Fowls with hair.
Foxes, black.
Fozlan, Ibn.
Fra terre (Interior).
Fracastoro, Jerome.
Franciscan converts,
in Volga region
at Yang-chau;
Zayton.
Francolin (darraj of the Persians), black partridge.
Frankincense, see Incense.
Frederic II., Emperor,
his account of the Tartars;
story of implicit obedience;
his cheetas;
his leather money;
his giraffe.
French,
the original language of Polo’s Book;
its large diffusion in that age.
French Expedition up the Kamboja River.
Frenchmen, riding long like.
French mission and missionaries in China.
Frere charnel.
Frere, Sir B.
Froissart.
Fu-chau (Fo-kien, Fuju),
paper-money at;
wild hill people of;
its identity;
language of;
tooth relique at.
Fuen (Fen) ho River.
Funeral rites, Chinese,
in Tangut;
of the Kaans;
at Kinsay.
(See also Dead.).
Fungul, city of.
Furs, of the Northern Regions.
Fusang, Mexico (?).
Fuyang.
Fuzo, see Fu-chau.
Gabala, Bishop of.
Gagry, maritime defile of.
Gaisue, officer of Kublai’s Mathematical Board.
Galeasse, Venetian gallery.
Galingale.
Galletti, Marco.
Galleys of the Middle Ages, war,
arrangement of rowers;
number of oars;
dimensions;
tactics in fight;
toil in rowing;
strength and cost of crew;
staff of fleet;
Joinville’s description of;
customs of.
Galley-slaves not usual in Middle Ages.
Gambling, prohibited by Kublai.
Game, see Sport.
Game Laws, Mongol.
Game, supplied to Court of Cambaluc.
Ganapati Kings.
Gandar, Father.
Gandhara,
Buddhist name for Yun-nan.
Ganfu, port of Kinsay.
Ganja, gate of.
Gan-p’u.
Gantanpouhoa, Kublai’s son.
Gantur.
Gardenia, fruit and dyes.
Gardiner’s (misprinted Gardner’s) Travels.
Gardner, C.
Garmsir, Ghermseer (Cremesor), Hot Region.
Garnier, Lieut. Francis (journey to Talifu).
Garrisons, Mongol, in Cathay and Manzi,
disliked by the people.
Garuda.
Gate of Iron, ascribed to Derbend.
Gates, of Kaan’s palace,
of Cambaluc;
of Somnath.
Gat-pauls, Gatopaul, Gatos-paulas.
Gatto maimone.
Gauenispola Island.
Gaur (Bos Gaurus, etc.).
Gauristan.
Gavraz villages.
Gazaria.
Gedrosi.
Gelath in Imeretia, Iron Gate at.
Geliz, Spanish for silk dealer.
Genealogy of Polos,
errors as given by Barbaro, etc.,
in;
tabular;
of House of Chinghiz.
Genoa, Polo’s captivity at.
—— and Pisa, rivalry, and wars of.
—— and Venice, rivalry and wars
of.
Genoese, their growth in skill and splendour,
character as seamen by poet of their own;