INDEX TO THE MIRABILIA OF JORDANUS AND THE COMMENTARY THEREON.

Abgarus of Edessa, 5

Aboriginal races of India, 35

Abraham;

Mussul. legend of, xi;

birthplace of, 9

Abu-Zaid-al-Hasan, see Reinaud.

Abyssinia, the Middle India of Polo, 11

See Æthiopia.

Adder, horned, 43

Æthiopia, 42, 43, 45;

Population of, 54

Afghan manners, 10

Africa, South-Eastern (India Tertia), 41

Agmatæ of Ptolemy, 44

Ahar, city of Armenia, 9

Ainslie’s Materia Medica, 13

Aladdin, 42

Alcock’s Japan, 48

Alms of Great Khan, 48

Altai mountains, 48

Alum, manufacture of, 57

Amadou, 17

Ambergris, 43

Andaman islanders, 31, 44

Andra (Telingana), 39

Andreolo Cathani, 57

Angaman, 44

Aniba, Amba (the Mango), 14

Animals of India, 12, 18, 26, 35, 36, 38

⸺ of India Tertia (S. E. Africa), 42, 43, 44

Anthropophagi, 31

Ants, Indian, of Herodotus, 29;

white, 36

Arab sailors’ yarns, xvii

Arabes, Voyages des, see Reinaud.

Arabia, the Greater, 45, 55

Aran, concerning, 50

Ararat, 3, 5

Araxes, 4, 5, 7

Archipelago, Indian, 30

⸺ Crawfurd’s Dictionary of the, 27, 28, 31

Arguri (village on Ararat), 4

Ariana, 11

Ariena (Pliny’s name for jack-fruit), 13

Arimaspian, 42

Ark, legends of the, 3, 4

Armenia the Greater, 3 et seq., 11, 53

Armenians, Schismatic, 5, 58;

their sacrifices, 52

Artocarpus, see Jack.

Asher’s Benjamin of Tudela, 22

Asia Minor, 11, 53, 58

Asses;

wild, 9;

in India, 12

Athenæum referred to, 31

Átish-gáh of Baku, 50, 51

Atlas, of India, xiii;

Keith Johnstone’s, xiv;

Steiler’s, 6

Ava, Mission to, 39

Avdall’s Trans. of Chamich’s Hist. of Armenia, 5, 7

Azerbijan, 6

Baber, Erskine’s, 54

Babylon, deserted, 49;

Sultan of (Egyptian), 46

Bacu (Baku), 50, 51, 53

Badakshan, 9

Badger, Rev. G. P., v, viii, xi, xviii, 58;

his Nestorians, 51

Baldello Boni’s ed. of Polo, xiii

Balkash, Lake, 47

Banyan trees, 17, 18, 19

Baptism of converts, 23, 24

Barahnakár, 44

Barbosa, Odoardo, xiv, xvi, 22, 33, 40

Barca and Papa (names of Jack-fruit), 13, 14

Barcarian mountains (Barchal Dagh), 6

Baroch, vi

Barrington, Sir Jonah, 33

Bartholomew, Apostle, in Armenia, 4, 5

Batigala (Batcole), 40, 41

Battas, Battaks, their cannibalism, 31

Bats, 19, 29

Batu Khan, 54

Beasts, wild, see Animals.

Beckman’s Hist. of Inventions, 57

Bed-kisht (sp. of manna), 8

Belluri (sp. of palm), 17

Benares visited by Conti, xiv;

population of, 8

Benjamin of Tudela, xv, 11, 22, 28

Bhagwán, 24

Biblioth. Hist. Vetus, vii

Birala, see Belluri.

Bird, wailing, 37;

devil, ib.;

like a kite, 36;

enormous, 42

Birds of India, 19, 28

Bisnagur, king of, 40

Black Sea, 53

Blackness of Indians, 12, 25, 26;

of Africans, 43

Blackwood’s Mag., 47

Bloqui, an Indian fruit (Jack), 13, 14

Boats stitched, 16, 53

Bodies kept long, 47

Boils, 14

Bokhara, 10

Bollandists, vii

Borassus flabelliformis, 16

Botanic Garden, Calcutta, 18;

