Gaisue, officer of Kublai's Mathematical Board.
Galeasse, Venetian gallery.
Galingale.
Galletti, Marco.
Galleys of the Middle Ages, war,
arrangement
Of rowers;
number of oars;
dimensions;
tactics in fight;
toil in rowing;
strength and cost of crew;
staff of fleet;
Joinville's description of;
customs of.
Galley-slaves not usual in Middle Ages.
Gambling, prohibited by Kublai.
Game, see Sport.
Game Laws, Mongol.
Game, supplied to Court of Cambaluc.
Ganapati Kings.
Gandar, Father.
Gandhara,
Buddhist name for Yun-nan.
Ganfu, port of Kinsay.
Ganja, gate of.
Gan-p'u.
Gantanpouhoa, Kublai's son.
Gantur.
Gardenia, fruit and dyes.
Gardiner's (misprinted Gardner's) Travels.
Gardner, C.
Garmsir, Ghermseer (Cremesor), Hot Region.
Garnier, Lieut. Francis (journey to Talifu).
Garrisons, Mongol, in Cathay and Manzi,
disliked by the people.
Garuda.
Gate of Iron, ascribed to Derbend.
Gates, of Kaan's palace,
of Cambaluc;
of Somnath.
Gat-pauls, Gatopaul, Gatos-paulas.
Gatto maimone.
Gauenispola Island.
Gaur (Bos Gaurus, etc.).
Gauristan.
Gavraz villages.
Gazaria.
Gedrosi.
Gelath in Imeretia, Iron Gate at.
Geliz, Spanish for silk dealer.
Genealogy of Polos,
errors as given by Barbaro, etc., in;
tabular;
of House of Chinghiz.
Genoa, Polo's captivity at.
- - and Pisa, rivalry, and wars of.
- - and Venice, rivalry and wars of.
Genoese, their growth in skill and splendour,
character as seamen by poet of their own;
character by old Italian author;
capture of Soldaia;
their navigation of the Caspian;
trade in box-wood;
their merchants at Tabriz;
in Fo-kien.
Gentile Plural names converted into local singulars.
Geographical Text of Polo's Book constantly quoted,
its language;
proofs that it is the original;
tautology;
source of other texts.
George (Jirjis, Yurji, Gurgan), king of Tenduc,
of the time of Prester John;
a possible descendant of.
Georgia (Georgiana), beauty of,
and its inhabitants;
their kings.
Gerfalcons (Shonkar);
tablets engraved with.
Gerini, Colonel.
German Follower of the Polos.
Ghaissuddin Balban (Asedin Soldan), Sultan of Delhi.
Gharan country, ruby mines in.
Ghazan (Casan) Khan of Persia, son of Arghun,
his regard for the Polos;
marries the Lady Kukachin;
his mosque at Tabriz;
set to watch the Khorasan frontier;
obtains the throne;
his object and accomplishments.
Ghel, or Ghelan (Ghel-u-chelan), Sea of, Caspian Sea.
Ghelle (Gili), silk of the Gil province.
Ghes, or Kenn (formerly Kish or Kais).
Ghez tree.
Ghiuju.
Ghiyas ed-din, last Prince of Kurd dynasty.
Ghori, or Aksarai River.
Ghuls, goblins.
Ghur.
Giglioli, Professor H.
Gil, or Gilan, province.
Gilgit.
Gill, Captain (River of Golden Sand).
Ginao, Mt. and Hot Springs.
Gindanes of Herodotus.
Ginger,
Shan-si;
Caindu;
alleged to grow in Kiangnan;
Fuju;
Coilum;
different qualities and prices of;
Ely;
Malabar;
Guzerat.
Giraffes,
mediaeval notices of.
Girardo, Paul.
Girdkuh, an Ismailite fortress, its long defence.
Girls, consecrated to idols in India.
Gittarchan, see Astrakhan.
Glaza (Ayas, q.v.).
Gleemen and jugglers, conquer Mien.
Goa.
Gobernador, Straits of.
Goes, Benedict.
Gog and Magog (Ung and Mungul),
legend of;
rampart of;
country of;
name suggested by Wall of China.
Gogo.
Goitre at Yarkand.
Golconda diamond mines.
Gold, Frankincense, and Myrrh, their mystic meaning.
Gold dust in Tibet,
exchanged for salt in Caindu;
Brius River;
in Kin-shia-Kiang;
and nuggets in Carajan;
abundant in Yun-nan;
Caugigu;
Coloman;
infinite in Chipangu;
in Sea of Chin Islands;
dust in Gulf of Cheinan Islands;
not found in Java;
in Locac;
the Malayo-Siamese territories;
Sumatra;
vast accumulations in South India;
imported into Malabar;
and into Cambay;
purchased in Socotra.
Gold and silver towers of Mien.
- - cloths of.
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