Robber Raids;
Lumri Or Numri.
Binh Thuan (Champa).
Binkin.
Bintang (Pentam).
Birch-Bark Vessels,
Books.
Bir-Dhul, Or Bujardawal, Cap.
Of Ma'bar.
Bird-hunts.
Birdwood, Sir G.
Birhors of Chuta Nagpur.
Bir-Pandi, or Pira-Bandi.
Birthday, celebration of
Kublai's.
Bishbalik (Urumtsi).
Bishop, of Male Island,
story of an Abyssinian.
Bitter bread.
- - water.
Blac, Blachia (Lac, Wallach).
Black-bone, Chinese name for Lolos.
Black Crane (Kara Togorue).
- - Saints, White Devils in India.
- - Sea, M. Maurum v. Nigrum.
- - Sect of Tibet.
Blacker, the more beautiful.
Blaeuw, map.
Blochmann, Professor H.
Block-books, supposed to have been introduced from China,.
Block-printing in Persia..
Blood-sucking, Tartar.
Blous, bloies.
Boar's tusks, huge (Hipp.).
Boccassini.
Bode, Baron de.
Bodhisatva Avalok.
Bodleian MS. 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.
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