Kandy, 20

Brahmans, 22

Brazil-wood, xiii;

history of the name, 27

Breadfruit, 13

Briggs’s Ferishta, 23

Buchanan, Dr. F., his Mysore, 17

Buddhist Triad, 25;

rites, 46

Buds, Cassia, 28

Buffaloes, 49

Burial-place of St. John, 58

Burma, 39

Burnes, Sir Alex., quoted, 9, 10, 12

Burning;

of the dead, 20, 47;

of widows, 20

⸺ mountains, 45

Cæsalpina, 27

Caga, a port of Persia, v

Cai-Colam or Kain-Kulam, xiv, 40

Cail, a city near C. Comorin, xvi, 40

Calabria, 1, 2

Calcatix (crocodile), 19

Calcutta Botanic Garden, 18

Caldea, 11, 49, 43

Calicut, xiv, xv, 40

Cambay, 6

Cambodia, xvi, 11, 33, 37, 38, 41

Camels, 12

Cananore, xiv

Canara, 32, 40

Canella selvatica, 22

Cannibals, 31

Canopus, 34

Capac, 54

Cappadocia, 11, 53

Carbuncles and dragons, 42

Cardinal’s hats used by idol pontiffs, 46, 47

Carelessness, Turkish, 58

Carnatic, Mahom. conquest of, 23

Carobs, 21

Carpini quoted, 48

Caryota Urens, 17

Caspian Sea, 7;

Hills, 6,

(and tribes) 51, 52

Cassia Fistula, 21, 22

⸺ Lignea, 22, 28

⸺ Laurus, 28

⸺ buds, ib.

Cathay, vi, 54

See China and Tartar.

Catholic rites, Pagan semblances of, 46, 47

Cats;

winged, 29;

civet, 43

Caucasus, 7;

see also Caspian.

Cayda, 54

Cemetery of Great Khans, 48

Cerastes, 43

Ceratonia Siliqua, 21

Ceylon, xii, 37;

mentioned by Jordanus, 28, 30, 41

⸺ Sir J. E. Tennent’s, iii, 13, 30

⸺ ⸺ ⸺ Natural History of, 20, 29, 36, 37, 43

Chaldees, Ur of the, 9

Chaldeia (Chaldæa), see Caldea.

Chamich’s History of Armenia, see Avdall.

Champa, see Cambodia.

Chaqui, a fruit of India (the Jack), 13

Character ascribed to the Hindus, 22

Chardin quoted, viii, 5, 7

Chengiz Khan, 47, 54

China, ships of, xiv, xv, 54;

cities of, 47;

porcelain, 48

See also Tartar and Cathay.

China Illustrata, Kircher’s, 47

Chios, Island of, 56

Chopa, 41

Choral Service of Buddhists, 46

Christendom, advantages of, enumerated by Jord., 55

Christians;

in India, vi, vii, xi, xii, 23, 55;

in Persia, viii, 8, 9;

in Armenia, 5, 6;

in Æthiopia, 46;

selfstyled in Caspian Hills, 51

Christian mysteries, Pagan semblances of, 47

Christopherus A’Costa, 14

Chronicle ascribed to Jordanus, ix

Chronology, Hindu Mythical, 25

Chulan, xv

Churches;

in India, vii, 23;

in Persia, viii, 8, 9;

in Armenia, 4, 5

⸺ The, vii, 58

Cilicia, 53

Cinnamon, 22, 27, 28

Circassians, 52

Cities of the Great Tartar, 47

Civet cat, 43

Clove trees, 31

Cobra, 19, 43

Cochin, xiv, 35

Coco-nut-palm described, 15, 16

Cockatrice, 19

Coilpatam, 40

Coir, 16

Coilon, xv, xvi, see Columbum and Quilon.

Coincidences between mediæval travellers, xvii

Colam, Coulam, see Columbum.

⸺ meaning of, xiii;

sundry places named, xiv

⸺ Pandarani, xiv, 40

Coloen, xvi, see Columbum.

Columbo in Ceylon, xii

Columbum, the see of Jordanus (Quilon), v, vi;

the Christians of, vii, viii, x;

identification of, xii-xvii;

foundation of, xiv, 29;

king of, 39, 40

Comania, 54

Comari (Comorin), xiii

Comorin, Cape, xiii, xvi, 33, 40

Conengue, v

Constantine, 5

Constantinople, 53, 57

Conti, Nicolo de’, xiv, xv, xvi, 25, 31;

division of India according to, 11

Conversion;

of Pagans and Saracens, 23, 24, 55;

of schismatics, 5, 6, 8, 9, 55

Cooley, W. D., Trans. of Panot’s Ararat, 3

Coorg, Rajas of, 40

Coquebert-Montbret (French editor), iii, iv, v, vi, vii, viii, xii, xvii

Cordiner’s Ceylon, 13

Coromandel, xiii

Corypha umbraculifera, 30

Cote-coulam, xiv

Cows, see Oxen.

