The Travels of Marco Polo Volume II Part 135

---- (posthumous) amongst Tartars.

---- laxities of different peoples.

---- laxities in Thibet.

Mar Sarghis.

Marsden's edition of Polo.

Martin, Dr. Ernest, of French Legation at Pekin.

Martini, his _Atlas Sinensis_; his account of Kinsay.

Martyrs, Franciscan.

_Masalak-al-Absar_.

Mashhad (Meshed), or Varsach River.

Mas.h.i.+z.

Maskat.

Mastiff Dogs, Keepers of the.

Mastiffs of Tibet, _see_ Dogs.

Mastodon, bogged.

Mas'ud II., Ghiath ed-din-Seljuk dynasty.

Mas'udi.

Masulipatam.

Matchlocks, manufacture at Kerman, at Taianfu.

Ma-t'eu (Matu).

Mati Dhivaja, _see_ Bashpah Lama.

Mat.i.tanana.

Mat.i.tyna (Martinique).

Matzner, Eduard.

Maundevile, Sir John (John a Beard), on lying in water; Cloths of Tartary; Trees of the Sun; Dry Tree; his Book of Travels; English version; his tomb.

Maung Maorong, or Pong, Shan kingdom.

Mauro, Fra, his map.

Mausul (Mosul), kingdom of.

_Mauvenu_ (Malvennez), the phrase.

Mayers, W.F.

Mayhew, A.L., on _Couvade_.

Mazanderan, province.

_Mecchino_, Ginger.

Medressehs at Sivas.

Mekhitar.

Mekong River (Lan-tsang kiang).

Mekran, often reckoned part of India.

Mekranis.

Melchior, one of the Magi.

Melibar, _see_ Malabar.

Melic, the t.i.tle.

Melons, dried, of s.h.i.+brgan.

Menangkabau.

Mendoza.

Menezes, Duarte.

Mengki, envoy to Java.

Menjar (Majar?).

Menuvair and Grosvair.

Merghuz Boiruk Khan.

Merkit (Mecrit, Mescript), a Tartar tribe.

Mes.h.i.+d (more correctly Mashhad).

Messengers, Royal Mongol.

Mexico.

Meyer, Paul, _Alexandre le Grand_.

Miafarakain.

Miau-tzu.

Mien, Amien, Ava (Burma), king of, his battle with Tartars; City of; its gold and silver towers; how it was conquered; communications and war with Mongols; Chinese notices.

Mikado.

Military engines of the Middle Ages, dissertation on; two cla.s.ses; _Trebuchets_; Balista; shot used, carrion, live men, bags of gold; _Mangonel_; Napoleon's experiments with heavy shot; size and accuracy; length of range (Sanudo on); effect of Mangonel on Saracens; procured by Kublai for siege of Siang-yang; Chinese and Persian histories on; known to Mongols and Chinese; the _Karabugha_, or _Calabra_; the _P'ao_.

Milk, portable, or curd.

Milk, rite of sprinkling Mare's.

Million, use of the numeral.

Millione, Millioni, nickname for Polo and his book.

Millioni, Corte del.

Milne.

Minao district.

Mines and Minerals, _see_ Iron, Silver, etc.

Minever, _see_ Menuvair.

Ming, the Chinese dynasty which ousted the Mongols, A.D. 1368, their changes in Peking; their paper-money; their effeminate customs; expeditions to India; annals.

Mingan, Khan's Master of Hounds.

Ming-ti, Emperor.

Minjan, dialect of.

Minotto, Professor A.S.

Min River (in Fokien).

---- River (in Szech'wan).

Mint, the Khan's.

Mintsing-hien.

Mious River.

Miracle Stories, fish in Lent; Mountain moved; St. Barsamo's girdles; Holy Fire; Stone at Samarkand; at St. Thomas' Shrine.

Mirat.

_Mire_ French for leech.

Mirkhond.

Mirobolans.

_Miskal_, a weight. (_See_ also Saggio.).

_Misri_, sugar-candy.

Missionary Friars, powers conferred on, in China in 14th century.

---- Martyrs.

Moa of New Zealand.

Modhafferians, the.

Modun Khotan ("Wood-ville").

Moghistan.

Mohammed, son of Yusuf Kelefi, founder of s.h.i.+raz.

Mohammerah.

Mohiuddin.

Mokli, the Jelair.

Molayu.

Molebar, _see_ Malabar.

Molephatan.

Moliere, _Pastorale Comique_.