(See Silk And Gold.).
- - Of The Gryphons In Herodotus.
- - Teeth (Zardandan), Western Yun-Nan.
- - To Silver, Relative Value Of.
Golden
King and Prester John, tale of the.
- - Island.
- - Horde (kings of the Ponent).
Golfo, Indigo di.
Gomispola, Gomispoda, see Gauenispola.
Gomushtapah, Wall of.
Gomuti palm.
Gondophares, a king in the St. Thomas legends.
Gordon's "Ever Victorious Army".
Gordun Shah.
Goering, F.
Goriosan.
Gor Khar, wild ass.
Goshawks,
black.
Gothia (Crimean),
its limit and language.
Govy, a low caste in Maabar.
Goza.
Gozurat, see Guzerat.
Grail, Buddhist parallel to the Holy.
Granaries, Imperial.
Grapes in Shan-si.
Grass-cloths.
Grasso, Donato.
Great Bear (Meistre),
and Little, force of, and application of these epithets.
Great, or Greater Sea (Black Sea).
Greece, Bactria's relation to.
Greek fire.
Greeks, in Turcomania,
and Greek tongue in Socotra;
possible relic of.
Green, Rev. D.D.
- - Island, legendary.
- - Islands.
- - Mount, Cambaluc.
- - R., see Tsien Tang.
Gregorieff, his excavations at Sarai.
Gregory X., Pope, see Theobald of Piacenza.
Grenard.
Grioni, Zanino.
Griut (kurut), sour-curd.
Groat, Venetian grosso.
Groot, Professor, J.J.M. de.
Grote, Arthur.
Grueber and Dorville, Jesuit travellers.
Grus, cinerea, antigone, leucogeranus, monachus.
Gryphon, see Rue.
Guasmul (Basmul), half-breeds.
Guchluk.
Gudar (village).
Gudderi, musk animals, Tibet.
Gudran.
Guebers, the.
Gujah, Hulaku's chief secretary.
Gugal, bdellum.
Guilds of craftsmen at Kinsay.
- - Venetian.
Guinea-fowl.
Guions, a quasi-Tibetan tribe.
Gumish-Khanak, silver mines.
Gunpowder.
Gurgan, a Tartar chief.
Gurgan, son-in-law, a title.
Gur-Khan of Karacathay.
Gutturals, Mongol elision of.
Guz=100.
Guzerat (Gozurat),
products, mediaeval architecture and dress;
work.
Haast, Dr., discovers a fossil Rue.
Habib-ullah of Khotan.
Habsh (Abash), see Abyssinia.
Hadhramaut (Sessania Adrumetorum).
Hadiah.
Haffer.
Hai-nan, Gulf of.
- - language of.
Hairy men in Sumatra.
Hajji Mahomed.
Hakeddin.
Half-breeds, see Argon.
Hamd Allah Mastaufi, the geographer.
Hamilton, Captain Alexander.
Hammer-Purgstall on Marco Polo.
Hamum Arabs.
Hamza of Ispahan.
Hamza Pantsuri, or Fantsuri.
Hanbury, D.
Han-chung (Cuncun).
Hang-chau fu, see Kinsay.
Han dynasty.
- - River.
Hanjam.
Han-kau.
Hansi.
Han Yu.
Haram.
Harhaura, W. Panjab.
Harlez, Mgr. de.
Harmozeia.
Harpagornis, fossil Ruc.
Harran.
Harshadeva, king of Kashmir.
Harsuddi, temple of.
Haru, or Aru.
Hashishin, see Assassins.
Hasik.
Hassan Kala, hot springs at.
Hassan, son of Sabah, founder of the Ismailites.
Hastings, Warren, letter of.
Hatan, rebellion of.
Haunted deserts.
Havret, Father H.
Hawariy (Avarian), the term.
Hawks, hawking in Georgia,
Yezd and Kerman;
Badakhshan;
Etzina;
among the Tartars;
on shores and islands of Northern Ocean
Kublai's sport at Chagannor;
in mew at Chandu;
trained eagles;
Kublai's establishment of;
in Tibet;
Sumatra;
Maabar.
Hayton I. (Hethum), king of Lesser Armenia,
his autograph.
Hazaras, the, Mongol origin of,
lax custom ascribed to.
Hazbana, king of Abyssinia.
Heat, great at Hormuz,
in India.
Heaven, City of (Kinsay).
Hedin, Dr. Sven.
Heibak, caves at.
Height, effects on fire of great.
Heikel, Professor Axel, on Buddhist monasteries in the Orkhon.
Hei-shui (Mongol Etsina) River.
Hel, Ela (Cardamom).
Helena, Empress.
Helli, see Eli.
He-lung Kiang.
