Chapter 149

Cloths of Tartary, 295n; Trees of the Sun, 130n; Dry Tree, 131n; his Book of Travels, ii. 598n, 605n; English version, 601n; his tomb, 604n Maung Maorong, or Pong, Shan kingdom, ii. 79n, 113n Mauro, Fra, his map, i. 6, 133, ii. 128n Mausul (Mosul), kingdom of, i. 46, 60, 61n, 62n _Mauvenu_ (Malvennez), the phrase, ii. 21n, 473n Mayers, W. F., ii. 150n, 596n Mayhew, A. L., on _Couvade_, ii. 93n Mazandéran, province, i. 59n _Mecchino_, Ginger, ii. 381n Medressehs at Sivas, i. 45n Mekhitar, i. 45n Mekong River (Lan-tsang kiang), ii. 88n, 128n, 278n Mekrán, often reckoned part of India, ii. 402n, 403n, 405n Mekranis, i. 106n Melchior, one of the Magi, i. 78, 82n Melibar, _see_ Malabar Melic, the title, ii. 449, 450, 470n Melons, dried, of Shibrgán, i. 149, 150n Menangkabau, ii. 286n, 301n Mendoza, i. 8n Menezes, Duarte, ii. 358n Mengki, envoy to Java, ii. 75n Menjar (Májar?), ii. 490, 491n Menuvair and Grosvair, ii. 483n Merghuz Boirúk Khan, ii. 19n Merkit (Mecrit, Mescript), a Tartar tribe, i. 236n, 269, 271n Meshid (more correctly Mashhad), i. 150n, 155n, 156n, 193n Messengers, Royal Mongol, i. 36n Mexico, ii. 405n Meyer, Paul, _Alexandre le Grand_, i. 56n Miafaraḳain, i. 68n Miau-tzu, ii. 82n Mien, Amien, Ava (Burma), king of, his battle with Tartars, ii. 98n; City of, 99n, 109; its gold and silver towers, 110; how it was conquered, 110, 111n; communications and war with Mongols, 104; Chinese notices, 104n Mikado, ii. 262 Military engines of the Middle Ages, dissertation on, ii. 161n; two classes, 161n; _Trébuchets_, 161n, 163n, 164n; Balista, 161n; shot used, carrion, live men, bags of gold, 163n; _Mangonel_, 163n, 169n; Napoleon’s experiments with heavy shot, 164n, 165n; size and accuracy, 165n; length of range (Sanudo on), 166n; effect of Mangonel on Saracens, 166n; procured by Kúblái for siege of Siang-yang, 167n; Chinese and Persian histories on, 167n–169n; known to Mongols and Chinese, 168n; the _Ḳarábughá_, or _Calabra_, 168n; the _P’ao_, 169n Milk, portable, or curd, i. 262, 265n Milk, rite of sprinkling Mare’s, i. 300, 309n, 411 Million, use of the numeral, _67_, ii. 215, 217n Millione, Millioni, nickname for Polo and his book, _6_, _54_, _119_,