Ma Twan-Lin, The Chinese Pliny.
Maaden, Turquoise Mines At.
Maatum, Or Nubia.
Ma'bar (Maabar, I.E. Coromandel Coast),
Province
Of India;
its brother kings;
pearl fishery;
etymology;
limits;
obscurity of history;
port visited by Polo;
nakedness of people, king,
His jewels;
his wives, "Trusty Lieges," treasure;
horses imported;
superstitious customs;
ox-worship;
Govis, Ib.;
no horses bred;
other customs;
mode of arrest for debt;
great heat;
regard for omens;
astrology, treatment of boys;
birds, girls consecrated to idols;
customs in sleeping;
ships at Madagascar.
Macartney's Map.
Macgregor, Sir C, "Journey through Khorasan".
Machin, city of (Canton).
Machin, Mahachin (Great China),
used by Persian writers as synonymous with Manzi.
Maclagan, Major-General (R.E.).
Madagascar (Madeigascar),
confused with Magadoxo;
etymology;
traces of ancient Arab colonisation.
Madai, Madavi, Maudoy.
Madjgars.
Madar-Des, Eastern Panjab.
Madras.
Madura.
Maestro, or Great Bear, said to be invisible in Sumatra.
Magadha.
Magadoxo, confused with Madagascar.
Magapatana, near Ceylon.
Magi, the three,
legend as told by Mas'udi;
source of fancies about;
names assigned to.
Magic, of Udyana,
Lamaitic, (See also Sorcerers.).
Magical darkness (dry fog and dust storms).
Magnet, Mount.
Magyars.
Mahar Amlak, king of Abyssinia.
Mahavan.
Mahmud Kalhati, prince of Hormuz.
Mahmud of Ghazni.
Mahmudiah Canal.
Mahomed (Mahommet),
his account of Gog and Magog;
his Paradise;
his alleged prophecy of the Mongols;
his use of mangonels.
Mahomed, supposed worship of idols of.
- - II., uses the old engines of war.
- - Tarahi.
- - Tughlak of Delhi, his copper token currency.
- - Shah of Malacca.
Mahomedan revolts in China.
- - conversion of Malacca.
- - conversion of states in Sumatra.
- - butchers in Kashmir.
- - butchers in Maabar.
- - king of Kayal.
- - merchants at Kayal.
- - settlements on Abyssinian coast.
Mahomedans (Saracens),
in Turcomania;
in and near Mausul;
their universal hatred of Christians;
in Tauris;
in Persia;
their hypocrisy about wine;
at Yezd;
Hormuz;
Cobinan;
Tonocain;
Sapurgan;
Taican;
Badakhshan,
Wakhan, etc.;
Kashgar;
strife with Christians in Samarkand;
Yarkand;
Khotan;
Pein;
Charchan;
Lop;
Tangut;
Chingintalas;
Kanchau;
Sinju;
Egrigaia;
Tenduc, their half-breed progeny;
in northern frontier of China, alleged origin of:
their gibes at Christians;
Kublai's dislike of;
in Yun-nan;
in Champa;
in Sumatra;
troops in Ceylon;
pilgrims to Adam's Peak;
honour St. Thomas;
in Kesmacoran;
in Madagascar;
in Abyssinia;
in Aden;
outrage by;
at Esher;
Dufar;
Calatu;
Hormuz;
Ahmad Sultan one.
Mailapur (Shrine of St. Thomas).
Maiman.
Maistre, the word.
Maitreya Buddha.
Majapahit, empire of (Java).
Majar (Menjar).
Major, R.H., on Australia.
Makdashan, see Magadoxo.
Malabar, Melibar, Malibar, Manibar,
fleets;
products;
imports, Chinese ships in.
Malacca,
foundation of;
chronology.
Malacca, Straits of.
Malaiur, island and city.
Mal-Amir, or Aidhej.
Malasgird.
Malay Peninsula,
invasion of Ceylon;
chronicle;
language;
origin of many geographical names.
Malayo, or Tana Malayu.
Malcolm, Sir John.
Maldive Islands.
Male in Burma.
Male and Female Islands,
legend widely diffused.
Malifattan.
Malik al Dhahir, king of Samudra.
- - al Mansur.
- - al Salih, king of Samudra.
- - Kafur.
Malli, the.
Malpiero, Gasparo.
Malte-Brun.
Malwa.
Mamaseni.
Mamre, tree of.
Man, barbarians.
Man, Col. 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
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