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Moluccas.
Mombasa.
Momein.
Monasteries of Idolaters (Buddhists).
Money, paper.
---- values.
Mongol conquests, capture Soldaia; Bolghar; treachery and cruelty; their inroads; Bakh city; invade Balakhshan; invasion of Poland and Silesia.
Mongon Khan, _see_ Mangu.
Mongotay (Mangkutai), a Mongol officer.
Monkeys, pa.s.sed off as pygmies.
Monks, idolatrous. (_See_ Monasteries.).
Monnier, Marcel, his visit to Karakorum, on the Ch'eng-tu Suspension Bridge.
Monoceros and Maiden, legend of.
Monophysitism.
Monsoons.
Montecorvino, John, Archbishop of Cambaluc.
Monte d'Ely.
Montgomerie, Major T.G. (R.E.) (Indian Survey), on fire at great alt.i.tudes; position of Kashgar and Yarkund.
Monument at Si-ngan fu, Christian.
Moon, Mountains of the.
Moore, _Light of the Harem_.
Moplas, _see_ Mapillas.
Morgan, E. Delmar.
Mortagne, siege of.
_Morus alba_, silk-worm tree.
Moscow, Tartar Ma.s.sacre at.
Mosolin, or Muslin (Mosolini), _Mo-sze_, Arab Maucili.
Mossos, a tribe.
Mosta'sim Billah, last Abbaside Khalif of Baghdad, story of his avarice and death.
_Mostocotto_.
Mosul (Mausul).
Motapalle, _see_ Mutfili.
Motawakkil, Khalif.
Moule, Bishop G.E.
Mount, Green, in Palace grounds at Peking.
---- St Thomas.
---- D'Ely, _see_ Monte d'Ely.
Mountain, Old Man of the, _see_ Old Man of the.
---- Miracle of the.
---- Road in Shensi, extraordinary.
Mourning customs, at Hormuz; in Tangut; at Kinsay.
Mozambique Channel.
Muang, term applied in Shan countries (Laos and W. Yunnan) to fortified.
towns, as:-- Muang-Chi; Muang, or Maung Maorong; Muang Shung; Muang Yong.
Mulahidah (Mulehet, Alamut, Chinese Mulahi), epithet of Ismaelites.
Mulberry Trees.
Mul-Java.
Muller, F.W.K.
Muller, Professor Max, on _Couvade_; on stories of Buddha and St. Josafat.
Multan.
Munal pheasant (_Lopophorus impeya.n.u.s_), described by Aelian.
Mung (_Nicaea_).
Mungasht, hill fort, stronghold of the Atabegs.
Mungul, name applied to Tartars. (_See_ Mongol.).
Mungul-Temur and Mongo-Temur, _see_ Mangu-Temur.
Murad Beg, of Kunduz.
Murghab River.
Murray, Dr. J.A.H., on _Couvade_.
---- Hugh.
Murus Ussu (Brius, Upper Kiang).
Mus, Merdin (Mush, Mardin).
Musa'ud, Prince of Hormuz.
Musk, animal (Moschus).
---- earliest mention of and use in medicine.
Muslin, _see_ Mosolin.
Mutfili (Motapalle for Telingana), its diamonds; identified.
Muza.
Mynibar.
Mysore.
Mystic number, _see_ Numbers.
Nac, Nasich, Naques (Nakh), a kind of brocade.
_Nachetti_, silk stuff interwoven with gold.
_Nakhut_, gold brocade.
Nakkara (Naccara, Nacaires), the great kettledrum signalling action.
_Nakshatra_.
Nalanda.
Nan-Chao, formerly Ai-Lao, Shan dynasty in Yun-nan.
Nancouri.
Nanghin (Ngan-king).
Nangia.s.s, Mongol name of Manzi.
Nankau, archway in Pa.s.s of, with polyglot inscription.
Nanking, not named by Polo.
Nanwuli.
Naobanjan.
Naos.h.i.+rwan.
Naphtha in the Caucasian country.
---- Fire used in war by the Karaunahs.
Napier, Sir C.
Napoleon III., his researches and experiments on mediaeval engines of war.
Narikela-Dvipa.
Narin-Kaleh, fortress.
Narkandam, volcanic island.
Narsinga, King of.
Narwhal tusk, mediaeval Unicorn's Horn.
Nasich, _see_ Nac.
Nasruddin (Nescradin), officer in the Mongol Service.
Na.s.sir-uddin, Mahmud, Sultan of Delhi.
Natigay, Tartar idol.
Nava-Khanda, or Nine Divisions of Ancient India.
