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Money, paper, i. 423–425, 426n–430n —— values, i. 426n, ii. 590n–592n Mongol conquests, _9_, _10_; capture Soldaia, i. 4n; Bolghar, 7n, 8n; treachery and cruelty, 61n, 151n, 265n, ii. 181n; their inroads, i. 105n; Balkh city, 151n; invade Balakhshán, 161n; invasion of Poland and Silesia, ii. 493n Mongon Khan, _see_ Mangu Mongotay (Mangkutai), a Mongol officer, ii. 136, 138n Monkeys, ii. 285, 382, 431; passed off as pygmies, 285, 383n–385n Monks, idolatrous, i. 303. (_See_ Monasteries.) Monnier, Marcel, his visit to Karakorum, i. 230n; on the Ch’êng-tu Suspension Bridge, ii. 41n Monoceros and Maiden, legend of, ii. 285, 291n Monophysitism, i. 61n Monsoons, _23_, ii. 264–265 Montecorvino, John, Archbishop of Cambaluc, i. 117n, 287n, 289n, 346n, ii. 180n Monte d’Ely, ii. 386n, 387n Montgomerie, Major T. G. (R.E.) (Indian Survey), on fire at great altitudes, i. 178n; position of Kashgar and Yarkund, 182n Monument at Si-ngan fu, Christian, ii. 27n, 28n Moon, Mountains of the, ii. 415n, 420n, 421n Moore, _Light of the Harem_, i. 115n Moplahs, _see_ Mapillas Morgan, E. Delmar, i. 176n, 198n, 207n Mortagne, siege of, ii. 165n _Morus alba_, silk-worm tree, ii. 25n Moscow, Tartar Massacre at, ii. 493n Mosolin, or Muslin (Mosolini), _Mo-sze_, Arab Mauçili, i. 60, 62n, ii. 363n, 408n Mossos, a tribe, ii. 60n, 63n Mosta’sim Billah, last Abbaside Khalif of Baghdad, story of his avarice and death, i. 63–64, 67n _Mostocotto_, i. 87n Mosul (Mausul), i. 46, 60, 61n, 62n Motapallé, _see_ Mutfili Motawakkil, Khalif, i. 131n Moule, Bishop G. E., ii. 194n–198n, 209n–213n, 215n Mount, Green, in Palace grounds at Peking, i. 365, 370n, 372n —— St. Thomas, ii. 356n, 358n —— D’Ely, _see_ Monte d’Ely Mountain, Old Man of the, _see_ Old Man of the —— Miracle of the, i. 68–73 —— Road in Shensi, extraordinary, ii. 32n Mourning customs, at Hormuz, i. 109; in Tangut, 204; at Kinsay, ii. 191 Mozambique Channel, ii. 415n Muang, term applied in Shan countries (Laos and W. Yunnan) to fortified towns, as:— Muang-Chi, ii. 67n Muang, or Maung Maorong, ii. 79n, 113n Muang Shung, ii. 120n Muang Yong, ii. 57n, 117n, 128n Muláhidah (Mulehet, Alamút, Chinese Mulahi), epithet of Ismaelites,