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[33] _Astley_ (iv. p. 620): "The next Traveller we meet with into _Tartary_, and the Eastern Countries, after _Marco Polo_, is Friar _Odoric_, of _Udin_ in Friuli, a _Cordelier_; who set-about the Year 1318, and at his Return the Relation of it was drawn-up, from his own Mouth, by Friar _William_ of _Solanga_, in 1330. _Ramusio_ has inserted it in _Italian_, in the second Volume of his Collection; as _Hakluyt_, in his Navigations, has done the _Latin_, with an _English_ Translation. This is a most superficial Relation, and full of _Lies_; such as People with the Heads of Beasts, and Valleys haunted with Spirits: In one of which he pretends to have entered, protected by the Sign of the Cross; yet fled for Fear, at the Sight of a Face that grinned at him. In short, though he relates some Things on the _Tartars_ and _Manci_ (as he writes _Manji_) which agree with _Polo's_ Account; yet it seems plain, from the Names of Places and other Circ.u.mstances, that he never was in those Countries, but imposed on the Public the few Informations he had from others, mixed with the many Fictions of his own. He set out again for the East in 1331; but warned, it seems, by an Apparition a few Miles from _Padua_, he returned thither, and died." And a final blow in the index: "_Oderic, Friar, Travels of_, iv. 620 a. _A great liar!!_"

[34] E.B. Nicholson.--Letters to the _Academy_, 11th November, 1876; 12th February, 1881. E.B.N. and Henry Yule, MANDEVILLE, in _Encyclopaedia Britannica_, 9th ed., 1883, pp. 472-475.

[35] Die ungedruckten Lateinischen Versionen Mandeville's. (Beilage zum Programm des Gymnasiums zu Crefeld.) 1886.

[36] Untersuchungen uber Johan von Mandeville und die Quellen seiner Reisebeschreibung. Von Albert Bovenschen. (_Zeitschrift d. Ges. fur Erdkunde zu Berlin_, XXIII. Bd., 3 u. 4 Hft. No. 135, 136, pp.

177-306.)

[37] (1) Itinerarivm // per nonnv. las // Galliae Belgicae partes, // Abrahami Ortelii et // Ioannis Viviani. // Ad Gerardvm Mercatorem, // Cosmographvm. // Antverpiae, // Ex officina Christophori Plantini.

// clo. lo. lx.x.xiv. // small 8vo, pp. 15-16.

(2) Read 1372.

(3) _Purchas, His Pilgrimes_, 3rd Pt., Lond., 1625, reproduces it on p. 128: "Hic jacet vir n.o.bilis, D. _Ioannes de Mandeville_, aliter dictus ad Barbam, Miles, Dominus de Campdi, natus de Anglia, Medicinae Professor, deuotissimus, orator, & bonorum largissimus pauperibus erogator qui toto quasi orbe l.u.s.trato, _Leodij_ diem vitae suae clausit extremum. Anno Dom. 1371, Mensis Nouembris, die 17."

[38] _Bibliotheque nationale:--Catalogue des ma.n.u.scrits des fonds Libri et Barrois_. Paris, 1888. 8vo. cf. pp. 251-253.

INDEX

Aas, Asu, _see_ Alans.

Abacan, a Tartar general.

abah, _see_ avah.

Abaji, Kublai's son.

Abaka (Abaga), Khan of Persia.

Abano, Pietro of, his notice of Polo.

Abash (Habsh), _see_ Abyssinia.

Abba Gregory.

Abbas, Shah.

Abbott, Consul Keith E..

Abdul Kuri islands.

---- Mejid.

Abeskun (Baxon), on the Caspian.

Abher.

Abkas.h.i.+an forests, boxwood of the.

_Abnus_, ebony.

Abraha, ruler of Yemen.

Abraiaman, _see_ Brahmans.

Abubakr, Atabeg of Fars.

---- Ibrahim, and Mahomed, engineers employed by Kublai.

Abu'l Abbas Ahmed VII., Khalif of Baghdad.

---- Fazl Abulfeda, his geography; at the siege of Acre.

Abulfiez Khan, king of Bokhara.

Abu Nasr Mohammed IX., Khalif of Baghdad.

---- Sad.

Abyssinia (Abash), its king's punishment of Soldan of Aden; dominion on the coast, mediaeval history and chronology; table of kings; wars with Mahomedan states.

Acbalec Manzi, "White City of the Manzi frontier".

Acbalec or Acbaluc (Cheng-ting fu).

Accambale, king of Champa.

Achar.

Achin, Acheh, Achem, its gold and lign-aloes; conversion of; its great power at one time; elephants at.

---- Head.

Achmath, the Bailo, _see_ Ahmad.

Acomat Soldan (Ahmad Sultan), seizes throne of Tabriz; goes to encounter Argon; rejects his remonstrance; defeats and takes him; hears of Argon's escape, is taken and put to death; notes on the history.

Acorn bread.

Acqui, Friar Jacopo d', his notice of Polo.

Acre, Broils at, between Venetians and Genoese; plan of; captured by Saracens; wickedness of; Polos at.

Adam, Bishop and Pope of China.

---- Seth, and the Tree of Life, legend of.

Adamodana, Castle of.

Adam's Apple.

---- sepulchre on mountain (Adam's Peak) in Ceylon, rubies; his teeth, hair, etc.; the footmark.

Adel, apparently confused with Aden.

Aden, Horse and other Trade with India, Soldan's treatment of a bishop; Vengeance of King of Abyssinia on him; confused with Adel; account of Kingdom; the Sultan; intercourse and trade with China, tanks; view of.

Adoration of the Emperor.

_Adulis_, inscription of.

Aegae, Ayas on the site of ancient.

Aepyornis and its eggs.

Aetius, his prescription of musk, of camphor.

Afghans, their use of the fat-tailed sheep.

Africa, Sea surrounding to the South.

Aga.s.siz, Professor.

Agathocles, Coins of.

[Greek: Agathou daimonos], island.

Agha Ali Shah, present representative of the Old Man of the Mountain.

---- Khan Mehelati, late representative of the Old Man.

Aghrukji or Ukuruji, Kublai's son.

Agricola, Governor of Cappadocia, etc.

Aguil, Mongol general.

Ahmad (Achmath), the Bailo, of Fenaket, his power, oppressions, death, etc.

---- Sultan, Khan of Persia, _see_ Acomat.

Ahwaz, province.

Aidhab.

Aidhej, or Mal-Amir.

Aijaruc, Kaidu's daughter, her strength and prowess; her name.

Aikah Nowin, Engineer in Chief of Chinghiz.

Ai-lao (afterwards Nan-chao), ancient name of the Shans.

_Ain Akbari (Ayeen Akbery)_.

Ajmir.

Akbar and Kublai, a parallel.

Ak Bulak salt mines.