The Travels of Marco Polo Volume II Part 146

---- River.

Swi-fu.

Sword blades of India.

Syghinan, _see_ s.h.i.+ghnan.

Sykes, Major P. Molesworth.

Sylen (Ceylon).

Symbolical messages, Scythian and Tartar.

Syrian Christians.

_Syrrhaptes Pallasii, see_ Barguerlac.

Szechenyi, Count.

Sze-ch'wan (Ch'eng-tu), aborigines.

Tabas.h.i.+r.

Tabbas.

Table of the Great Khan.

Tables, how disposed at Mongol feasts.

Tablet, Emperor's, adored with incense.

Tablets of Authority, Golden (_Paizah_), presented by Khan to Polos; lion's head and gerfalcon; bestowed on distinguished captains, inscription; cat's head; granted to governors of different rank.

---- wors.h.i.+pped by Cathayans.

Tabriz (Tauris).

Tachindo, _see_ Ta-ts'ien-lu.

Tacitus, _Claustra Caspiorum_, Pa.s.s of Derbend.

Tactics, Tartar.

Tacuin.

Tadinfu.

Taeping Insurrection and Devastations.

Taeping, or Taiping, Sovereigns' effeminate customs.

Taffetas.

Taft, near Yezd, turquoise at.

Tafurs.

Tagachar.

Tagaung.

Tagharma Pa.s.s.

Taghdungbash River.

Taianfu (T'ai-yuan-fu), king of N. China.

Taiani.

Taican, _see_ Talikan.

Taichau (Tigu).

T'aiching-Kwan.

Taidu, Daitu, Tatu, Kublai's new city of Cambaluc.

Taikung, _see_ Tagaung.

Tailed men, in Sumatra, elsewhere; English.

Tailors, none in Maabar.

Taimuni tribe.

Taiting-fu (Tadinfu), or Yenchau.

Taitong-fu, see Tathung.

Tai-tsu, Emperor.

T'ai Tsung, Emperor.

Tatyang Khan (Great King), king of the Naimans.

Tajiks of Badakhshan, great topers.

Takfur.

Takhtapul.

Taki-uddin, Abdu-r Rahman.

Takla-Makan.

Talains.

Talas River.

Tali, gold mines.

Talifu (Carajan).

Talikan, Thaikan (Taican).

Tallies, record by.

Tamarind, pirates use of.

Tamerlan.

Tana (Azov).

---- near Bombay, kingdom of Tana-Maiambu.

Tana-Malayu.

Tanasi cloth.

Tanduc, see Tenduc.

T'ang dynasty.

Tangnu Oola, branch of Altai.

Tangut province, Chinese Si Hia, or Ho Si, five invasions of.

Tangutan, term applied to Tibetan speaking people round the Koko-nor.

Tanjore, Suttee at; PaG.o.da at; fertility of.

Tankiz Khan, applied to Chinghiz.

Tanpiju (Shaohing?).

Tantras, Tantrika, Tantrists.

Tao-lin, a Buddhist monk.

Tao-sze (Taosse), sect, female idols of the.

Ta-pa-Shan range.

Taprobana, mistakes about.

Tarakai.

Tarantula.

_Tarcasci_.

Tarem, or Tarum.

Tares of the parable.

Tarikh-i-Ras.h.i.+di.

Tarmabala, Kublai's grandson.

_Tarok_, Burmese name for Chinese.

Tarok Man and Tarok Myo.

Tartar language, on Tartar, its correct form; misuse by Ramusio.

Tartars, different characters used by; identified with Gog and Magog; ladies; their first city; original country, tributary to Prester John; revolt and migration; earliest mention of the word; make Chinghiz their king; his successors; their customs and religion; houses; waggons; chast.i.ty of their women; polygamy, etc.; their G.o.ds and idols; their drink (k.u.miz); cloths; arms, horses, and war customs; military organization; sustenance on rapid marches; blood-sucking; portable curd; tactics in war; degeneracy; administration of justice; laws against theft; posthumous marriage; the cudgel; Rubruquis' account of; Joinville's; custom before a fight; want of charity to the poor; conquerors of China, history of; excellence in archery; objection to meddling with things pertaining to the dead; admiration of the Polo mangonels; employment of military engines; their cruelties; arrows; marriage customs.

---- in the Far North.

---- of the Levant, see Levant.

---- of the Ponent, see Ponent.

Tartary cloths.

Tarungares, tribe.

Tash Kurgan.

Tatariya coins.

Tathung, or Taitongfu.

Ta-t'sien-lu, or Tachindo, Tartsedo.

Ta Tsing River.