Henry.
Manchu Dynasty.
Mancopa.
Mandale In Burma.
Mandarin Language.
Mangalai, Third Son Of Kublai,
His Palace.
Mangalore.
Mangla And Nebila
Islands.
Mangonels made by Polos for attack of Saianfu,
etymology;
account of;
a barbarous lubricant for.
Mangu (Mangku, Mongu) Khan,
Kublai's elder brother;
his death;
reign;
massacre at his funeral.
Mangu-Temur (Mungultemur).
Manjanik (Manjaniki).
- - Kumgha.
Manjanikis (Mangonellas). (See Mangonels.).
Manji, see Manzi.
Manjushri, Bodhisatva.
Manphul, Pandit.
Mansur Shah.
Mantze, Man-tzu, Mantszi, Aborigines.
Manuel, Comnenus, Emperor.
Manufactures, Kublai's.
Manuscripts of Polo's Book.
Manzi (Facfur), king of,
his flight;
his charity;
his effeminacy;
his death;
his palace at Kinsay.
(See Faghfur.)
- - (Mangi) province,
White City of the Frontier;
entrance to;
conquest of;
character of the people;
its nine kingdoms, 1200 cities and squares;
its bamboos;
no sheep in;
dialects;
called Chin;
ships and merchants in India,
- - queen of,
surrenders;
her report of Kinsay.
Map, constructed on Polo's data,
Hereford;
Roger Bacon's;
Marino Sanudo's;
Medicean;
Catalan;
Fra Mauro's;
Ruysch's;
Mercator's;
Sanson's.
Mapillas, or Moplahs.
Maps, allusions to, in Polo's book,
early mediaeval;
of the Arabs;
in the palace at Venice.
Marabia, Maravia, Maravi.
Marah Silu.
Maramangalam, site of Kolkhoi.
Marash.
Maratha.
Mardin (Merdin).
Mare's milk, see Kumiz.
Margaritone.
Marignolli, John.
Market days.
Markets in Kinsay.
- - Squares in Kinsay.
Marks of Silver.
Marriage customs in Khotan.
- - customs in Kanchau.
- - customs of the Tartars.
- - (posthumous) amongst Tartars.
- - laxities of different peoples.
- - laxities in Thibet.
Mar Sarghis.
Marsden's edition of Polo.
Martin, Dr. Ernest, of French Legation at Pekin.
Martini,
his Atlas Sinensis;
his account of Kinsay.
Martyrs, Franciscan.
Masalak-al-Absar.
Mashhad (Meshed), or Varsach River.
Mashiz.
Maskat.
Mastiff Dogs, Keepers of the.
Mastiffs of Tibet, see Dogs.
Mastodon, bogged.
Mas'ud II., Ghiath ed-din-Seljuk dynasty.
Mas'udi.
Masulipatam.
Matchlocks, manufacture at Kerman,
at Taianfu.
Ma-t'eu (Matu).
Mati Dhivaja, see Bashpah Lama.
Matitanana.
Matityna (Martinique).
Maetzner, Eduard.
Maundevile, Sir John (John a Beard),
on lying in water;
Cloths of Tartary;
Trees of the Sun;
Dry Tree;
his Book of Travels;
English version;
his tomb.
Maung Maorong, or Pong, Shan kingdom.
Mauro, Fra, his map.
Mausul (Mosul), kingdom of.
Mauvenu (Malvennez), the phrase.
Mayers, W.F.
Mayhew, A.L., on Couvade.
Mazanderan, province.
Mecchino, Ginger.
Medressehs at Sivas.
Mekhitar.
Mekong River (Lan-tsang kiang).
Mekran, often reckoned part of India.
Mekranis.
Melchior, one of the Magi.
Melibar, see Malabar.
Melic, the title.
Melons, dried, of Shibrgan.
Menangkabau.
Mendoza.
Menezes, Duarte.
Mengki, envoy to Java.
Menjar (Majar?).
Menuvair and Grosvair.
Merghuz Boiruk Khan.
Merkit (Mecrit, Mescript), a Tartar tribe.
Meshid (more correctly Mashhad).
Messengers, Royal Mongol.
Mexico.
Meyer, Paul, Alexandre le Grand.
Miafarakain.
Miau-tzu.
Mien, Amien, Ava (Burma), king of,
his battle with Tartars;
City of;
its gold and silver towers;
how it was conquered;
communications and war with Mongols;
Chinese notices.
Mikado.
Military engines of the Middle Ages,
dissertation on;
two classes;
Trebuchets;
Balista;
shot used, carrion, live men, bags of gold;
Mangonel;
Napoleon's experiments with heavy shot;
size and accuracy;
length of range (Sanudo on);
effect of Mangonel on Saracens;
procured by Kublai for siege of Siang-yang;
Chinese and Persian histories on;
known to Mongols and Chinese;
the Karabugha, or Calabra;
the P'ao.
