pposed to be Nicolo Polo's second wife.
---- wife of Felice Polo.
Firando Island.
Firdus, Ismailite Castle.
Firdusi.
Fire, affected by height of Pamir Plain,
regulations at Kinsay.
Fire-baptism, ascribed to Abyssinians.
Fire-_Pao_ (cannon?).
Fire-worship, or rockets, in Persia,
by the Sensin in Cathay.
Firishta, the historian.
Fish miracle in Georgia,
in the Caspian;
and date diet;
supply at Kinsay;
food for cattle;
stored for man and beast.
Fish-oil, used for rubbing ships.
Florin, or ducat.
Flour (Sago), trees producing.
Flueckiger, Dr.
Fog, dry.
Fo-kien, _see_ Fu-chau.
Folin (Byzantine Empire).
Fondaco.
Foot-mark on Adam's Peak, _q.v._.
Foot-posts in Cathay.
Forg.
Formosa, Plain (Harmuza).
Forsyth, Sir T. Douglas.
Fortune, R.
Foundlings, provision for.
Four-horned sheep.
Fowls with hair.
Foxes, black.
Fozlan, Ibn.
_Fra terre_ (Interior).
Fracastoro, Jerome.
Franciscan converts,
in Volga region
at Yang-chau;
Zayton.
Francolin (darraj of the Persians), black partridge.
Frankincense, _see_ Incense.
Frederic II., Emperor,
his account of the Tartars;
story of implicit obedience;
his _cheetas_;
his leather money;
his giraffe.
French,
the original language of Polo's Book;
its large diffusion in that age.
French Expedition up the Kamboja River.
Frenchmen, riding long like.
French mission and missionaries in China.
_Frere charnel_.
Frere, Sir B.
Froissart.
Fu-chau (Fo-kien, Fuju),
paper-money at;
wild hill people of;
its identity;
language of;
tooth relique at.
Fuen (Fen) ho River.
Funeral rites, Chinese,
in Tangut;
of the Kaans;
at Kinsay.
(_See_ also Dead.).
Fungul, city of.
Furs, of the Northern Regions.
Fusang, Mexico (?).
Fuyang.
Fuzo, _see_ Fu-chau.

Gabala, Bishop of.
Gagry, maritime defile of.

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 so