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ships, 108; great heat and fatal wind, 108, 109, 119n, 120n; crops, mourning customs, i. 109; the king of, 110; another road to Kerman from, 110, 122n; route from Kerman to, 110n; site of the old city, _ib._; foundation of, 115n; history of, 120n; merchants, ii. 340; horses exported to India from, 348n; the Melik of, 449, 450, 451 —— Island, or Jerun, i. 110n, 111n, ii. 451n; Organa of Arian, i. 115n, 121n Hormuzdia, i. 111n Horns of _Ovis Poli_, i. 171, 176n Horoscopes, in China, i. 447, ii. 191; in Maabar, 344 Horse-posts and Post-houses, i. 433, 437n Horses, Turkish, i. 43, 44n; Persian, 83, 86n; of Badakhshan, strain of Bucephalus, 158, 162n; sacrificed at Kaans’ tombs, 246; Tartar, 260, 264n; and white mares, 300, 308n; presented to Kaan on New Year’s Day, 390; of Carajan, ii. 64, 78, 81n; their tails docked, 82n; of Anin, 119; tracking by, 174n; decorated with Yaks’ tails, 355; now bred in S. India, 340, 342, 348n, 350n, 438, 450 —— great trade and prices in importing to India from Persia, i. 83, 86n; modes of shipment, 108, 117n; from Carajan, ii. 78; from Anin, 119; from Kis, Hormuz, Dofar, Soer, and Aden, 340, 348n, 370, 395, 438; Esher, 442; Dofar, 444; Calatu, 450, 451n —— duty on, 438; captured by pirates, 395; their extraordinary treatment and diet in India, 340, 345, 348n–349n, 351n, 450 Horse-stealing, Tartar laws _v._, i. 266 Hosie, A., ii. 131n; on Ch’êng-tu, 40n; brine-wells of Pai-yen-ching, 58n; on the Si-fan, 60n, 61n; on Caindu Lake, 72n Hospitals, Buddhist, i. 446n Hostelries, at Cambaluc, i. 412; on the Cathay post-roads, 434, ii. 32n; at Kinsay, 193 Hot springs in Armenia, i. 45, 46n; near Hormuz, 110, 122n Hounds, Masters of Kaan’s, i. 400–401n Hours, struck from Cambaluc bell-tower, i. 373, 414; at Kinsay, ii. 188; unlucky, 364, 368n; canonical, 368n, 369n Hsi Hsia dynasty, i. 205n _Hsiang-Chên_, _Hsiang_, wood, ii. 301n Hu-chau fu (Vuju), ii. 184n Hui-hui, white and black capped, two Mohammedan sects, ii. 30n, Hukaji (Hogáchi, Cogachin), Kúblái’s son, i. 361n, ii. 76, 80n Hukwan-hien, ii. 230n Hulákú Khan (Alau, Alacon), Kúblái’s brother, and founder of Mongol dynasty in Persia, _10_, i. 5, 10, 61n, 64n, 334n; war with Barka Khan, 8n, 103n; takes Baghdad and puts Khalif to death, 63, 66n, 85n, 86n; the Ismailites and the Old Man, 145, 245, 247n —— his treachery, ii. 181n; his descendants, 477; battle with Barca, 494; his followers, 495 Hullukluk, village, near Sivas, i. 45n Human fat, used for combustion in war, ii. 180n —— sacrifices, i. 208n Humáyún, Emperor, i. 155n, 277n Humboldt, _106_, _107_, _110_, _120_, i. 178n Hunáwar (Onore, Hinaur), ii. 390n, 440n Hundred Eyes, prophecy of the, ii. 145, 146, 149n _Hundwáníy_ (ondanique), Indian steel, i. 93n Hungary, Hungarians, ii. 286n, 492n Hung Hao, Chinese author, i. 212n Hun-ho (Sanghin River), ii. 5n, 6n Hunting equipment and Expedition, Kúblái’s, i. 397, 398n, 404; Kang-hi’s, 407n —— preserves, ii. 13. (_See_ also Sport.) Hutton, Captain, i. 100n Hwa-chau, ii. 29n Hwai-lu, or Hwo-lu-h’ien (Khavailu), the Birmingham of N. Shansi,