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Eagle-wood, origin of the name. (_See_ Lign-aloes.).

Earth honoured.

East, its state, circa, 1260.

Ebony (bonus).

Edkins, Rev.

Edward I.

Edward II., correspondence with Tartar princes.

Effeminacy, in Chinese palaces.

Eggs of Ruc and Aepyornis.

Egrigaia, province.

Ela (cardamom).

Elchidai.

Elenovka.

Elephantiasis.

Elephants, Kublai carried on a timber bartizan by four, Kublai's; the king of Mien's; numbers of men alleged to be carried by; how the Tartars routed; wild in Caugigu; Champa; Locac; Sumatra; Madagascar and Zanghibar; trade in teeth of; carried off by the Ruc; in Zanghibar; used in war; an error; Nubian; fable about; not bred in Abyssinia; training of African; war of the.

Eli, Ely, Elly (Hili), kingdom of.

Elias, Ney.

Elixir vitae of the Jogis.

Elliot, Sir Walter.

Emad, Ed-din Abu Thaher, founder of the Kurd dynasty.

Embroidery of silk at Kerman, leather in Guzerat.

Empoli, Giovanni d'.

_Empusa_, the Arabian Nesnas.

Enchanters, at Socotra.

Enchantments, of the Caraonas.

(_See_ also Conjurers, Socerers.).

Engano Island, legend.

Engineering feat.

Engineers, their growing importance in Middle Ages.

England, Kublai's message to king of, correspondence of Tartar princes with kings of.

English trade and character in Asia.

Enlightenment, Land of.

_Erba_, poisonous plant or gra.s.s.

Erculin, Arculin (an animal).

Erdeni Tso (Erdenidsu), or Erdeni Chao Monastery.

Eremites (Ris.h.i.+s), of Kashmir.

Erguiul, province.

Erivan.

_Erkeun_, (_Ye li ke un_), Mongol for Christians.

Ermine.

Erzinjan, Erzinga, Eriza (Arzinga).

Erzrum (Arziron).

_Eschiel_, the word.

Esher (Shehr, Es-shehr), trade with India, incense, Ichthyophagi; singular sheep.

Essentemur (Isentimur), Kublai's grandson, king of Carajan.

_Estimo_, Venetian, or forced loan.

Etchmiadzin Monastery.

Ethiopia and India, confused.

Ethiopian sheep.

Etiquette of the Mongol Court.

Etymologies, _Bal.u.s.trade_; buckram; Avigi; Geliz (Gh.e.l.le); Jatolic; muslin; baudekins; cramoisy; ondanique; zebu; carbine; Dulcarnon; balas; azure and lazuli; None; Mawmet and Mummery; salamander; berrie; barguerlac; S'ling; siclatoun; Argon; Tungani; Guasmul; chakor; Jadu and Yadah; Tafur; Bacsi; Sensin; P'ungyi; _carquois_; Kes.h.i.+kan; vernique; camut, borgal, s.h.a.green; Chinuchi or Chunichi; Toscaol; Bularguchi; Fondaco; Bailo; comerque; porcelain; Sangon; f.a.ghfur; Manjanik, mangonel, mangle, etc.; galingale; Chini and Misri; Satin; eagle-wood, aloes-wood; Bonus, Calamanz; benzoni; china paG.o.da; Pacauca; Balanjar, a-muck; Pariah; Govi; Avarian; Abraiaman; Choiach; proques; Tembul and Betel; Sappan and Brazil; Balladi; Belledi; Indigo baccadeo; Gatpaul, baboon; Salami cinnamon; [Greek: komakon]; rook (in chess); Aranie; Erculin and Vair; Miskal.

---- (of Proper Names), Curd; Dzungaria; Chingintalas; Cambuscan; Oirad; Kungurat; Manzi; Bayan; Kinsay; j.a.pan; Sornau; Narkandam; Ceylon; Ma'bar; Chilaw; Mailapur; Sonagarpattanam; Punnei-Kayal, Kayal; Kollam (Coilum); Hili (Ely); Cambaet; Mangla and Nebila; Socotra; Colesseeah; Caligine; Aijaruc; Nemej.

---- Chinese.

Etzina.

Eunuchs, procured from Bengal.

Euphrates, said to flow into the Caspian.

_Euphratesia_.

Euxine, _see_ Black Sea.

Evelyn's _Diary_.

Execution of Princes of the Blood, mode of.

Eyircaya.

Facen, Dr. J.

f.a.ghfur (Facfur, Emperor of Southern China), meaning of t.i.tle; his effeminate diversions; decay of his palace.

Faizabad in Badakhshan.

Fakanur.

Fakata.

Fakhruddin Ahmad, Prince of Hormuz.

Falconers, Kublai's.

Falcons, of Kerman, Saker and Lanner; peregrine; Kublai's.

Famine, horrors.

_Fanchan, P'ingchang_, t.i.tle of a second cla.s.s Cabinet Minister.

Fanchan Lake.

Fan-ching, siege of.

Fandaraina.

_Fang, see_ Squares.

Fansur, in Sumatra, kingdom of.

Fansuri camphor.

Fan Wen-hu, or Fan-bunko, a General in j.a.panese Expedition.

Fariab, or Pariab.

Faro of Constantinople.

Farriers, none in S. India.

Fars, province.

Fas.h.i.+yah, Atabeg dynasty.

Fa.s.sa.

Fasting days, Buddhist.

Fattan, in Ma'bar.

Fatten, 'Ali Shah.

Fausto, Vettor, his Quinquereme.

Fazl, Ibn Ha.s.san (Fazlueh-Hasuneh).

Feili, Lurs dynasty.

Female attendants on Chinese Emperors.

Ferlec, in Sumatra, kingdom of (Parlak), Hill people.

Fernandez, or Moravia, Valentine.

Ferrier, General.

Festivals, Order of the Kaan's.

Fiag, or Pog River.

_Ficus Vasta_.

_Fidawi_, Ismailite adepts.

Filial Piety in China.