The Travels of Marco Polo Volume II Part 139

Pasha-Afroz.

Pasha and Pas.h.a.gar tribes.

Pashai, what region intended.

---- Dir.

Pa.s.so (or Pace), Venetian.

Patarins, heretics.

_Patera_, debased Greek, from Badakhshan.

Patlam.

_Patra_, or Alms-dish of Buddha, miraculous properties; Holy Grail of Buddhism.

Patriarchs of Eastern Christians. (_See_ also Catholicos and Nestorian.).

Patteik-Kara.

Patterns, beast and bird, on silk, etc.

Patu, _see_ Batu.

Paukin (Pao-ying).

Pauthier, G., remarks on text of Polo.

Paved roads in China.

---- streets of Kinsay.

Payan, _see_ Bayan.

Payangadi.

Pa-yi writing, specimen of.

Peaches, yellow and white (apricots).

Peac.o.c.ks at St. Thomas's, special kind in Coilum.

Pearls, in Caindu; rose-coloured in Chipangu; fishery of; pearls and precious stones of kingdom of Maabar.

Pears, enormous.

Pedir.

Pedro, Prince of Portugal.

Pegu and Bengal confounded.

Pei-chau (Piju).

Pein (Pim), province, site of.

Peking, white paG.o.da at. (_See_ Cambaluc.).

Pelly, Col. Sir Lewis, British Resident at Bus.h.i.+re.

Pema-ching.

Pemberton, Captain R.

Pentam (Bintang).

Pepper, daily consumption of, at Kinsay, change in Chinese use of; great importation at Zayton, duty on; white and black; in Coilum; Eli and Cananore; Melibar; Guzerat; trade in, to Alexandria.

Pepper Country.

Peregrine falcons.

Perla (Ferlec).

Persia, extent of name to Bokhara, spoken of; three Magi of; its eight kingdoms.

Persia and India, boundary of.

Persian applied to language of foreigners at Mongol Court.

Persian Gulf (Sea of India?).

Peshawar.

Peter, Tartar slave of Marco Polo's.

Pharaoh's rats (Gerboa).

Phayre, Major-General Sir Arthur.

Pheasants, large and long tailed, Reeves's.

Pheng (the Rukh).

Philip the Fair.

Philip III. and IV. of France.

Philippine Islands.

Phillips, G.

Phipps, Captain.

Phra Rama, Siamese kings so-called.

Phungan, Phungan-lu (Fungul?).

Physician, a virtuous.

Physicians.

Pianfu (P'ing-yang fu).

_Piccoli_.

Pichalok.

Pievtsov, General, expedition.

Pigeon posts.

Pig-sh.e.l.ls.

Piju (Pei-chau).

Pilgrimage, to Adam's Sepulchre in Ceylon, to Shrine of St. Thomas.

"Pillar Road".

Pima (Pim).

Pinati, king of Kaulam.

Pine woods in Mongolian desert.

---- in South China.

P'ing-chang, Fanchan, or second cla.s.s Minister.

P'ing-yang fu (Pianfu).

Pinna-Cael (Punnei-Kayal).

Pipino, Friar Francesco.

Pirabandi or Bir Pandi (Vira Pandi).

Pirada.

Pirates of Malabar, Guzerat; Tana; Somnath; Socotra.

Piratical customs at Eli.

Pistachioes.

Plane, Oriental or Chinar.

Plano Carpini.

Pog, or Fiag River.

Poison, antidote to.

Poisoning guests, custom of.

Poisonous pasturage.

Poison wind.

Poland, Mongol invasion of.

Pole, or Jackdaw on Polo's scutcheon.

Pole-star, invisible in Java the Less, visible again in India.

Police, of Cambaluc; Kinsay.

Politeness of Chinese.

Polo, Andrea, grandfather of Marco.

---- Antonio, illegitimate son of Elder Marco.

---- Bellela, second daughter, died before 1333.

---- Donata, wife of Traveller, sale of property to her husband; death between 1333-1336; before Council; may have been Loredano.

---- or Bragadino, Fantina, eldest daughter of Traveller.

---- Felice, a cousin.

---- Fiordelisa, wife of last.

Polo, Fiordelisa, daughter of Maffeo the Younger.

---- Maffeo, brother of Nicolo, in Kan-chau; time of death between 1309 and 1318.