Chapter 163

Tanjore, ii. 334n, 335n; Suttee at, 349n; Pagoda at, 352n; fertility of, 368n Tánkíz Khan, applied to Chinghiz, i. 247n Tanpiju (Shaohing?), ii. 218 Tantras, Tantrika, Tantrists, i. 315n, 323n, 326n Tao-lin, a Buddhist monk, i. 165n Tao-sze (Taossé), sect, i. 321n–325n; female idols of the, 303, 327n Ta-pa-Shan range, ii. 34n, 35n Taprobana, mistakes about, ii. 295n Tarakai, ii. 475n Tarantula, ii. 346, 364 _Tarcasci_, i. 366n Tarem, or Tárum, i. 86n, 122n Tares of the parable, i. 122n Taríkh-i-Rashídí, i. 194n Tarmabala, Kúblái’s grandson, i. 361n _Tarok_, Burmese name for Chinese, ii. 113n Tarok Man and Tarok Myo, ii. 113n Tartar language, i. 12; on Tartar, its correct form, 12n; misuse by Ramusio, 458n Tartars, i. 1, 4, 5, 10, 13, 50, 90, 97, 99, 110n, 121n, 151; different characters used by, 28n; identified with Gog and Magog, 57n; ladies, 76n; their first city, 226; original country, tributary to Prester John, _ib._; revolt and migration, 227; earliest mention of the word, 230n; make Chinghiz their king, 238; his successors, 245; their customs and religion, 249n, 251, 256; houses, 252, 253n; waggons, 252, 254n; chastity of their women, 252, 256n; polygamy, etc., 252, 256n; their gods and idols, 256; their drink (Kumiz), 257, 259n; cloths, 257, 295n; arms, horses, and war customs, 260–263; military organization, 261, 263n; sustenance on rapid marches, 261; blood-sucking, 261, 264n; portable curd, 262, 265n; tactics in war, 262, 265n; degeneracy, 263, 266n; administration of justice, 266; laws against theft, 266, 268n; posthumous marriage, 267, 268n; the cudgel, 266, 267n; Rubruquis’ account of, 236n; Joinville’s, 237n; custom before a fight, 337; want of charity to the poor, 445; conquerors of China, history of, ii. 20; excellence in archery, 102; objection to meddling with things pertaining to the dead, 111; admiration of the Polo mangonels, 160; employment of military engines, 168n; their cruelties, 180n; arrows, 460; marriage customs, i. 33n, 252–253, ii. 467 —— in the Far North, ii. 479 —— of the Levant, _see_ Levant —— of the Ponent, _see_ Ponent Tartary cloths, i. 257, 295n Tarungares, tribe, ii. 298n Tásh Kurgán, i. 172n, ii. 594n Tataríya coins, i. 12n Tathung, or Taitongfu, i. 245n, 286n, 289n Ta-t’sien-lu, or Tachindo, Tartsédo, ii. 45n, 48n, 49n, 52n, 60n, 67n, 70n Ta Tsing River, ii. 137n, 143n Tattooing, ii. 84, 90n, 117, 119n, 131n, 235, 242n, 297n; artists in, 235, 242n Tatu (Taichu), i. 374 —— River, ii. 61n Tauris, _see_ Tabriz Taurizi, Torissi, i. 74, 75n Tawálisi, ii. 465n Taxes, _see_ Customs, Duties Tchakiri Mondou (Modun), i. 404, 408n _Tchekmen_, thick coarse cotton stuff, i. 190n Tea-houses at Kingszé, ii. 196n Tea trees in E. Tibet, ii. 59n Tebet, _see_ Tibet Tedaldo, _see_ Theobald Teeth, custom of casing in gold, ii. 84, 88n–91n —— of Adam or of Buddha, ii. 319, 329n–330n —— conservation of, by Brahmans, ii. 365 Tegana, ii. 471 Teghele, Atabeg of Lúr, i. 85n Teimur (Temur), Kúblái’s grandson and successor, i. 360, ii. 149, 459n Tekla, Hamainot, ii. 356 Tekrit, i. 61n Telingana, _see_ Tilinga Telo Samawe, ii. 