their alleged service in capture of Siang-yang;
  Khan refuses them permission to return home;
  allowed to go with ambassadors;
  receive Golden Tablets;
  on return;
  story of their arrival at Venice;
  scheme to assert their identity.
——­ Nicolo, his alleged second marriage and sons;
  probable truth as to time of;
  his illegitimate sons;
  approximate time of his death;
  his tomb.
——­ Nicolo the Younger, cousin of traveller.
——­ Stefano and Giovannino, illegitimate brothers of Traveller.
——­ (?), or Trevisano (?), Fiordelisa, perhaps second wife of Nicolo Polo
    the Elder, and mother of Maffeo the Younger.
——­ or Trevisano, Maria, last survivor of the family,
  doubts as to her kindred.
——­ Family, its duration and end, according to Ramusio,
  origin;
  last notices of. 
  (For relationship of different Polos, see table).
——­ Family, branch of S. Geremia.
Po-lut (Pa-lut), incense. 
Polygamy,
  supposed effect on population.
Pomilo (Pamir).
Pompholyx. 
Ponent, or West, term applied by Polo to Kipchak, the Mongol Khanate of
    the Volga, see Kipchak. 
Pong (Mediaeval Shan State). 
Poods, Russian. 
Popinjays. 
Population, vast, of Cathay. 
Porcelain manufacture,
  fragments found at Kayal;
  Chinese.
——­ shells, see Cowries. 
Porcupines. 
Pork, mention of, omitted.
Postin, sheep-skin coat. 
Posts, post-houses and runners,
  in Siberia. 
Po-sz’ (Persia). 
Potala at L’hasa. 
Pottinger. 
Poultry, kind of, in Coilum,
  in Abyssinia (guinea-fowl?). 
Pound, sterling.
Pourpre, or Purpura. 
P’o-yang Lake. 
Pozdneiev, Professor. 
Precious stones or gems,
  how discovered by pirates. 
Prester John (Unc Can, Aung or Ung Khan),
  Tartar tribute to;
  account of;
  marriage relations with Chinghiz;
  insults Chinghiz’ envoys;
  “these be no soldiers”;
  marches to meet Chinghiz;
  real site of battle with Chinghiz;
  his real fate;
  slain in battle;
  his lineage in Tenduc;
  and the Golden King. 
Prices of horses, see Horses. 
Printing, imaginary connection of Polo’s name with introduction of. 
Private names supposed. 
Prjevalsky, Colonel N.M. 
Probation of Jogis,
  parallel. 
Prophecy regarding Bayan.
Proques, the word. 
Prostitutes; at Cambaluc,
  Kinsay. 
Provinces, thirty-four of Kublai’s Empire. 
Pseudo-Callisthenes. 
Ptolemies’ trained African elephants. 
Ptolemy,
  Sarmatic Gates. 
P’u-chau fu. 
Pu-ch’eng. 
Puer and Esmok. 
Pukan Mien-Wang. 
Pulad Chingsang. 
Pulisanghin, River and Bridge. 
Pulo Bras. 
Pulo Condore (Sondur and Condur). 
Pulo Gommes (Gauenispola). 
Pulo Nankai, or Nasi. 
Pulo We, Wai, or Wey. 
Punnei-Kayal. 
Puranas, the.
Purpura, see Pourpre. 
Putchok. 
Putu-ho, “Grape R.”. 
Pygmies, factitious (?).