Crawfurd, John, Dictionary of the Indian Archipelago, 27, 28, 31

⸺ Malay Dictionary, 22

Crimea, 54

Crocodile described, 19

Cross, Sheep sacrificed on a, 51

Crows, 19

Cubebs, 31

Curzon’s Armenia, 5

Cyncilim, 40

Cyrus (Kur) river, 7

Daghestan, 53

D’Anville, vi, xiii

Date-palms in India, 11

Daulutabad, 39

Daumghan, v

D’Avezac, M., quoted, v, viii, ix, 42, 47, 54

Day and Night, length of, 12, 34

Dead, disposal of, 20, 21, 47

⸺ Sea in Armenia (Urumia), 6

Declinations, quaint estimate of, 34

Dekkan, Mahom. conquest of, 39

Delhi, 20

Demetrius, a Franciscan martyr in India, xii

Demons in Chaldæa, 49

Deogiri, rajas of, 39

Der-bend, 53

Devil speaketh in India, 37;

bird, ib.

Dew absent, 8;

heavy, 12

Diamonds, 20

Dictionary, Macculloch’s Commercial, 27, 44, 57;

Crawfurd’s Malay, 22;

Crawfurd’s, of the Indian Archipelago, 27, 28, 31;

Smith’s, of the Bible, 4;

Smith’s, of Greek and Roman Geography, 6;

Richardson’s Persian, 17

Dioclesian’s Persecution, 5

Distances of eastern countries, 52

Dog-headed folk, 44

Dominicans, or Preaching Friars, v, vi, x, xii, 5, 6, 55

Dóms, Domra, a low caste, 21

Dragons, 5, 41

Dravidian races, 35

Dress of Hindus, 32

Drury, Capt. H., Useful Plants of India, 14, 15, 16, 17, 21, 22, 28

Dua, 54

Dubois, Abbé, quoted, 21, 35

Dumbri, see Dóm.

Dyo or Diu, x

Earthquakes, in Greece, 2;

at Ararat, 4

Eating, Asiatic habits of, 10

Echmiazin, 3, 5

Egripos, 2

Elchigaday, 54

El-Cathif, xv

Electrum, 23

Elephant, not found in Lesser India, 12;

described, 26;

story of, 29;

extensive use of in Champa, 37;

their wars, 38;

mode of capture, 38, 39;

of Ceylon, 41;

carried by the Roc, 42

El-Kât, Port of the P. Gulph, v

Elphinstone’s Hist. of India, 22, 23

Embar (Ambergris), 43

Emperor, Persian (Tartar), 6;

of Æthiopia, 42, 45, 46;

of Cathay, 46, 47, 48;

of Constantinople, 53

Empire, Persian (Tartar), 6, 52, 54;

Great Tartar (Cathay), 46, 47, 48, 53;

several Tartar, 54

Engano, legend of, 44

Ephesus, 58

Erivan, 7

Erskine’s Baber, 54

Euphrates, v, 49

Euripus, flux and reflux, 2

Exodus quoted, 57

Facetiousness of M. Polo, exceptional, 46

Fandaraina, 40

Fans, 17

Faro of Messina, 1

Female line, inheritance in, 32

Ferrier’s travels, 9

Fertility of Lesser India, 12;

of Turkey, 58

Fighting in India, 20

Fiji Islands, 32

Fire at Baku, 50, 51, 53

⸺ worshippers, 21;

castle of the, 51

Flandrina, 40

Flying foxes, 19

⸺ squirrels, 29

Food of Lesser India, 12

Footsteps, mysterious, 37

Forest tribes, see Wild.

Forks, no new invention, 10

Forster’s, George, travels, 50

Fowls, Indian, 20

Foxes in India, 29;

flying, 19

France, king of, might subdue the world, 56

Francis of Pisa, vii

Franciscan or Minor friars, v, vi, ix, x, 5, 55

Friars, see Franciscan and Dominican.

