Reigning In S. China Till Kublai's Conquest,
Their Paper-Money, Effeminacy;
Cremation;
Kublai's War Against;
End Of Them.
Sunnis And
Shias.
Suolstan (Shulistan), a kingdom in Persia.
Superstitions in Tangut, the devoted sheep or ram (Tengri Tockho),
the dead man's
Door;
as to chance shots;
in Carajan;
devil-dancing;
property of the dead;
Sumatran;
Malabar;
as to omens.
Sur-Raja.
Survival, instances of.
Sushun, Regent of China, execution of.
Su-tash, the Jadek.
Suttees in S. India,
of men.
Svastika, sacred symbol of the Bonpos.
Swans, wild, at Chagan-Nor.
Swat.
- - River.
Swi-fu.
Sword blades of India.
Syghinan, see Shighnan.
Sykes, Major P. Molesworth.
Sylen (Ceylon).
Symbolical messages, Scythian and Tartar.
Syrian Christians.
Syrrhaptes Pallasii, see Barguerlac.
Szechenyi, Count.
Sze-ch'wan (Ch'eng-tu),
aborigines.
Tabashir.
Tabbas.
Table of the Great Khan.
Tables, how disposed at Mongol feasts.
Tablet, Emperor's, adored with incense.
Tablets of Authority, Golden (Paizah),
presented by Khan to Polos;
lion's head and gerfalcon;
bestowed on distinguished captains, inscription;
cat's head;
granted to governors of different rank.
- - worshipped by Cathayans.
Tabriz (Tauris).
Tachindo, see Ta-ts'ien-lu.
Tacitus, Claustra Caspiorum, Pass of Derbend.
Tactics, Tartar.
Tacuin.
Tadinfu.
Taeping Insurrection and Devastations.
Taeping, or Taiping, Sovereigns' effeminate customs.
Taffetas.
Taft, near Yezd, turquoise at.
Tafurs.
Tagachar.
Tagaung.
Tagharma Pass.
Taghdungbash River.
Taianfu (T'ai-yuan-fu), king of N. China.
Taiani.
Taican, see Talikan.
Taichau (Tigu).
T'aiching-Kwan.
Taidu, Daitu, Tatu, Kublai's new city of Cambaluc.
Taikung, see Tagaung.
Tailed men, in Sumatra,
elsewhere;
English.
Tailors, none in Maabar.
Taimuni tribe.
Taiting-fu (Tadinfu), or Yenchau.
Taitong-fu, see Tathung.
Tai-tsu, Emperor.
T'ai Tsung, Emperor.
Tatyang Khan (Great King), king of the Naimans.
Tajiks of Badakhshan, great topers.
Takfur.
Takhtapul.
Taki-uddin, Abdu-r Rahman.
Takla-Makan.
Talains.
Talas River.
Tali, gold mines.
Talifu (Carajan).
Talikan, Thaikan (Taican).
Tallies, record by.
Tamarind, pirates use of.
Tamerlan.
Tana (Azov).
- - near Bombay, kingdom of
Tana-Maiambu.
Tana-Malayu.
Tanasi cloth.
Tanduc, see Tenduc.
T'ang dynasty.
Tangnu Oola, branch of Altai.
Tangut province, Chinese Si Hia, or Ho Si,
five invasions of.
Tangutan, term applied to Tibetan speaking people round the Koko-nor.
Tanjore,
Suttee at;
Pagoda at;
fertility of.
Tankiz Khan, applied to Chinghiz.
Tanpiju (Shaohing?).
Tantras, Tantrika, Tantrists.
Tao-lin, a Buddhist monk.
Tao-sze (Taosse), sect,
female idols of the.
Ta-pa-Shan range.
Taprobana, mistakes about.
Tarakai.
Tarantula.
Tarcasci.
Tarem, or Tarum.
Tares of the parable.
Tarikh-i-Rashidi.
Tarmabala, Kublai's grandson.
Tarok, Burmese name for Chinese.
Tarok Man and Tarok Myo.
Tartar language,
on Tartar, its correct form;
misuse by Ramusio.
Tartars,
different characters used by;
identified with Gog and Magog;
ladies;
their first city;
original country, tributary to Prester John;
revolt and migration;
earliest mention of the word;
make Chinghiz their king;
his successors;
their customs and religion;
houses;
waggons;
chastity of their women;
polygamy, etc.;
their gods and idols;
their drink (Kumiz);
cloths;
arms, horses, and war customs;
military organization;
sustenance on rapid marches;
blood-sucking;
portable curd;
tactics in war;
degeneracy;
administration of justice;
laws against theft;
posthumous marriage;
the cudgel;
Rubruquis' account of;
Joinville's;
custom before a fight;
want of charity to the poor;
conquerors of China, history of;
excellence in archery;
objection to meddling with things pertaining to the dead;
admiration of the Polo mangonels;
employment of military engines;
their cruelties;
arrows;
marriage customs.
