Supposed Effect On Population.
Pomilo (Pamir).
Pompholyx.
Ponent, Or West, Term Applied By Polo To Kipchak, The Mongol Khanate Of
The Volga, see Kipchak.
Pong (Mediaeval Shan State).
Poods, Russian.
Popinjays.
Population, vast, of Cathay.
Porcelain manufacture,
fragments found at
Kayal;
Chinese.
- - shells, see Cowries.
Porcupines.
Pork, mention of, omitted.
Postin, sheep-skin coat.
Posts, post-houses and runners,
in Siberia.
Po-sz' (Persia).
Potala at L'hasa.
Pottinger.
Poultry, kind of, in Coilum,
in Abyssinia (guinea-fowl?).
Pound, sterling.
Pourpre, or Purpura.
P'o-yang Lake.
Pozdneiev, Professor.
Precious stones or gems,
how discovered by pirates.
Prester John (Unc Can, Aung or Ung Khan),
Tartar tribute to;
account of;
marriage relations with Chinghiz;
insults Chinghiz' envoys;
"these be no soldiers";
marches to meet Chinghiz;
real site of battle with Chinghiz;
his real fate;
slain in battle;
his lineage in Tenduc;
and the Golden King.
Prices of horses, see Horses.
Printing, imaginary connection of Polo's name with introduction of.
Private names supposed.
Prjevalsky, Colonel N.M.
Probation of Jogis,
parallel.
Prophecy regarding Bayan.
Proques, the word.
Prostitutes; at Cambaluc,
Kinsay.
Provinces, thirty-four of Kublai's Empire.
Pseudo-Callisthenes.
Ptolemies' trained African elephants.
Ptolemy,
Sarmatic Gates.
P'u-chau fu.
Pu-ch'eng.
Puer and Esmok.
Pukan Mien-Wang.
Pulad Chingsang.
Pulisanghin, River and Bridge.
Pulo Bras.
Pulo Condore (Sondur and Condur).
Pulo Gommes (Gauenispola).
Pulo Nankai, or Nasi.
Pulo We, Wai, or Wey.
Punnei-Kayal.
Puranas, the.
Purpura, see Pourpre.
Putchok.
Putu-ho, "Grape R.".
Pygmies, factitious (?).
Qal'ah Asgher, hot springs at.
Qara Ars-lan Beg, king of Kerman.
Quails in India.
Queen of Mutfili.
Quicksilver and sulphur potion.
- - as regarded by alchemists.
Quills of the Ruc, see Ruc.
Quilon, Kaulam, etc., see Coilum.
Qumadin (Camadi)
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