295n Tembul (Betel), chewing, ii. 371, 374n Temkan, Kúblái’s son, i. 361n Temple, connection of Cilician Armenia with Order of, i. 24n —— Master of the, i. 23, 24n Temple’s account of the Condor, ii. 417n Temujin, _see_ Chinghiz Tenduc, or Tanduc, plain of, i. 240, 241; province of, 284, 286n Tengri, Supreme deity of Tartars, i. 257n–258n Tennasserim, ii. 279n; (Tanasari), 314n Tents, the Khan’s, i. 404, 409n Terebinth, i. 125n; of Mamre, 132n, 135n _Terlán_, goshawk, i. 57n Teroa Mountains, ii. 420n Terra Australis, ii. 274n Te-Tsung, Emperor, ii. 28n Thai, Great and Little, ii. 287n; race, 278n Thaigin, ii. 25n, 26n Thai-yuanfu (Taianfu), ii. 12, 14n–17n _Thard-wahsh_, _see_ Patterns, Beast and Bird Theft, Tartar punishment of, i. 266, 268n Theistic worship, i. 456, 458n Thelasar, ii. 431n Theobald, or Tedaldo of Piacenza, i. 17, 20, 21n, ii. 593n; chosen Pope as Gregory X., i. 20; sends friars with the Polos and presents, 22, 23n Theodorus, king of Abyssinia, ii. 436n Theodosius the Great, i. 49n Theophilus, Emperor of Constantinople, i. 385n —— missionary, ii. 409n Thévenot, _Travels_, i. 81n Thian Shan, i. 175n, 177n, 191n Thianté-Kiun, i. 286n Thin l’Evêque, siege of, ii. 163n, 165n _Thinae_ of Ptolemy, ii. 27n Tholoman, _see_ Coloman Thomas, Edward, i. 87n, ii. 115n, 164n —— of Mancasola, Bishop of Samarcand, i. 186n Thread, Brahmanical, ii. 363 Three kingdoms (San-Kwé), ii. 38n Threshold, a great offence to step on the, i. 383, 385n Thurán Shah’s History of Hormuz, i. 120n Tibet (Tebet) province, ii. 42, 49; boundary of, 49, 52n; its acquisition by Mongols, 46n; organisation under Kúblái, 46n; dogs of, 45, 49, 52n Tibetan language and character, i. 29n; origin of the Yue-chi, 174n Tibetans, i. 165n; superstitions of, 208n, 209n; and Kashmiris (Tebet and Keshimur), sorceries of, 301, 315n; accused of cannibalism, 301, 312n Tides in Hang-chau estuary, ii. 150n, 208n Tierce, half-tierce, etc., hours of, ii. 364, 368n Tiflis, i. 49n, 57n, 58n Tigado, Castle of, i. 148n Tigers (called lions by Polo), ii. 225, 231n, 411; trained to the chase, i. 397, 399n; in Cuncun, ii. 31; in Caindu, 56; Kwei-chau, 127n. (_See_ also Lions.) Tigris River (Volga), i. 5, 9n; at Baghdad, 63, 64n Tigúdar (Acomat Soldan), ii. 468n Tiju, ii. 153, 154n Tiles, enamelled, i. 364, 370n Tilinga, Telingana, Tiling, Telenc, ii. 362n, 427n Tiling, ii. 427n Timur of Toumen, chief of the Nikoudrians, i. 102n Timur the Great, i. 5n, 9n, 45n, 49n, 52n, 61n, 86n, 152n, 155n, 187n, ii. 166n Timurids, the, i. 85n Ting, 10 taels of silver = tael of gold, i. 427n, ii. 217n, 218n Tinju, ii. 153, 154n Tinnevelly, ii. 359n, 373n, 403n Tithe on clothing material, i. 445 Tithing men, Chinese (_Pao-kia_), ii. 200n Titus, Emperor, i. 66n Tjajya, _see_ Choiach Toba race, i. 205n Toctai, king, _see_ Toktai Tod, Colonel James, i. 104n, 114n, 169n, 183n Toddy, _see_ Wine of Palm Togan, ii. 471, 474n Toghrul I., i. 49n —— Shah of Kermán, i. 113n Toghon Temur, last Mongol Emperor, i. 228n; his wail, 305n Togrul Wang Khan, _see_ Prester John Toka Tumir, i. 8n Tokat, i. 45n Toktai Khan (Toctai, Lord of the