Hemp of Kwei-chau.
Henry II., Duke of Silesia.
Henry III.
Heraclius, Emperor,
said to have loosed the shut-up nations.
Herat.
Hereditary trades.
Hereford, Map.
Hermenia, see Armenia.
Hermits of Kashmir.
Herodotus.
Hethum, see Hayton.
Hiai- or Kiai-chau (Caichu?).
Hides (See Leather.).
Hili, Hili-Marawi, see Ely.
Hill-people of Fo-kien, wild.
Hinaur, see Hunawar.
Hind.
Hindu character, remarks on frequent eulogy of.
- - Kush.
Hindus, their steel and iron.
- - in Java.
Hing-hwa, language of.
Hippopotamus' teeth.
Hips, admiration of large.
Hirth, Dr. F.
Hiuan-Tsung, Emperor.
Hiuen Tsang, Dr., a Buddhist monk.
Hochau, in Sze-chwan, Mangku Khan's death at.
- - in Kansuh.
Hochung-fu (Cachanfu).
Hodgson, Mr.
Hoernle, Dr.
Hojos.
Hokien-fu (Cacanfu).
Hokow, or Hokeu.
Holcombe, Rev. C.,
on Hwai-lu;
on Yellow River;
on Pia-chau fu;
on road from T'ung-kwan to Si-ngan fu.
Hollingworth, H.G.
Holy Sepulchre,
oil from lamp of.
Homeritae.
Homi-cheu, or Ngo-ning.
Homme, its technical use.
Hondius map.
Ho-nhi, or Ngo-ning (Anin) tribe (See Homi-cheu.).
Hooker, Sir Joseph, on bamboo explosion.
Horiad (Oirad, or Uirad) tribe.
Hormuz (Hormos, Curmosa),
trade with India;
a sickly place;
the people's diet;
ships;
great heat and fatal wind;
crops, mourning customs;
the king of;
another road to Kerman from;
route from Kerman to;
site of the old city;
foundation of;
history of;
merchants;
horses exported to India from;
the Melik of.
- - Island, or Jerun,
Organa of Arian.
Hormuzdia.
Horns of Ovis Poli.
Horoscopes, in China,
in Maabar.
Horse-posts and Post-houses.
Horses, Turkish,
Persian;
of Badakhshan, strain of Bucephalus;
sacrificed at Kaans' tombs;
Tartar;
and white mares;
presented to Kaan on New Year's Day;
of Carajan;
their tails docked;
of Anin;
tracking by;
decorated with Yaks' tails;
now bred in S. India.
- - great trade and prices in importing to India from Persia,
modes of shipment;
from Carajan;
from Anin;
from Kis, Hormuz, Dofar, Soer, and Aden;
Esher;
Dofar;
Calatu.
- - duty on,
captured by pirates;
their extraordinary treatment and diet in India.
Horse-stealing, Tartar laws.
Hosie, A.,
on Ch'eng-tu;
brine-wells of Pai-yen-ching;
on the Si-fan;
on Caindu Lake.
Hospitals, Buddhist.
Hostelries, at Cambaluc,
on the Cathay post-roads;
at Kinsay.
Hot springs in Armenia,
near Hormuz.
Hounds, Masters of Kaan's.
Hours, struck from Cambaluc bell-tower,
at Kinsay;
unlucky;
canonical.
Hsi Hsia dynasty.
Hsiang-chen, Hsiang, wood.
Hu-chau fu (Vuju).
Hui-hui, white and black capped, two Mohammedan sects.
Hukaji (Hogachi, Cogachin), Kublai's son.
Hukwan-hien.
Hulaku Khan (Alau, Alacan), Kublai's brother, and founder of Mongol
dynasty in Persia,
war with Barka Khan;
takes Baghdad and puts Khalif to death;
the Ismailites and the Old Man.
- - his treachery,
his descendants;
battle with Barca;
his followers.
Hullukluk, village, near Sivas.
Human fat, used for combustion in war.
- - sacrifices.
Humayun, Emperor.
Humboldt.
Hunawar (Onore, Hinaur).
Hundred Eyes, prophecy of the.
Hundwaniy (ondanique), Indian steel.
Hungary, Hungarians.
Hung Hao, Chinese author.
Hun-ho (Sanghin River).
Hunting equipment and Expedition, Kublai's,
Kang-hi's.
- - preserves. (See also Sport.).
Hutton, Captain.
Hwa-chau.
Hwai-lu, or Hwo-lu-h'ien (Khavailu), the Birmingham of N. Shansi.
Hwai-ngan-fu (Coiganju).
Hwai River.
Hwang-ho (Yellow River),
changes in its courses;
its embankments.
Hwan-ho.
Hyena.
Hyrcania, king of.
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