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.
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