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---- Roch.e.l.le.

---- Sarain.

Seal, Imperial.

Sebaste, _see_ Sivas.

Sebourc, Bauduin de, _see Bauduin de Sebourc_.

Sees of Latin Church.

---- Nestorian Church.

Sefaviehs, the.

Seilan, _see_ Ceylon.

Self-decapitation.

Selitrennoye Gorodok (Saltpetre Town).

Seljukian dynasty.

---- Turks.

_Selles, chevaux a deux_, the phrase.

Semal tree.

Semedo.

s.e.m.e.nat, _see_ Somnath.

Sempad, Prince, High Constable of Armenia.

Sendal, a silk texture.

_Sendaus_, generally Taffetas.

Sendemain, king of Seilan.

Seneca, _Epistles_.

Senecherim, king of Armenia.

Seni, Verzino.

_Sens.h.i.+ng_.

Sensin, ascetics, devotees living on bran.

Sentemur.

Sepulchre of Adam, _see_ Adam's Sepulchre.

---- of our Lord, oil from.

Serano, Juan de.

Serazi (s.h.i.+raz), kingdom of Persia.

Serendib.

_Seres_, _Sinae_, their tree wool; ancient character of the.

Serpents, great, i.e. alligators.

Sertorius.

Sesame.

_Sesnes_, mediaeval form of _cygnet_, _cigne_.

_Seta Gh.e.l.la_, _seta Leggi_ (Gh.e.l.le), silk.

Seth's mission to Paradise.

Sevan Lake.

Seven Arts, the.

Severtsoff, shoots the _Ovis Poli_, on the name Bolor.

Seyyed Barghash, Sultan of Zanzibar.

Shabankara, or Shaw.a.n.kara (Soncara).

Shabar, son of Kaidu.

Sha-chau (Sachin), "Sand-district".

Shadow, augury from length of Shah Abbas, his Court.

---- Jahan.

Shahr-i-Babek, turquoise mine at.

Shahr-i-Nao (Siam).

Shahr Mandi, or Pandi.

Shah Werdy, last of the Kurs.h.i.+d dynasty.

Shaibani Khan.

_Shaikh-ul-Jibal_.

Shaikhs (Esheks), in Madagascar.

Shakespeare, on relation of gold to silver.

Shaliat.

Shamanism. (_See_ also Devil-Dancing.).

Shampath, ancestor of Georgian kings.

Shamsuddin Shamatrani.

Sham.u.t.h.e.ra, _see_ Sumatra.

Shan (Laotian, or _Thai_).

---- race and country.

---- dynasty in Yun-nan.

---- ponies.

---- state of Pong, _see_ Pong.

Shanars of Tinnevelly, their devil-wors.h.i.+p.

Shang-hai.

Shangking-Fungking.

Shangtu, Shangdu (Chandu), Kublai's City and Summer Palace; Dr. Bush.e.l.l's description of; Kublai's annual visit to.

Shangtu Keibung.

Shan-hai-kwan.

Shankarah, Shabankara (Soncara).

Shan-si.

Shan-tung, silk in; pears from.

Shao-hing-fu.

Shao-ling, pariah caste of.

Sharakhs.

Shara-ul-buks (Forest of box on the Black Sea).

Sharks and shark charmers.

Shauls, or Shuls, the.

Shaw.a.n.kara (Soncara).

Shaw, R.B.

Shawls of Kerman.

Sheep, fat-tailed in Kerman.

---- four-horned at Shehr.

---- large Indian.

---- none in Manzi.

---- of Pamir (_Ovis Poli_).

---- wild, of Badakhshan (Kachkar, _Ovis Vignei_).

---- with trucks behind.

---- Zanghibar.

Sheep's head given to horses.

Shehr, or s.h.i.+hr, _see_ Esher.

Shehrizor (Kerkuk).

Shenrabs.

Shen-si.

Shentseu tribe.

Sheuping.

Shewa, cool plateau of.