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 to Mongols and Chinese;
the _Karabugha_, or _Calabra_;
the _P'ao_.
Milk, portable, or curd.
Milk, rite of sprinkling Mare's.
Million, use of the numeral.
Millione, Millioni, nickname for Polo and his book.
Millioni, Corte del.
Milne.
Minao district.
Mines and Minerals, _see_ Iron, Silver, etc.
Minever, _see_ Menuvair.
Ming, the Chinese dynasty which ousted the Mongols, A.D. 1368,
their changes in Peking;
their paper-money;
their effeminate customs;
expeditions to India;
annals.
Mingan, Khan's Master of Hounds.
Ming-ti, Emperor.
Minjan, dialect of.
Minotto, Professor A.S.
Min River (in Fokien).
---- River (in Szech'wan).
Mint, the Khan's.
Mintsing-hien.
Mious River.
Miracle Stories,
fish in Lent;
Mountain moved;
St. Barsamo's girdles;
Holy Fire;
Stone at Samarkand;
at St. Thomas' Shrine.
Mirat.
_Mire_ French for leech.
Mirkhond.
Mirobolans.
_Miskal_, a weight. (_See_ also Saggio.).
_Misri_, sugar-candy.
Missionary Friars, powers conferred on,
in China in 14th century.
---- Martyrs.
Moa of New Zealand.
Modhafferians, the.
Modun Khotan ("Wood-ville").
Moghistan.
Mohammed, son of Yusuf Kelefi, founder of Shiraz.
Mohammerah.
Mohi
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