Fruits of India, 13-17

Funeral rites, Tartar, 47, 48

Gabet, Père, 47

Gallus Sonneratii, 20

Galofaro (Charybdis), 2

Gatzaria, 54

Gedrosia, 11

Geographer in Ramusio, see Sommario, 24

Gemma Marina, 43

Genoese, vi, 56, 57

Georgiana, 52, 53

Georgian schismatics, 9

Ginger, xv, 21, 27

Girasal and Chambasal, 13

God, the one recognized by Hindus, 24

Gog and Magog, wall of, 53

Gokchai, Lake, 7

Gold, in Persia, 9;

in India, 23;

Water making, 29;

dust for money, 30

Golden mountains, 45, 46

⸺ sands, 42

Golkonda, Kingdom of, 39

Gracia ab Horto, 14

Grapes, 4, 15

Greece, 2, 11, 55

Greeks, 9, 56, 58

Gregory, St., Ap. of Armenia, 5

Grueber, Father, 47

Grus Cinerea, 37

Gryphons, 42, 45

Guz (manna), 8

Hakluyt, ix, 31, 33

Hamilton’s (W.) Desc. of Hindostan, 22, 40

Hardwicke, General, 29

Harrán or Haran, 50

Hauda, 26

Haxthausen’s Transcaucasia, 4, 50, 52

Heavenly bodies, 35

Hell, Babylon called, 49

Heraclius, 7

Heretics, 46

Herodotus, xviii, 29, 31, 42

Hílí, a port of Malabar, xv

Hindus;

decent eating, 10;

blackness, 12, 25, 26;

high character of, 22;

their toleration, 24;

sacrifices, 24;

idols, ib.;

reverence for oxen, 25;

dress, 31;

inheritance, 32;

self-immolation, 32;

wars, 20;

at Baku, 50, 51

Hispaniola, 32

Honeyjack, 14

Horrebow’s Iceland, 50

Horses not used in Lesser India acc. to Jordanus, 12;

sacrifice of, 47

Hortus Malabaricus, see Rheede.

Huc, Père, 46, 47

Hulaku, vi, 6

Hunáwur, 40

Hunters, Negro, 43

Hurons, 32

Hushyárpúr, banyan at, 18

Hyemo, city of, 47

Iaca (jack-fruit), 13, 14

Ibn Batuta, travels of, iii;

mentions Columbo, xii;

Kaulam, xv;

coincidences with Jordanus, xvii;

his desc. of jack-fruit, 14;

mango, 14;

coco-palm, 15;

pepper, 28;

his name of Ceylon, 28;

mentions great ruby, 30;

his singular story of self-immolation, 33;

his mention of Maabar, 39;

of Hunáwur; of Fandaraina, 40;

of the Roc, 42;

of the Andaman stories, 44;

of the Great Khan’s funeral rites, 47;

of Chinese junks in India, 54

Ichthyophagi Troglodytes of Arabia, 45

Idols, Indian, 24, 32, 33;

processions of, 33;

sacrifices to, 24, 32;

temples of, destroyed by Saracens, 23;

temples of, in Tartary, 46

India, mediæval divisions of, 11

⸺ the Lesser, 10;

described, 11 and seq., 53

⸺ the Greater, 26 and seq., 53

⸺ First and Second, 11, 12

⸺ Middle, 11

⸺ Tertia, 11;

described, 41 & seq.

⸺ Ultra Gangem, 41

⸺ wild races of, 35

⸺ kings in, 39

⸺ islands of, 28, 30, 31, 44, 53

⸺ vessels of, 16, 53

India in the fifteenth century, Major’s, xiv, 42

See also Conti.

India rubber trees, 20

Infernal, Tribes characterized as, 35

Inheritance, singular custom of, 32

Insects, 36

Iron in India, 23

Iron-gates, the, 53

Irrigation at Tabriz, 8

Isaiah’s prophecy of Babylon, 49

Islands of India, their number, 28, 53;

Ceylon, 28, 30;

island having marvellous water and tree, 29;

of naked people, 30;

of Java, 30, 41;

of women only and men only, 44;

of dog-headed folk, 44

Ivory, 38

Iymyl, a Tartar city, see Hyemo.

