The Travels of Marco Polo Volume II Part 125

Genoese, their growth in skill and splendour, character as seamen by poet of their own; character by old Italian author; capture of Soldaia; their navigation of the Caspian; trade in box-wood; their merchants at Tabriz; in Fo-kien.

Gentile Plural names converted into local singulars.

Geographical Text of Polo's Book constantly quoted, its language; proofs that it is the original; tautology; source of other texts.

George (Jirjis, Yurji, Gurgan), king of Tenduc, of the time of Prester John; a possible descendant of.

Georgia (Georgiana), beauty of, and its inhabitants; their kings.

Gerfalcons (Shonkar); tablets engraved with.

Gerini, Colonel.

German Follower of the Polos.

Ghaissuddin Balban (Asedin Soldan), Sultan of Delhi.

Gharan country, ruby mines in.

Ghazan (Casan) Khan of Persia, son of Arghun, his regard for the Polos; marries the Lady Kukachin; his mosque at Tabriz; set to watch the Khorasan frontier; obtains the throne; his object and accomplishments.

Ghel, or Ghelan (Ghel-u-chelan), Sea of, Caspian Sea.

Gh.e.l.le (Gili), silk of the Gil province.

Ghes, or Kenn (formerly Kish or Kais).

_Ghez_ tree.

Ghiuju.

Ghiyas ed-din, last Prince of Kurd dynasty.

Ghori, or Aksarai River.

_Ghuls_, goblins.

Ghur.

Giglioli, Professor H.

Gil, or Gilan, province.

Gilgit.

Gill, Captain (_River of Golden Sand_).

Ginao, Mt. and Hot Springs.

Gindanes of Herodotus.

Ginger, Shan-si; Caindu; alleged to grow in Kiangnan; Fuju; Coilum; different qualities and prices of; Ely; Malabar; Guzerat.

Giraffes, mediaeval notices of.

Girardo, Paul.

Girdkuh, an Ismailite fortress, its long defence.

Girls, consecrated to idols in India.

Gittarchan, _see_ Astrakhan.

Glaza (Ayas, _q.v._).

Gleemen and jugglers, conquer Mien.

Goa.

Gobernador, Straits of.

Goes, Benedict.

Gog and Magog (Ung and Mungul), legend of; rampart of; country of; name suggested by Wall of China.

Gogo.

Goitre at Yarkand.

Golconda diamond mines.

Gold, Frankincense, and Myrrh, their mystic meaning.

Gold dust in Tibet, exchanged for salt in Caindu; Brius River; in Kin-s.h.i.+a-Kiang; and nuggets in Carajan; abundant in Yun-nan; Caugigu; Coloman; infinite in Chipangu; in Sea of Chin Islands; dust in Gulf of Cheinan Islands; not found in Java; in Locac; the Malayo-Siamese territories; Sumatra; vast acc.u.mulations in South India; imported into Malabar; and into Cambay; purchased in Socotra.

Gold and silver towers of Mien.

---- cloths of. (_See_ Silk and Gold.).

---- of the Gryphons in Herodotus.

---- Teeth (Zardandan), Western Yun-nan.

---- to silver, relative value of.

Golden King and Prester John, tale of the.

---- Island.

---- Horde (kings of the Ponent).

_Golfo, Indigo di_.

Gomispola, Gomispoda, _see_ Gauenispola.

Gomushtapah, Wall of.

Gomuti palm.

Gondophares, a king in the St. Thomas legends.

Gordon's "Ever Victorious Army".

Gordun Shah.

Goring, F.

Goriosan.

_Gor Khar_, wild a.s.s.

Goshawks, black.

Gothia (Crimean), its limit and language.

Govy, a low caste in Maabar.

Goza.

Gozurat, _see_ Guzerat.

Grail, Buddhist parallel to the Holy.

Granaries, Imperial.

Grapes in Shan-si.

Gra.s.s-cloths.

Gra.s.so, Donato.

Great Bear (Meistre), and Little, force of, and application of these epithets.

Great, or Greater Sea (Black Sea).

Greece, Bactria's relation to.

Greek fire.

Greeks, in Turcomania, and Greek tongue in Socotra; possible relic of.

Green, Rev. D.D.

---- Island, legendary.

---- Islands.

---- Mount, Cambaluc.

---- R., _see_ Tsien Tang.

Gregorieff, his excavations at Sarai.

Gregory X., Pope, _see_ Theobald of Piacenza.

Grenard.

Grioni, Zanino.

_Griut_ (_kurut_), sour-curd.

Groat, Venetian _grosso_.

Groot, Professor, J.J.M. de.

Grote, Arthur.

Grueber and Dorville, Jesuit travellers.

_Grus, cinerea, antigone, leucogera.n.u.s, monachus_.

Gryphon, _see_ Rue.

Guasmul (Basmul), half-breeds.

Guchluk.

Gudar (village).

_Gudderi_, musk animals, Tibet.

Gudran.

Guebers, the.

Gujah, Hulaku's chief secretary.

_Gugal_, bdellum.