markand.
---- the green.
---- towers in Chinese cities.
---- umbrella column.
Stones giving invulnerability.
Suakin.
Submersion of part of Ceylon.
Subterraneous irrigation.
Suburbs of Cambaluc.
Subutai, Mongol general.
Su-chau (Suju),
plan of.
Suchnan River.
Sudarium, the Holy.
Suddhodhana.
Sugar, Bengal,
manufactured;
art of refining;
of Egypt and China.
Suh-chau (Sukchur).
Suicides before an idol.
Sukchur, province Sukkothai.
Sukkothai.
_Suklat_, broadcloth.
Sukum Kala'.
Suleiman, Sultan.
Sulphur and quicksilver, potion of longevity.
Sultaniah, Monument at (_See_ Soltania.).
Sultan Shah, of Badakhshan.
Sumatra (Java the Less),
described, its kingdoms;
circuit.
Sumatra, Samudra,
city and kingdom of (Samara for Samatva);
legend of origin;
Ibn Batuta there;
its position;
latest mention of;
wine-pots.
Sumbawa.
Summers, Professor.
Sumutala, Sumuntala, _see_ Sumatra.
Sun and moon, trees of the.
Sundara Pandi Devar, Sondar Bandi Davar, king in Ma'bar,
his death;
Dr. Caldwell's views about.
Sundar Fulat (Pulo Condore Group).
Sung, a native dynasty 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 Der
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