Jack-fruit, 13, 14

Jacobites, 9

Jacobus, Armenian martyr, 5

Jagatai Khan, 54

Jaggeri (palm-sugar), 16

James of Padua, a Franciscan martyr, xi

Java (the Archipelago), its wonders, 30, 31, 33;

kings in, 41, 55

Jews, black, xv;

in Persia, 9

John, St., legend of, 58

⸺ Prester, 42, 45

⸺ XXII, Pope, vii, x

⸺ de Core, archbishop of Sultania, vii

Jordanus, his birthplace, iv;

dates in his life, v, vii;

letters, v, vi;

first goes to India, vi;

named bishop of Columbum, vii;

time of writing this book, viii;

Chronicle ascribed to him, ix;

his Latinity, xvii;

his coincidences with other travellers, xvii

Josephus, 4

Jude the Apostle, in Armenia, 4, 5

Jungle fowl, 20

Junks, Chinese, xv, 55;

origin of the name, 55

Kaidu Khan, 54

Kain-Kulam, xiv, 40, 41

Kambalu, 46

Karrack, v

Kars, 6

Kasias, 32

Kaulam, xv, (see Columbum).

Kayane, virgin martyr, 5

Keatinge, Col. R. H., 33

Kesmacoran of Polo, 11

Khan, Great, see Tartar.

Khârej or Khárg, see Karrack.

Khazaria, 54

Khor-virab, convent of, 5

Khounouk, v

Khilji sovereigns of Delhi, 23

Kic (for Kīr, bitumen), 10

Killing Oxen capital, 25

Kine alone used in Lesser India, 12

Kings in India;

their dress, 32;

some of them detailed, 39

⸺ 52 under Prester John, 45

⸺ The Three, 53

King, Account of Cambodia by, 38

Kinneir, Macdonald, quoted, 7, 8, 50, 53

Kipchak, 54

Kirbah (Waterskin), 49

Kirby and Spence, quoted, 36

Kircher’s China Illustrata, 47

Kite, Rufous, 36

Kulang (sp. of crane), 37

Kulam. See Columbum, etc.

⸺ Malé, xiv

Lada, 22

Lake Urumia, 6

⸺ Sevan, 7

Lakkadives, 28

Lamas, 47

Lambs, Nestorian Sacrifice of, 51

Lapis Lazuli, 9

Latinity of Jordanus, xvii

Latter Days, Mahom. notions respecting, 23

Leake’s Travels in Greece, 2

Leaves;

perennial, 18;

gigantic, 29, 30

Le Blanc, Vincent, 40

Lee, Dr. S., 14. See Ibn Batuta.

Lemons, sweet and sour, 15

Leopards, 18, 43

Liber de Ætatibus, v

Liberality of Great Tartar, 46

Linga, Lingam, 40, 41

Lingáyet sect, 39, 40

Lingua, King of Mohebar and of Columbum, 39, 41

Linschoten’s Voyages, 13, 14, 21, 22, 28

Lions, 18, 43

Locusts, 20

Lodovicus Romanus, 14

Lord, Dr. P., quoted, 12

Lories, 29

Lucknow, population of, 8

Lycia, 53

Lynx, 18

Maabar, a region of the Coromandel coast, xiii, 32, 39, 41

Maarazia, a city of India (Benares), xiv

Macculloch’s Commercial Dictionary, 27, 44, 58

Mace, 31

Mackenzie Collections, xiv

Madagascar, 32

Madras, population of referred to, 8

Magi, 53

Mahmúd of Ghazni, 23

Mahratta, 39, 41

Major’s India in the 15th century, xiv, 42

See Conti.

Malabar;

Ports of, xiv-xvi;

Chinese Trade with, xv, 54;

Kings in, 39;

Mahom. Conquest of, 23

Malayalim names of Jack-fruit, 13, 14

Mandevill, Sir John, xv;

his lies, 40

Mangalore, 11, 40

Mango, 14

Manna, 8, 10

Manners;

of Persians, 9, 10;

of Hindus, 10, 12, 20, 22;

of Tartar Empire, 47

Maragha, vi

Marogo (Maragha), v, vi

Marsden’s Sumatra, 44

Martin Zachary, Captain, 56

Martyrdoms;

of Missionaries, vi, ix, xi, 56;

Sundry in Armenia, 4, 5, 7

Mastick, 56

Masudi, vi

Media, 53

Mediterranean, Adm. Smyth’s, 2

Mekrán, 11

Melibaria of Conti (Malabar), xvi

Men only and women only, and Islands of, 44

Metals in India, 23

Mice, white, 31

Milburn’s Oriental Commerce, xiii, 22

Milk, Coco-nut, 15

Milton quoted, 17, 42

Minor Friars. See Franciscan.

Missionaries Martyred. See Martyrdoms.

Missions, Views of Jordanus on Indian, 55, 56

⸺ Papal, in Armenia, 5, 6

Mitford, 37

Mogan, Plain of, 6, 50, 53

Mohebar, 39, 41

See Maabar.

