By Kublai For Siege Of Siang-Yang;
Chinese And Persian Histories On;
Known To Mongols And Chinese;
The Karabugha, Or
Calabra;
the P'ao.
Milk, portable, or curd.
Milk, rite of sprinkling Mare's.
Million, use of the numeral.
Millione, Millioni, nickname
For Polo and his book.
Millioni, Corte del.
Milne.
Minao district.
Mines and Minerals, see Iron, Silver, etc.
Minever, see Menuvair.
Ming, the Chinese dynasty which ousted the Mongols, A.D. 1368,
their changes in Peking;
their paper-money;
their effeminate customs;
expeditions to India;
annals.
Mingan, Khan's Master of Hounds.
Ming-ti, Emperor.
Minjan, dialect of.
Minotto, Professor A.S.
Min River (in Fokien).
- - River (in Szech'wan).
Mint, the Khan's.
Mintsing-hien.
Mious River.
Miracle Stories,
fish in Lent;
Mountain moved;
St. Barsamo's girdles;
Holy Fire;
Stone at Samarkand;
at St. Thomas' Shrine.
Mirat.
Mire French for leech.
Mirkhond.
Mirobolans.
Miskal, a weight. (See also Saggio.).
Misri, sugar-candy.
Missionary Friars, powers conferred on,
in China in 14th century.
- - Martyrs.
Moa of New Zealand.
Modhafferians, the.
Modun Khotan ("Wood-ville").
Moghistan.
Mohammed, son of Yusuf Kelefi, founder of Shiraz.
Mohammerah.
Mohiuddin.
Mokli, the Jelair.
Molayu.
Molebar, see Malabar.
Molephatan.
Moliere, Pastorale Comique.
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,
passed 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 altitudes;
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 Massacre 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:
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