Shan State).
Poods, Russian.
Popinjays.
Population, Vast, Of Cathay.
Porcelain Manufacture,
Fragments Found At Kayal;
Chinese.
- - Shells, See Cowries.
Porcupines.
Pork, mention of, omitted.
Postin, sheep-skin coat.
Posts, post-houses and runners,
in Siberia.
Po-sz' (Persia).
Potala at
L'hasa.
Pottinger.
Poultry, kind of, in Coilum,
in Abyssinia (guinea-fowl?).
Pound, sterling.
Pourpre, or Purpura.
P'o-yang Lake.
Pozdneiev, Professor.
Precious stones or gems,
how discovered by pirates.
Prester John (Unc Can, Aung or Ung Khan),
Tartar tribute to;
account of;
marriage relations with Chinghiz;
insults Chinghiz' envoys;
"these be no soldiers";
marches to meet Chinghiz;
real site of battle with Chinghiz;
his real fate;
slain in battle;
his lineage in Tenduc;
and the Golden King.
Prices of horses, see Horses.
Printing, imaginary connection of Polo's name with introduction of.
Private names supposed.
Prjevalsky, Colonel N.M.
Probation of Jogis,
parallel.
Prophecy regarding Bayan.
Proques, the word.
Prostitutes; at Cambaluc,
Kinsay.
Provinces, thirty-four of Kublai's Empire.
Pseudo-Callisthenes.
Ptolemies' trained African elephants.
Ptolemy,
Sarmatic Gates.
P'u-chau fu.
Pu-ch'eng.
Puer and Esmok.
Pukan Mien-Wang.
Pulad Chingsang.
Pulisanghin, River and Bridge.
Pulo Bras.
Pulo Condore (Sondur and Condur).
Pulo Gommes (Gauenispola).
Pulo Nankai, or Nasi.
Pulo We, Wai, or Wey.
Punnei-Kayal.
Puranas, the.
Purpura, see Pourpre.
Putchok.
Putu-ho, "Grape R.".
Pygmies, factitious (?).
Qal'ah Asgher, hot springs at.
Qara Ars-lan Beg, king of Kerman.
Quails in India.
Queen of Mutfili.
Quicksilver and sulphur potion.
- - as regarded by alchemists.
Quills of the Ruc, see Ruc.
Quilon, Kaulam, etc., see Coilum.
Qumadin (Camadi)
Rabelais.
Rabbanta, a Nestorian monk.
Radloff, Dr. W.,
map.
Rain.
Rainald, of Dassel, Archbishop.
Rain-makers, see Conjurers.
Rainy season.
Rajkot leather-work.
Rakka, Rakshasas.
Rama Kamheng, king.
Rameshwaram.
Ramnad.
Rampart of Gog and Magog.
Ramusio, Giov. Battista, passim,
his biographical notices of Polo;
his edition of Polo.
Rana Paramita's Woman Country.
Ranking, John.
Raonano-Rao.
Rapson, E.J.
Ras Haili.
- - Kumhari.
Rashiduddin, alias Fazl-ulla Rashid, Persian statesman and
historian of the Mongols,
frequently quoted in the Notes.
Ravenala tree (Urania speciosa).
Raw meat eaten.
Rawlinson, Sir H.
Reclus, Asie russe,
on Caspian Sea fisheries.
Red gold and red Tangas.
Re Dor.
Red Sea, trade from India to Egypt by,
described in some texts as a river;
possible origin of mistake.
Red sect of Lamas.
Refraction, abnormal.
Reg Ruwan, of Kabul.
- - of Seistan.
Reindeer ridden.
Religion, indifference of Chinghizide Princes to,
occasional power of among Chinese.
Remission of taxation by Kublai
Rennell, Major James.
Reobarles (Rudbar, etc.).
Revenue of Kinsay.
Rhinoceros (Unicorn), in Sumatra,
habits;
four Asiatic species.
- - Tichorinus.
Rhins, Dutreuil de.
Rhubarb, Rheum palmatum.
Riant, Comte.
Ricci, Matteo.
Rice.
Rice-wine,
at Yachi.
- - trade on Grand Canal.
Richard II.
Richthofen, Baron F. von,
on Fungul;
on Tanpiju.
Right and Left, ministers of the.
Rio Marabia.
Rishis (Eremites) of Kashmir.
"River of China".
Roads radiating from Cambaluc.
Robbers in Persia.
Robbers' River.
Robes distributed by Kublai.
Roborovsky, Lieutenant.
Rochefort, "faire la couvade".
Rockets.
Rockhill (Rubruck and Diary of a Journey),
on the titles Khan, Khatun, etc.;
on horn horse-shoes;
earliest mention of name Mongol in Oriental works;
Mongol storm-dispellers;
charge of cannibalism against Tibetans;
on Bonbo Lamas;
Tablets (hu);
mechanical contrivances at E. Court;
Mongol etiquette;
Chinese leather-money;
Mongol post-stations;
pocket-spittoons;
from Peking to Si-ngan fu;
descent of Yellow River;
road between T'ung-kwan and Si-ngan fu;
two famous Uigur Nestorians;
on the word Salar;
on the Hui-hui sects;
on the Alan;
on branch of Volga Bulgars.
Rofia palm (sagus ruffia).
Roiaus dereusse (?).
Rome, the Sudarium at.
Rondes, ingenious but futile explanation of.
Rook, in Chess.
Rori-Bakkar, Sepoy name for Upper Sind.
Rosaries, Hindu.
Rostof and Susdal, Andrew, Grand Duke of.
Roth, H. Ling, on couvade.
Rouble.
Roxana, daughter of Darius, wife of Alexander.
Roze de l'Acur.
Rubies, Balas,
of Ceylon;
of Adam's Peak.
Rubruquis, or Rubruc, Friar William de.
Ruby mines in Badakhshan.
Ruc (Rukh), or Gryphon, bird called, described,
its feathers and quills;
wide diffusion and various forms of fable;
eggs of the Aepyornis;
Fra Mauro's story;
genus of that bird, condor;
discovery of bones of Harpagornis in New Zealand;
Sindbad, Rabbi Benjamin, romance of Duke Ernest;
Ibn Batuta's sight of Ruc;
rook in chess;
various notices of.
Rudbar-i-Lass, Robbers' River.
- - (Reobarles), district and River.
Rudder, single, noted by Polo as peculiar,
double, used in Mediterranean.
Rudkhanah-i-Duzdi (Robbers' River).
Rudkhanah-i-Shor (Salt River).
Rudra Deva, King of Telingana.
Rudrama Devi, Queen of Telingana.
Rukh, Shah.
Rukhnuddin, Mahmud, Prince of Hormuz.
- - Masa'ud.
- - Khurshah, son of Alaodin, Prince of the Ismaelites.
Rum.
Runiz.
Ruomedam-Ahomet, King of Hormuz.
Rupen, Bagratid, founder of Armenian State in Cilicia.
Rupert, Prince.
Rueppell's Table of Abyssinian kings.
Russia (Rosia), annexes Georgia,
great cold, Arab accounts of;
silver mines;
subject to Tartars;
conquered by Batu.
- - leather,
clothes of.
Russians, trusty lieges of king.
Rustak.
Rusticiano of Pisa,
introduces himself in prologue;
writes down Polo's book;
extracts and character of his compilation;
his real name;
his other writings.
Ruysch's map.
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