Molebar (Malabar), 40

Molephatam, 40, 41

Molepoor, 40, 41

Monarchies of South India, 39, 40, 41

Monasteries in Tartary, 46

Money, Paper, 46

Monsters at Babylon, 49

Monteith, General, quoted, 6

Mooloopetta, 40

Moorish Sea (Mediterranean), 53

Moors (for Mahomedans), 24, 40

Moosh, 8

Moslem Kings in India, 40

Mosques made out of Temples and Churches, 23

Mouat’s Andamans, Dr., 44

Mules not used in Lesser India, 12

Mul-Java, 33

Multán, 23

Muratori, ix

Murray, Hugh, his Polo, xiii, xvi, xviii

Murray’s Guide, The Medieval, xvii

Musk, 47

Mus Malabaricus, 29

Mysore, Buchanan’s, 17

Nadir Shah, 7

Naft (Naphtha), 50

See also 10

Nairs of Malabar, their law of inheritance, 32, 40

Naked Tribes, 30, 43

Nakhcheván, 4, 6

Namadus, vi

Nargil (Coco-nut), 15

Narsinga, King of, 40

Nascarini (Nazrání or Indian Christians), vii

Natchez, 32

Naxuana of Ptolemy, 4

Negroes described, 43

Negropont, 2

Nerbudda, vi, 33

Nestorians, vi, 9, 51

⸺ The, by the Rev. G. P. Badger, 51

Nicolaus Romanus, vi

Niger, Tribes on, 32

Night and Day, variation of, 34

⸺ Brightness and glory of, in India, 34

Noah, Armenian Traditions of, 3, 4

Nose, flat, a beauty among Mongols, 25

Nutmegs, 31

Nuts of India, 16

Odericus Raynaldus, vii

Odoricus of Friuli, Traveller and Saint, ix, 31, 33, 38, 40

Ogero the Dane, 40

Oil, Coco-nut, 15

Okkodai, Khan of the Tartars, 47

Onagri, 9

Orang-utang, 31

Oranges, 15

Ormi (Urumia), 5

Ormus, x, 11

Ornas. See Verna.

Orogan (error for Mogan), 6

Osbet, 54

Ossetes, 51

Ounces, 18, 43

Oxen, Hindu reverence for, 25

Oxus, 10

⸺ Wood’s, 11

Pagan Prophecies of Latin domination, 23

Pala, name of Jack-tree in Pliny, 13

Palmyra, 16

Paludanus, 13, 14

Pandarani, xiv, 40

Paper Money in Tartary, 46

Paradise, Terrestrial, 42, 43

Parmeswar, 24

Paroco, a city of India (Baroch), v, vi

Parody of Catholic rites, 47

Parrot’s Ascent of Ararat, 3, 4

Parrots, 19, 29

Parsis described, 21

Peacocks, 20

Pearl Fishery, 28, 40, 41

Pegua (?), 10

Penny Cyclopædia, quoted, 2, 6, 8, 28, 29, 43, 44, 58

Pepper, xiii;

gardens, xv;

forest, xv;

described, 27

⸺ Long, 27, 28;

not indigenous in the I. Archipelago, 31

Persecution;

of Dioclesian, 5;

of preachers lay the Saracens, x, 55, 56

Persia;

Notices of, 7 et seq., 52

See Emperor and Empire.

See also Kinneir.

Peter, a Franciscan Martyr, xii

Pheasants, 20

Pitch, Mineral, 10

Pila, Tamul name of Jack-fruit, 13

Pirates in Malabar, 40

Planets as seen in India, 34

Pliny;

western limit of India according to, 11;

his account of Jack-fruit, 13;

of the Banyan, 17;

of Cassia, 22;

of Pepper, 28

Podargus, 37

Pole-star, height of, 34

Poliars, a forest race, 35

Polo, Marco, iii, v, viii;

his Coilon, xiii, xv, xvi;

his coincidences with Jordanus, xvii;

his division of the Indies, 11;

quoted with reference to birds and beasts of India, 19;

big bats, 19;

armament of Indian troops, 20;

honesty of Brahmans, 22;

horrid heat, 22;

admiration of black skins, 25;

Indian Islands, 28;

Ceylon, 28;

great ruby, 30;

pygmies, 31;

dress of Indian kings, 32;

Maabar, 39;

king of Cail, 40;

Male and Female Islands, 44;

Andamans, 44;

bounty of the G. Khan, 46;

