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.
Akhaltzike (Western Georgia).
Akhtuba River.
Ak-khoja.
Aksarai, or Ghori River.
Aksu River.
Aktar.
Aktash Valley.
Alabastri.
Alacou, see Hulaku.
Aladja, striped cotton cloth.
Alamut, Castle of the Ismailites.
Alan country, Alania.
Alans, or Aas, massacre at Chang-chau of,
employed under Mongols.
Alaone, the name.
Alarm Tower, at Cambaluc,
at Kinsay.
Alatcha, cotton stuff with blue and red stripes.
Alau, see Hulaku.
Ala'uddin (Alaodin), see Old Man of the Mountain.
- - (Alawating of Mufali), an engineer in Kublai's service.
- - Khilji, Sultan of Delhi.
Albenigaras, Mt.
Al Biruni.
Alboquerque, see D'Alboquerque.
Alchemy, Kublai's.
Aleppo.
Alexander the Great, allusions to legends and romances about,
his rampart (Iron Gate);
the curtains at a banquet given by;
and the ferrum candidum;
site of his battle with Darius;
his wife Roxana;
kills a lion;
Princes claiming descent from (Zulcarniain);
his horse Bucephalus;
fixes chains on Adam's Peak;
said to have colonised Socotra;
his tower on the border of Darkness.
Alexander III., Pope.
Alexander IV., Pope.
Alexandria,
trade from India to.
Alhinde, Alfinde, Alinde, Al-hint.
'Ali and Aliites.
Alidada.
Alihaiya, Kublai's general.
Alinak.
Alligator, in Carajan,
mode of killing;
eaten;
prophecy of Bhartpur about.
Almalik.
Almanacs, Chinese (Tacuin).
Almonds.
Aloes, Socotrine.
- - wood, see Lign-aloes.
Alor, war cry.
Al-Ramni, Al-Ramin, see Sumatra.
Altai (Altay) Mountains,
the Khan's burial-place;
used for the Khingan range.
Altun-Khan, Mountain.
- - sovereign.
Amazons, fable of.
Ambergris,
how got.
Amber-rosolli.
Amda Zion, king of Abyssinia,
his wars v. Mahomedans;
not the king mentioned by Polo.
Ament, Rev.
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