Imperial, i. 443 Grapes in Shan-si, ii. 13, 15n, 16n Grass-cloths, ii. 127n Grasso, Donato, _25_ Great Bear (Meistre), ii. 292, 296n; and Little, force of, and application of these epithets, 286n Great, or Greater Sea (Black Sea), i. 3n, ii. 487, 488, 490 Greece, Bactria’s relation to, i. 160n Greek fire, _38_, ii. 165n Greeks, in Turcomania, i. 43; and Greek tongue in Socotra, ii. 408n, 409n; possible relic of, 410n Green, Rev. D. D., ii. 193n —— Island, legendary, ii. 381n —— Islands, ii. 417n —— Mount, Cambaluc, i. 365, 370n —— R., _see_ Tsien Tang Gregorieff, his excavations at Sarai, i. 6n Gregory X., Pope, _see_ Theobald of Piacenza Grenard, i. 189n, 190n, 193n, 195n, 200n, 203n, 276n, 310n, 324n, 409n, ii. 5n, 27n Grioni, Zanino, ii. 517n _Griut_ (_kurut_), sour-curd, i. 265n Groat, Venetian _grosso_, i. 424, 426n, ii. 22, 66, 153, 181, 201, 225, 236, 354, 591n Groot, Professor, J. J. M. de, i. 209n, 251n, 268n, ii. 135n Grote, Arthur, ii. 444n Grueber and Dorville, Jesuit travellers, i. 276n _Grus_, _cinerea_, _antigone_, _leucogeranus_, _monachus_, i. 297n Gryphon, _see_ Ruc Guasmul (Basmul), half-breeds, i. 284, 292n Guchluk, i. 161n Gudar (village), i. 113n _Gudderi_, musk animals, Tibet, ii. 45, 49n Gudran, i. 126n Guebers, the, i. 88n, 96n Gujáh, Hulákú’s chief secretary, i. 33n _Gugal_, bdellium, ii. 397n Guilds of craftsmen at Kinsay, ii. 186 —— Venetian, _72_ Guinea-fowl, ii. 431, 437n Guions, a quasi-Tibetan tribe, ii. 60n Gumish-Khánah, silver mines, i. 49n Gunpowder, _138_ Gurgán, a Tartar chief, ii. 474n _Gurgán_, son-in-law, a title, i. 288n Gur-Khan of Karacathay, i. 233n Gutturals, Mongol elision of, i. 8n, 64n Guz = 100, i. 261, 263n Guzerat (Gozurat), ii. 389, 390, 392, 394n; products, mediæval architecture and dress, 393; work, 393–394, 395n

Haast, Dr., discovers a fossil Ruc, ii. 417n Habíb-ullah of Khotan, i. 189n Ḥabsh (Abash), _see_ Abyssinia Hadhramaut (_Sessania Adrumetorum_), i. 82n Hadiah, ii. 436n Haffer, ii. 445n Hai-nan, Gulf of, ii. 266n —— language of, ii. 244n Hairy men in Sumatra, ii. 301n Hajji Mahomed, i. 211n, 221n Hakeddin, ii. 436n Half-breeds, _see_ Argons Hamd Allah Mastaufi, the geographer, i. 76n, 81n, 84n, 92n, 135n Hamilton, Captain Alexander, i. 106n, 122n Hammer-Purgstall on Marco Polo, _115_ Hamúm Arabs, ii. 443n Hamza of Ispahan, i. 101n Hamza Pantsuri, or Fantsuri, ii. 303n Hanbury, D., ii. 183n, 226n, 229n Han-chung (Cuncun), ii. 31, 32n, 34n, 35n Hang-chau fu, _see_ Kinsay Han dynasty, i. 193n, 347n, ii. 32n, 35n, 70n —— River, ii. 34n, 35n, 149n, 167n Hanjám, i. 115n Han-kau, ii. 183n Hansi, ii. 427n Han Yü, ii. 81n _Harám_, i. 141n Harhaura, W. Panjáb, i. 104n Harlez, Mgr. de, i. 305n _Harmozeia_, i. 114n _Harpagornis_, fossil Ruc, ii. 417n Harran, i. 23n Harshadeva, king of Kashmir, i. 169n Harsuddi, temple of, ii. 349n Haru, or Aru, ii. 303n Hashíshín, _see_ Assassins Hásik, ii. 444n Hassán Kalá, hot springs at, i. 47n Hassan, son of Sabah, founder of the Ismailites, i. 141n Hastings, Warren, letter of, i. 57n Hatan, rebellion of, i. 346n Haunted deserts, i. 197, 201n, 274 Havret, Father H., ii. 155n, 212n _Ḥawáríy_ (Avarian), the term, ii. 356n Hawks, hawking in Georgia, i. 50, 57n; Yezd and Kerman, 88, 90, 96n; Badakhshan, 158, 162n; Etzina, 223; among the Tartars, 252; on shores and islands of Northern Ocean, 269, 273n; Kúblái’s sport at Chagannor, 296; in mew at Chandu, 299; trained eagles, 397, 399n; Kúblái’s establishment of, 402, 403, 407n, ii. 13; in Tibet, 50; Sumatra, 285; Maabar, 345 Hayton I. (Hethum), king of Lesser Armenia, _11_, i. 25n, 42n,