Filippi, Professor F. de, Silk industry in Ghilan.
Finn.
Fiordelisa, daughter of younger Maffeo Polo.
---- supposed to be Nicolo Polo"s second wife.
---- wife of Felice Polo.
Firando Island.
Firdus, Ismailite Castle.
Firdusi.
Fire, affected by height of Pamir Plain, regulations at Kinsay.
Fire-baptism, ascribed to Abyssinians.
Fire-_Pao_ (cannon?).
Fire-worship, or rockets, in Persia, by the Sensin in Cathay.
Firishta, the historian.
Fish miracle in Georgia, in the Caspian; and date diet; supply at Kinsay; food for cattle; stored for man and beast.
Fish-oil, used for rubbing ships.
Florin, or ducat.
Flour (Sago), trees producing.
Fluckiger, Dr.
Fog, dry.
Fo-kien, _see_ Fu-chau.
Folin (Byzantine Empire).
Fondaco.
Foot-mark on Adam"s Peak, _q.v._.
Foot-posts in Cathay.
Forg.
Formosa, Plain (Harmuza).
Forsyth, Sir T. Douglas.
Fortune, R.
Foundlings, provision for.
Four-horned sheep.
Fowls with hair.
Foxes, black.
Fozlan, Ibn.
_Fra terre_ (Interior).
Fracastoro, Jerome.
Franciscan converts, in Volga region at Yang-chau; Zayton.
Francolin (darraj of the Persians), black partridge.
Frankincense, _see_ Incense.
Frederic II., Emperor, his account of the Tartars; story of implicit obedience; his _cheetas_; his leather money; his giraffe.
French, the original language of Polo"s Book; its large diffusion in that age.
French Expedition up the Kamboja River.
Frenchmen, riding long like.
French mission and missionaries in China.
_Frere charnel_.
Frere, Sir B.
Froissart.
Fu-chau (Fo-kien, Fuju), paper-money at; wild hill people of; its ident.i.ty; language of; tooth relique at.
Fuen (Fen) ho River.
Funeral rites, Chinese, in Tangut; of the Kaans; at Kinsay.
(_See_ also Dead.).
Fungul, city of.
Furs, of the Northern Regions.
Fusang, Mexico (?).
Fuyang.
Fuzo, _see_ Fu-chau.
Gabala, Bishop of.
Gagry, maritime defile of.
Gaisue, officer of Kublai"s Mathematical Board.
_Galea.s.se_, Venetian gallery.
Galingale.
Galletti, Marco.
Galleys of the Middle Ages, war, arrangement of rowers; number of oars; dimensions; tactics in fight; toil in rowing; strength and cost of crew; staff of fleet; Joinville"s description of; customs of.
Galley-slaves not usual in Middle Ages.
Gambling, prohibited by Kublai.
Game, _see_ Sport.
Game Laws, Mongol.
Game, supplied to Court of Cambaluc.
Ganapati Kings.
Gandar, Father.
Gandhara, Buddhist name for Yun-nan.
Ganfu, port of Kinsay.
Ganja, gate of.
Gan-p"u.
Gantanpouhoa, Kublai"s son.
Gantur.
Gardenia, fruit and dyes.
Gardiner"s (misprinted Gardner"s) _Travels_.
Gardner, C.
Garmsir, Ghermseer (Cremesor), Hot Region.
Garnier, Lieut. Francis (journey to Talifu).
Garrisons, Mongol, in Cathay and Manzi, disliked by the people.
_Garuda_.
Gate of Iron, ascribed to Derbend.
Gates, of Kaan"s palace, of Cambaluc; of Somnath.
Gat-pauls, Gatopaul, Gatos-paulas.
_Gatto maimone_.
Gauenispola Island.
Gaur (_Bos Gaurus, etc._).
Gauristan.
Gavraz villages.
Gazaria.
Gedrosi.
Gelath in Imeretia, Iron Gate at.
_Geliz_, Spanish for silk dealer.
Genealogy of Polos, errors as given by Barbaro, etc., in; tabular; of House of Chinghiz.
Genoa, Polo"s captivity at.
---- and Pisa, rivalry, and wars of.
---- and Venice, rivalry and wars of.