Ponent), _72_, ii. 487, 491, 496; wars with Noghai, 499; his symbolic message, 497n, 498n Tolan-nur (Dolonnúr), i. 26n Toleto, John de, Cardinal Bishop of Portus, i. 21n Tolobuga, ii. 496, 497n Toman (Tuman, etc.), Mongol word for 10,000, i. 261, 263n, ii. 192, 200n, 217n, 218n, 462n Tongking, Tungking, ii. 119n, 120n, 128n, 131n Tooth-relique of Buddha, ii. 319–320; history of, 329n–330n Torchi, Dorjé, Kúblái’s first-born, i. 361n Tornesel, i. 423, 426n Torro River, i. 345n Torshok, ii. 489n Torture by constriction in raw hide, i. 262n _Toscaul_, _tosḳáúl_ (_toscaol_), watchman, i. 403, 407n Tournefort, on cold at Erzrum, i. 49n Tower and Bell Alarm at Peking, i. 375, 378n; at Kinsay, ii. 189 Toyan (Tathung?), i. 286n Trade at Layas, i. 41; by Baghdad, 63; at Tauris, 75; at Cambaluc, 415; in Shan-si, ii. 22; on the Great Kiang, 36, 170; at Chinangli, 135; at Sinju Matu, 138; Kinsay, 187, 190, 202, 216; Fu-chau 231; Zayton 234; Java, 272; Malaiur, 280; Cail, 370; Coilum, 375; Melibar, 389; Tana, 395; Cambaet, 398; Kesmacoran, 401; Socotra, 407 —— of India with Hormuz, i. 107; with Egypt by Aden, ii. 438, 439n; with Esher, 442; with Dofar, 444; with Calatu, 450 Trades in Manzi, alleged to be hereditary, ii. 186, 196n _Tramontaine_, ii. 296n Transmigration, i. 456, ii. 213n, 318–319 Traps for fur animals, ii. 481, 483n Travancore, ii. 383n, 403n; Rajas of, 380n Treasure of Maabar kings, ii. 340, 348n–349n Trebizond, _43_, i. 19n, 36, 46; Emperors of, and their tails, ii. 302n Trebuchets, ii. 159, 160n, 161n Trees, of the Sun and Moon, i. 129n, 130n; superstitions about, 131n–135n; by the highways, 440; camphor, ii. 234, 237n; producing wine, 292, 297n, 300, 313; producing flour (sago), 300, 304n–305n _Tregetoures_, i. 386n Trench, Archbishop, i. 201n, ii. 82n Trevisano, Azzo, _8_, _17_, _25_, _65_ —— Marc’Antonio, Doge, _8_, _78_ Trincomalee, ii. 337n Tringano, ii. 279n Trinkat, ii. 308n ‘Trusty lieges,’ devoted comrades of king of Maabar, ii. 339, 347n T’sang-chau, ii. 133n, 137n _T’siang-kiun_ (‘General’), ii. 138n, 261n Ts’ien-T’ang River, ii. 194n, 198n, 208n, 214n, 220n–222n; bore in, 150n, 208n T’si-nan-fu (Chinangli), ii. 137n, 138n T’sing-chau, ii. 138n T’sing-ling range, ii. 35n T’si-ning-chau, ii. 137n, 139n Tsin-tsun, ii. 229n Tsiuan-chau, T’swanchau, _see_ Zayton Tsongkhapa, Tibetan Reformer, i. 315n Ts’uan-chou, _see_ Zayton Tsukuzi in Japan, ii. 260n Tsung-ngan-hien, ii. 224n Tsushima, Island, ii. 260n Tuan, Prince, chief of the Boxers, i. 282n _Tuc_, _tuk_, _tugh_, commanders of 100,000, horse-tail or yak-tail standard, i. 261, 263n Tudai, Ahmad Khan’s wife, ii. 471n Tudai-Mangku (Totamangu or Totamangul), ii. 491, 492n, 496, 497n, 499 Tu-fan, ancient name of Tibet, ii. 46n Tughan, Tukan, Kúblái’s son, i. 361n, ii. 270n Tughlak Shah, of Delhi (a Karaunah), i. 101n Tuktugai Khan, i. 9n Tu-ku-hun, i. 193n Tuli, or Tulin, fourth son of Chinghiz, ii. 32n Tuman, _see_ Toman Tumba, Angelo di, _25_; Marco di, _65_ Tún, city of E. Persia, i. 86n, 124n Tung-’an in Fokien, ii. 243n _Tungani_, or Converts, Mahomedans in N. China and Chinese Turkestan,