- - in the Far North.
- - of the Levant, see Levant.
- - of the Ponent, see Ponent.
Tartary cloths.
Tarungares, tribe.
Tash Kurgan.
Tatariya coins.
Tathung, or Taitongfu.
Ta-t'sien-lu, or Tachindo, Tartsedo.
Ta Tsing River.
Tattooing,
artists in.
Tatu (Taichu).
- - River.
Tauris, see Tabriz.
Taurizi, Torissi.
Tawalisi.
Taxes, see Customs, Duties.
Tchakiri Mondou (Modun).
Tchekmen, thick coarse cotton stuff.
Tea-houses at Kingsze.
Tea trees in E. Tibet.
Tebet, see Tibet.
Tedaldo, see Theobald.
Teeth, custom of casing in gold.
- - of Adam or of Buddha.
- - conservation of, by Brahmans.
Tegana.
Teghele, Atabeg of Lur.
Teimur (Temur), Kublai's grandson and successor.
Tekla, Hamainot.
Tekrit.
Telingana, see Tilinga.
Telo Samawe.
Tembul (Betel), chewing.
Temkan, Kublai's son.
Temple, connection of Cilician Armenia with Order of.
- - Master of the.
Temple's account of the Condor.
Temujin, see Chinghiz.
Tenduc, or Tanduc, plain of,
province of.
Tengri, Supreme deity of Tartars.
Tennasserim,
(Tanasari).
Tents, the Khan's.
Terebinth,
of Mamre.
Terlan, goshawk.
Terra Mountains.
Terra Australis.
Te-Tsung, Emperor.
Thai, Great and Little,
race.
Thaigin.
Thai-yuanfu (Taianfu).
Thard-wahsh, see Patterns, Beast and Bird.
Theft, Tartar punishment of.
Theistic worship.
Thelasar.
Theobald, or Tedaldo of Piacenza,
chosen Pope as Gregory X.;
sends friars with the Polos and presents.
Theodorus, king of Abyssinia.
Theodosius the Great.
Theophilus, Emperor of Constantinople.
- - missionary.
Thevenot, Travels.
Thian Shan.
Thiante-Kiun.
Thin l'Eveque, siege of.
Thinae of Ptolemy.
Tholoman, see Coloman.
Thomas, Edward.
- - of Mancasola, Bishop of Samarcand.
Thread, Brahmanical.
Three kingdoms (San-Kwe).
Threshold, a great offence to step on the.
Thuran Shah's History of Hormuz.
Tibet (Tebet) province,
boundary of;
its acquisition by Mongols;
organisation under Kublai;
dogs of.
Tibetan language and character,
origin of the Yue-chi.
Tibetans,
superstitions of;
and Kashmiris (Tebet and Keshimur), sorceries of;
accused of cannibalism.
Tides in Hang-chau estuary.
Tierce, half tierce, etc., hours of.
Tiflis.
Tigado, Castle of.
Tigers (called lions by Polo),
trained to the chase;
in Cuncun;
in Caindu;
Kwei-chau.
(See also Lions.).
Tigris River (Volga),
at Baghdad.
Tigudar (Acomat Soldan).
Tiju.
Tiles, enamelled.
Tilinga, Telingana, Tiling, Telenc.
Tiling.
Timur of Toumen, chief of the Nikoudrians.
Timur the Great.
Timurids, the.
Ting, 10 taels of silver = tael of gold.
Tinju.
Tinnevelly.
Tithe on clothing material.
Tithing men, Chinese (Pao-kia).
Titus, Emperor.
Tjajya, see Choiach.
Toba race.
Toctai, king, see Toktai.
Tod, Colonel James.
Toddy, see Wine of Palm.
Togan.
Toghontemur, last Mongol Emperor,
his wail.
Toghrul I.
- - Shah of Kerman.
Togrul Wang Khan, see Prester John.
Toka Tumir.
Tokat.
Toktai Khan (Toctai, Lord of the Ponent),
wars with Noghai;
his symbolic message.
Tolan-nur (Dolonnur).
Toleto, John de, Cardinal Bishop of Portus.
Tolobuga.
Toman (Tuman, etc.), Mongol word for 10,000.
Tongking, Tungking.
Tooth-relique
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