Of Polo,
List Of Miniatures In.
Boeach, Mistake For Locac, And Its Supposed Position.
Boemond, Prince Of Antioch And Tripoli,
Letter of Bibar to.
Boga (Buka), a great Mongol officer, delivers Arghun.
Boghra Khan.
Bohea country.
Bohra, sect of W.
India.
Boikoff, Russian Envoy.
Bokhara (Bocara).
Boleyn, Anne, her use of buckram.
Bolgana, Queen, see Bulughan.
Bolgarskoye (called also Uspenskoye).
Bolghar, borgal, borghal, Russia leather.
Bolghar (Bolgara), on the Volga,
ruins of;
court of.
Bolivar, Padre, S.J., his account of the Condor (Rukh) of Africa.
Bolor.
Bombay.
Bonaparte, Prince Roland, Recueil des Documents de l'Epoque Mongole.
Bonga.
Bonheur, Rosa.
Boniface VIII., Pope.
Bonin, C.E.
Bonoccio di Mestro.
Bonpos, old Tibetan Sect.
Bonus, ebony.
Bonvalot.
Book of Marco Polo,
its contents;
original language, French;
oldest Italian MS.;
"Geographic Text," in rude French;
various types of Text -
(1) "Geographic,".
(2) Pauthier's MSS.
(3) Pipino's Latin,
Preface to;
Grynaeus' Latin;
Muellers' reprint.
(4) Ramusio's Italian edition,
its peculiarities;
probable truth about it;
bases of it.
MS. and some of its peculiarities;
general view of the relations of the texts;
notice of an old Irish version;
geographical data;
how far influenced in form by Rustician;
perhaps in description of battles;
diffusion and number of MSS.;
basis of present version;
specimens of different recensions of text;
distribution of MSS.;
miniatures in;
list of MSS.;
Tabular view of the filiation of chief MSS.;
Bibliography;
titles of works cited;
Spanish edition.
Bore in Hang-chau Estuary.
Borgal, see Bolghar.
Bormans, Stanislas.
Born, Bertram de.
Borneo, camphor, see Camphor.
- - tailed men of.
Boro Bodor, Buddhist Monument, Java.
Borrak, Amir, Prince of Kerman (Kutlugh Sultan?).
- - Khan of Chaghatai, see Barac.
Borus, the.
Bostam.
Boswellia thurifera,
serrata;
Carterii;
Bhauda-jiana;
papyrifera;
Frereana;
glabra.
Bouqueran, see Buckram.
Bourne, F.S.A.
Boxwood forests in Georgia.
Bozzi.
Bra, the word.
Bracelets, in Anin.
Bragadino, Marco, husband of Marco Polo's daughter, Fantina.
- - Pietro.
Brahmanical thread.
Brahmans (Abraiaman),
fish-charmers to the pearl fishery;
their character and virtues;
their king;
their omens;
longevity;
Chughi;
Palladian legend of.
Brahma's temple, Hang-chau.
Brahuis.
Brakhimof, early capital of Bulgaria.
Brambanan, ruins at.
Bran (Tibetan tsamba), parched barley.
Brazil wood, in Locac,
in Sumatra;
manner of growth;
in Ceylon;
in Coilum (Coilumin);
different kinds;
vicissitudes of the word;
its use prohibited by Painters' Guild.
Bread, bitter.
Brephung monastery.
Bretesche.
Bretschneider, Dr. Emil (Medical Researches), ruins of Bolghar,
the Uighur character;
Caucasian Wall;
use of muslin in Samarkand;
on nakh and nachetti;
Hulaku's expedition to West Asia;
an extract from the Yuean Si;
Badakhshan;
Kashgar;
Shachau;
Kamul;
Chingintalas;
the Stipa inebrians;
the Utiken Uigurs;
Erdenidso Monastery;
Belasagun;
death of Chinghiz;
tung lo or kumiz;
Kublai's death;
Peking;
verniques;
clepsydra;
the Bularguchi;
Achmath's biography;
paper-money;
post stations;
Chinese intoxicating drinks;
regulations for time of dearth;
Lu-Ku-K'iao Bridge;
introduction of plants from Asia into China;
morus alba;
Tibet;
bamboo explosions;
the Si-fans;
Cara-jang and Chagan-jang;
Nasr-uddin;
the Alans;
rhubarb in Tangut;
Polo's "large pears";
on galangal;
on sugar;
on Zayton;
on wood-oil;
on ostrich;
on Si-la-ni;
on frankincense;
on Magyars;
on Mongol invasion of Poland and Silesia.
Brichu (Brius, the Upper Kiang).
Bridges of Pulisanghin,
Sindafu (Ch'engtu);
Suchau;
Kinsay;
Kien-ning fu;
Fuchau;
Zayton, or Chinchau.
Brine-wells, see Salt.
Brius River (Kin-sha Kiang, Gold River).
Brown, G.G.
- - Sir Thomas,
on Polo.
Bruce's Abyssinian Chronology.