Paper-money, 46;

City of Kinsai, 47;

burial of G. Khan, 48;

fire of Baku, 51, 53;

division of Tartar conquests, 54

⸺ Murray’s edition of, xiii, xviii;

Baldello Boni’s, xiii

Polumbrum or Polembum, xv

Pomegranates, 15

Population;

of Tabriz, 7;

fallacious estimates of, 8;

of Eastern Countries, 11;

of Cathay, 47, 54;

of Æthiopia (?), 54

Porcelain, China, 48

Preachers wanted for India, 55

⸺ Saracen, 55

Preaching among idolaters of India, 24

⸺ Friars. See Dominicans.

Prester John, 42, 45

Priests, idolatrous, 24

Prophecies of Latin domination, 23

Ptolemy;

his Supara, vi;

stories received from Arab Sailors, xviii;

his Naxuana, 4;

his Agmatæ, 44

Pudefitania of Conti (Pudipatanam), xiv

Pulney Hills, 35

Quails, 19, 20

Quétif and Echard, v

Quilacare (Coilacaud) King of, 33

Quilon, the Columbum of Jordanus, vi, xii-xvii, 34, 39, 41

(See Columbum, Coulam, etc.)

Races, wild, 35

Rain, absence of, 8;

scarcity of, 12

Rainy season, 12

Rajmahl Forests, 18

Rakshasas, 35

Ramusio, xiv, xvi, 11, 24, 40

Rats, gigantic, 29

Recueil de Voyages et de Mémoires, i, iii, iv, ix, 3, 42, 47, 48, 54

Reg-rawán, 11

Reinaud—Relation des Voyages faits par les Arabes, etc., vi, xiv, 33

Renaudot, xiv

Rennel, xiii

Reptiles, 18, 19

Resemblances to R. Cath. rites, 24, 33, 46

Rheede’s Hortus Malabaricus, 13, 14, 17

Rhinoceros, 18

Rhipsime, Virgin Martyr, 5

Rhubarb, 47

Richardson’s Persian Diction., 17

Rice, 12

Rivers of Paradise, 42, 43

Roc, The, 42

Roch-Alum, 58

Roxburgh, quoted, 17

Rubies, great, 30

Rubruquis, William, 3, 25, 46

Rukka, 58

Russia, 54

Sacrifices;

Idol, in India, 24;

in Tartary, 46;

of sheep on a cross, 51;

suicidal, 32

Samarkand, viii

Samosata, viii

Samudra Raja, 40

Sandhills, Flowing, 10

Sap of trees for liquor, 15, 16

Sappan-wood, 27

Saracens;

i.e., Mahomedans, x, 9, 23, 41, 58;

their preachers and persecution of Christians, 55;

ravage India, 23

Saracenized Tartars, 9

Sati, 20

Sava, 53

Scala, 5

Schismatic Christians, vii, 5, 6, 8, 9, 55, 58

Scotch lady’s musquito, 29

Scott, Walter, 50

Scott-Waring, 10

Seamanship, eastern and western, 55

Sebast, Sebasteia, 6

Sefara, see Supera.

Self-immolation, stories of, 33

Semiscat, a see under Sultania, vii

Semur (?), a city of Armenia, 7

Serpents;

in India, 18, 35;

two-, three-, and five-headed, 19;

in Armenia, 4, 5, 7;

horned, and with gems, 43;

vast, in Æthiopia, 45;

in Chaldæa, 49

Sevan, Lake, 7

Séverac, birthplace of Jordanus, iv

Shaki and Barki—Arabic names for Jack-fruit, 14

Shadows, direction of, 34

Sheep sacrificed on cross, 51

Siagois (Siya-gosh, the lynx), 18

Sicily, whirlpools, etc., 1

Silk in Persia, 9

Silem, see Sylen and Ceylon.

