The Travels of Marco Polo Volume II Part 127

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.