Brunetto Latini's Book, Li Tresor.
Brunhilda.
Bruun, Professor Ph., of Odessa.
Bucephala, of Alexander.
Bucephalus, breed of.
Buckrams, of Arzinga,
described;
etymology;
at Mardin;
in Tibet;
at Mutfili;
Malabar.
Buddha, see Sakya Muni.
Buddhism, Buddhists, see Idolatry, Idolaters.
Buddhist Decalogue.
Buffaloes in Anin.
Buffet and vessels of Kublai's table.
Bugaei.
Buka (Boga), a great Mongol chief.
Buka Bosha, 1st Mongolian Governor of Bokhara.
Buku Khan, of the Hoei-Hu, or Uighurs.
Bularguji (Bularguchi), "The Keeper of Lost Property".
Bulgaria, Great.
Bulughan (Bolgana), Queen.
- - another.
Bundukdar, Amir Alauddin Aidekin ("The Arblaster").
Bundukdari, Malik Dahir Ruknuddin Bibars (Bendocquedar), Mameluke Sultan
of Egypt,
killed by kumiz.
Buraets, or Burgats, the.
Burkan Kaldun.
Burma (or Ava), King of (See also Mien.).
Burnell, Arthur.
Burning the Dead, see Cremation.
- - heretical books.
- - paper-money, etc., at funerals.
- - Widows in South India.
Burrough, Christopher.
Burton, Captain R.F.
Bushell, Dr. S.W., his visit to Shang-tu,
on the Khitan Scripts;
Tangut rulers;
orders for post-horses.
Butchers, in Kashmir,
Tibet;
S. India.
Butiflis (Mutfili).
Butler, Hudibras.
Buyid dynasty.
Ca' Polo, Ca' Milion, Corte del Millioni, the house of the
Polos at Venice.
Caaju, castle of.
Cabs, Peking.
Cacanfu (Hokiang-fu).
Cachanfu (P'uchau-fu, Ho-chung-fu).
Cachar Modun.
Cachilpatnam.
Cadmia.
Caesalpinia; and see Brazil.
Caesarea of Cappadocia (Casaria, Kaisariya).
Caichu, castle of (Kiai-chau, or Hiai-chau?).
Caidu, see Kaidu.
Caiju, on the Hwang-Ho.
- - on the Kiang, Kwachau.
Cail (Kayal),
a great port of Commerce;
the king;
identified;
meaning of name;
remains of.
Caindu (K'ien-ch'ang), a region of Eastern Tibet.
Caingan (Ciangan, Kiahing).
Cairo,
museum at;
ventilators at. (See Babylon.).
Caiton, see Zayton.
Cala Ataperistan (Kala' Atishparastan), "Castle of the Fire Worshippers".
Calachan (Kalajan).
Calaiate, Calatu, see Kalhat.
Calamanz, the word.
Calamina, city.
Caldwell, Rev. Dr. R., on devil-dancing among the Shanars,
on name of Ceylon;
on Shahr-Mandi and Sundara Pandi;
on the Tower at Negapatam;
etymology of Chilaw;
on Pacauta;
Govis;
singular custom of arrest;
rainy season;
food of horses;
Shanar devil-images;
choiach;
Cail, or Kayal city;
Kolkhoi;
King Ashar of Cail;
Kollam;
Pinati;
etymology of Sapong;
Cape Comorin.
Calendar, Ecclesiastical Buddhist,
the Tartar;
of Brahmans;
of Documents relating to Marco Polo and his family.
Calicut,
King of, and his costume.
Calif, see Khalif.
Caligine, Calizene (Khalij, a canal from Nile).
Camadi (City of Dakianus) ruined.
Cambaluc (Khanbaligh, or Peking), capital of Cathay,
Kublai's return thither after defeating Nayan;
the palace;
the city;
its size, walls, gates, and streets, the Bell Tower, etc.;
period of khan's stay there;
its suburbs and hostelries;
cemeteries, women, patrols;
its traffic;
the Emperor's Mint;
palace of the Twelve Barons;
roads radiating from;
astrologers of.
Cambay (Cambaet, Cambeth, Kunbayat), kingdom of.
Cambuscan, of Chaucer, corruption of Chinghiz.
Camel-bird, see Ostrich.
Camels, mange treated with oil,
camlets from wool of;
white;
incensing;
alleged to be eaten in Madagascar;
really eaten in Magadoxo;
ridden in war.
Camexu, Kamichu, see Campichu.
Camlets (cammellotti).
Camoens.
Camphor (Laurus Camphora) trees in Fo-kien.
- - of Sumatra,
Fansuri;
earliest mention of:
superstitions regarding;
description of the tree, Dryabalanops Camphora;
value attached by Chinese to;
recent prices of;
its use with betel.
- - oil.
Campichu (Kanchau), city of.
Camul (Kamul), province.
Camut, fine shagreen leather.
Canal, Grand, of China.
construction of.
Canale, Cristoforo, MS.
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