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Hochau, in Sze-chwan, Mangku Khan's death at.
---- in Kansuh.
Hochung-fu (Cachanfu).
Hodgson, Mr.
h.o.e.rnle, Dr.
Hojos.
Hokien-fu (Cacanfu).
Hokow, or Hokeu.
Holcombe, Rev. C., on Hwai-lu; on Yellow River; on Pia-chau fu; on road from T'ung-kwan to Si-ngan fu.
Hollingworth, H.G.
Holy Sepulchre, oil from lamp of.
Homeritae.
Homi-cheu, or Ngo-ning.
_Homme_, its technical use.
Hondius map.
Ho-nhi, or Ngo-ning (Anin) tribe (_See_ Homi-cheu.).
Hooker, Sir Joseph, on bamboo explosion.
Horiad (Oirad, or Uirad) tribe.
Hormuz (Hormos, Curmosa), trade with India; a sickly place; the people's diet; s.h.i.+ps; great heat and fatal wind; crops, mourning customs; the king of; another road to Kerman from; route from Kerman to; site of the old city; foundation of; history of; merchants; horses exported to India from; the Melik of.
---- Island, or Jerun, Organa of Arian.
Hormuzdia.
Horns of Ovis Poli.
Horoscopes, in China, in Maabar.
Horse-posts and Post-houses.
Horses, Turkish, Persian; of Badakhshan, strain of Bucephalus; sacrificed at Kaans' tombs; Tartar; and white mares; presented to Kaan on New Year's Day; of Carajan; their tails docked; of Anin; tracking by; decorated with Yaks' tails; now bred in S. India.
---- great trade and prices in importing to India from Persia, modes of s.h.i.+pment; from Carajan; from Anin; from Kis, Hormuz, Dofar, Soer, and Aden; Esher; Dofar; Calatu.
---- duty on, captured by pirates; their extraordinary treatment and diet in India.
Horse-stealing, Tartar laws.
Hosie, A., on Ch'eng-tu; brine-wells of Pai-yen-ching; on the Si-fan; on Caindu Lake.
Hospitals, Buddhist.
Hostelries, at Cambaluc, on the Cathay post-roads; at Kinsay.
Hot springs in Armenia, near Hormuz.
Hounds, Masters of Kaan's.
Hours, struck from Cambaluc bell-tower, at Kinsay; unlucky; canonical.
Hsi Hsia dynasty.
_Hsiang-chen, Hsiang_, wood.
Hu-chau fu (Vuju).
Hui-hui, white and black capped, two Mohammedan sects.
Hukaji (Hogachi, Cogachin), Kublai's son.
Hukwan-hien.
Hulaku Khan (Alau, Alacan), Kublai's brother, and founder of Mongol dynasty in Persia, war with Barka Khan; takes Baghdad and puts Khalif to death; the Ismailites and the Old Man.
---- his treachery, his descendants; battle with Barca; his followers.
Hullukluk, village, near Sivas.
Human fat, used for combustion in war.
---- sacrifices.
Humayun, Emperor.
Humboldt.
Hunawar (Onore, Hinaur).
Hundred Eyes, prophecy of the.
_Hundwaniy_ (ondanique), Indian steel.
Hungary, Hungarians.
Hung Hao, Chinese author.
Hun-ho (Sanghin River).
Hunting equipment and Expedition, Kublai's, Kang-hi's.
---- preserves. (_See_ also Sport.).
Hutton, Captain.
Hwa-chau.
Hwai-lu, or Hwo-lu-h'ien (Khavailu), the Birmingham of N. Shansi.
Hwai-ngan-fu (Coiganju).
Hwai River.
Hw.a.n.g-ho (Yellow River), changes in its courses; its embankments.
Hwan-ho.
Hyena.
Hyrcania, king of.
Iabadiu.
Ibn-al-Furat.
Ibn Batuta (Moorish traveller, circa A.D. 1330-1350), his account of Chinese juggling; his account of Khansa (Kinsay); of Zayton; in Sumatra; on Camphor; in Ceylon; at Kaulam; in Malabar; sees Rukh; his account of Maldives; dog-sledges; Market in Land of Darkness; on Silver Mines of Russia.
Ibn Fozlan, _see_ Fozlan.
Ichin-hien.
Ichthyophagous cattle and people.
Icon Amlac, king of Abyssinia.
Iconium (Kuniyah, Conia).
Idolatry (Buddhism) and Idolaters, in Kashmir; their decalogue; Pashai; Tangut; Kamul; Kanchau; Chingintalas; Suhchau; Etzina, their fasting days; Tartars and Cathayans; Erguiul; Egrigaia; Tenduc; Chandu; at Kublai's birthday feast; Cachanfu; Kenjanfu; Acbalec Manzi; Sindafu; Tibet; Caindu; Yachi; Carajan; Zardandan; Mien; Caugigu; Coloman; Cuiju; Cacanfu; Chinangli; Sinjumatu; Coiganju; Paukin; Tiju; Nanghin; Chinghianfu; Tanpiju; Chipangu; Chamba; Sumatra; Nicobars; Mutfili; Coilum; Eli; Malabar; Tana; Cambaet; s.e.m.e.nat; Far North.
---- Origin of, of Brahmans; of Jogis.
Idols, Tartar, Tangut; colossal; of Cathay; of Bacsi or Lamas; of Sensin; of East generally; in India.
[Greek: Ierodouloi].
Ieu, Gnostics of.
Ifat, Aufat.
Ig, Ij, or Irej, capital of the Shaw.a.n.kars.
Igba Zion, Iakba Siun, king of Abyssinia.
_Ilchi_, commissioner.
Ilchi, modern capital of Khotan.
Ilchigadai Khan.
Ilija, hot springs at.
Ilkhan, the t.i.tle.
Ilyats, nomads of Persia.
Imams of the Ismailites.
Im Thurn, Everard, on _Couvade_.
Incense, Sumatran, brown in West India; white (i.e. frankincense), in Arabia.
India, horse trade to; trade to Manzi or China from; believed to breed no horses; trade with Persia and Arabia; western limits of; islands of; division of; sundry lists of States; trade with Aden and Egypt; with Arabian ports; confusion of Ethiopia and.
India, the Greater.
---- its extent.
---- the Lesser.
---- Middle (Abyssinia).
---- remarks on this t.i.tle.
---- Maxima.
---- Tertia.
---- Superior.
---- Sea of.