Milk, portable, or curd.
Milk, rite of sprinkling Mare's.
Million, use of the numeral.
Millione, Millioni, nickname for Polo and his book.
Millioni, Corte del.
Milne.
Minao district.
Mines and Minerals, see Iron, Silver, etc.
Minever, see Menuvair.
Ming, the Chinese dynasty which ousted the Mongols, A.D. 1368,
their changes in Peking;
their paper-money;
their effeminate customs;
expeditions to India;
annals.
Mingan, Khan's Master of Hounds.
Ming-ti, Emperor.
Minjan, dialect of.
Minotto, Professor A.S.
Min River (in Fokien).
- - River (in Szech'wan).
Mint, the Khan's.
Mintsing-hien.
Mious River.
Miracle Stories,
fish in Lent;
Mountain moved;
St. Barsamo's girdles;
Holy Fire;
Stone at Samarkand;
at St. Thomas' Shrine.
Mirat.
Mire French for leech.
Mirkhond.
Mirobolans.
Miskal, a weight. (See also Saggio.).
Misri, sugar-candy.
Missionary Friars, powers conferred on,
in China in 14th century.
- - Martyrs.
Moa of New Zealand.
Modhafferians, the.
Modun Khotan ("Wood-ville").
Moghistan.
Mohammed, son of Yusuf Kelefi, founder of Shiraz.
Mohammerah.
Mohiuddin.
Mokli, the Jelair.
Molayu.
Molebar, see Malabar.
Molephatan.
Moliere, Pastorale Comique.
Moluccas.
Mombasa.
Momein.
Monasteries of Idolaters (Buddhists).
Money, paper.
- - values.
Mongol conquests,
capture Soldaia;
Bolghar;
treachery and cruelty;
their inroads;
Bakh city;
invade Balakhshan;
invasion of Poland and Silesia.
Mongon Khan, see Mangu.
Mongotay (Mangkutai), a Mongol officer.
Monkeys,
passed off as pygmies.
Monks, idolatrous. (See Monasteries.).
Monnier, Marcel, his visit to Karakorum,
on the Ch'eng-tu Suspension Bridge.
Monoceros and Maiden, legend of.
Monophysitism.
Monsoons.
Montecorvino, John, Archbishop of Cambaluc.
Monte d'Ely.
Montgomerie, Major T.G. (R.E.) (Indian Survey),
on fire at great altitudes;
position of Kashgar and Yarkund.
Monument at Si-ngan fu, Christian.
Moon, Mountains of the.
Moore, Light of the Harem.
Moplas, see Mapillas.
Morgan, E. Delmar.
Mortagne, siege of.
Morus alba, silk-worm tree.
Moscow, Tartar Massacre at.
Mosolin, or Muslin (Mosolini), Mo-sze, Arab Maucili.
Mossos, a tribe.
Mosta'sim Billah, last Abbaside Khalif of Baghdad,
story of his avarice and death.
Mostocotto.
Mosul (Mausul).
Motapalle, see Mutfili.
Motawakkil, Khalif.
Moule, Bishop G.E.
Mount, Green, in Palace grounds at Peking.
- - St Thomas.
- - D'Ely, see Monte d'Ely.
Mountain, Old Man of the, see Old Man of the.
- - Miracle of the.
- - Road in Shensi, extraordinary.
Mourning customs,
at Hormuz;
in Tangut;
at Kinsay.
Mozambique Channel.
Muang, term applied in Shan countries (Laos and W. Yunnan) to fortified.
towns, as: -
Muang-Chi;
Muang, or Maung Maorong;
Muang Shung;
Muang Yong.
Mulahidah (Mulehet, Alamut, Chinese Mulahi), epithet of Ismaelites.
Mulberry Trees.
Mul-Java.
Mueller, F.W.K.
Mueller, Professor Max,
on Couvade;
on stories of Buddha and St. Josafat.
Multan.
Munal pheasant (Lopophorus impeyanus), described by Aelian.
Mung (Nicaea).
Mungasht, hill fort, stronghold of the Atabegs.
Mungul, name applied to Tartars. (See Mongol.).
Mungul-Temur and Mongo-Temur, see Mangu-Temur.
Murad Beg, of Kunduz.
Murghab River.
Murray, Dr. J.A.H., on Couvade.
- - Hugh.
Murus Ussu (Brius, Upper Kiang).
Mus, Merdin (Mush, Mardin).
Musa'ud, Prince of Hormuz.
Musk, animal (Moschus).
- - earliest mention of and use in medicine.
Muslin, see Mosolin.
Mutfili (Motapalle for Telingana),
its diamonds;
identified.
Muza.
Mynibar.
Mysore.
Mystic number, see Numbers.
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