Simon, Apostle, in Armenia, 4, 5

Sindbad the sailor, 31, 42

Sindh, 11, 12;

Reports on, 12

Singuyli, King of, 40, 41

Sister’s son inherits, 32

Sivas, 6

Slaves, funeral sacrifice of, 47

Smith and Dwight, Researches in Armenia, 3, 4, 5, 6

Smith’s Dict. of the Bible, 4

⸺ Dict. of Greek and Roman geography, 6

Smyth, Admiral, the Mediterranean, 1, 2

Soldan of Babylon (in Egypt), 46

Soldiers in India, 20

Sommario dei Regni, etc., in Ramusio, xiv, xv, 24, 40

Sparrows, 19

Sperm-whale, 44

Spices, 23, 27, 30, 31

Spiders, Wasps that kill, 35

Springs, miraculous, 4;

of pitch, 10

Squirrels, flying, 29

Stanley, Dr. Arthur P., quoted, 51

Stewart, Lt.-Col. Patrick, R.E., 50

Steiler’s Hand Atlas, 6

Stitched Vessels, 53

Stones, Pretious, 20;

in Ceylon, 30, 41;

in serpents, 43;

in the heads of dragons, 42;

in Æthiopia, 45

Sugar, Palm, 16, 17

Sultania, viii, 9

Sugar-cane, 21

Sumatra, 30, 31, 32, 44, 55

Supera, a port of India supposed near Surat, v, vi

Surat, vi

Surplice, 24

Sylen (Ceylon), or Silem, 28, 30, 41 (see Ceylon).

Sylvester, St., 5

Tabriz, v, vi, viii, 6, 7, 8, 9

Talipat-tree, 30

Tamarinds, and meaning of the word, 21

Tamerlane, viii

Tamul words, xiii, 13, 19

Tamils in Ceylon, 43

Tana, an Indian port near Bombay, vi, vii, ix

Tana, Tanan (Tanais), an ancient factory on the Sea of Azoph, viii, 53

Tapti river, vi

Tárí, Tádí, 16

Tartar, The Great, 46, 47, 48, 54

Tartars;

in Armenia, 7, 24;

different empires of, 54

Tartary, 10, 46, 53

Tauris (see Tabriz).

Telenc (Telingana), an Indian kingdom, 39, 41

Teloogoo, 29

Tennent, Sir J. E., see Ceylon.

Terrors of Babylon, 49

Thaddeus, the Apostle, 5

Thaurisium, 6 (see Tabriz).

Thebes (Greece), 2

Theistic feeling among Hindus, 24

Thibet, 47

Thomas the Apostle, Saint, x, 5, 23

⸺ a Franciscan martyr, xi

Thucydides, 2

Tigris, 49

Tipura, 32

Tiridates, K. of Armenia, 5

Toddy, process of drawing, 16, 17

Tokat, 6

Tongan (Daumghan), v

Tortoise, monster, 49

Toulouse, 47

Transoxiana, 54

Travancore, people of, 22

Treasure of the sea, 43

Trebizond, 6, 53

Triad, the Buddhist, 25

Trinity, alleged belief in the Holy, in India, 24;

in Ava, 25

Troglodytes Ichthyophagi, 45

Tsjaka (Malayalim name of Jack-fruit), 13

Turks, 56, 57, 58;

for Mahomedans, 24;

their pococurantism, 58

Turkish Saracens, 23

Turkey (in Asia), 57

Tuticorin, 40

Two-headed monsters, 49;

also see serpents.

Ultramarine, 9

Unicorn, 18, 42

Upas tree, 31

Ur of the Chaldees, 9

Ural River, 54

Urfa, 9

Urumia, Lake, 6;

city, 5

Uzbeg, 54

Variation of day and night in India, 12, 34

Vasco de Gama, 27

Venice, merchants of, in Malabar, xv

Venus seen in broad day, 34

Verna, an Eastern see, viii

Vessels of India, 16, 53;

of Cathay, xv, 54

Vincent’s Periplus of the Erythræan Sea, vi

Vines;

of Noah, 4;

in India, 15

Virgin martyrs, 5

⸺ only can take a unicorn, 43

Viverra Civetta, 43

Vows of self-immolation, 32

Wadding, Annales Minorum, v

Walckenaer, Baron, iv

War, elephants used in, 26

⸺ of elephants among themselves, 38

Warangól, 39

Wasps, remarkable, 35

Water, marvellous, 29

Wellsted’s Travels in Arabia, 45

Wheat in India, 12

Widow-burning, 20

Wild;

tribes in India, 35;

men, 43

Willows exuding manna, 8

Wilson, H. H., quoted, xiv

Wine;

not made in India, 15;

substitutes for, 15, 16

Wood’s Oxus, quoted, 11

World’s duration according to Hindus, 25

Yadu family, 39

Yemi-li (see Hyemo).

Yezidís, 51

Zachary, an Armen. Archbishop, 5

⸺ a Genoese Captain, 56

Zamorin of Calicut, 40

Zebra, 44

Zoroaster, 6