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,