---- Maffeo, brother of Traveller, probabilities as to birth; will of; abstract from.
---- Marco, the elder son of Andrea, Uncle of the Traveller, his will.
---- Marco, the Traveller, veracity; perplexities in his biography; Ramusio"s notices, extracts from; recognition of his names of places, paralleled with Columbus; nicknamed _Millioni_; story of his capture at Curzola; writes his book in prison at Genoa; release and marriage; arms; claim to n.o.bility; supposed autograph; his birth, circ.u.mstances of; is taken to East; employed by Kublai, mentioned in Chinese Records; mission to Yun-nan; governor of Yang-chau; employed at Kan-chau, Kara Korum, Champa and Indian Seas; returns home; mentioned in his Uncle Marco"s will; commands a galley at Curzola; taken prisoner and carried to Genoa; his imprisonment there; dictates his book to Rusticiano; release and return to Venice; evidence as to story of capture; dying vindication of his book; executor to his brother Maffeo; record of exemption from munic.i.p.al penalty; gives copy of book to T. de Cepoy; marriage and daughters; lawsuit with Paulo Girardo, proceeding regarding house property; illness and last will; probable date of death; place of burial; professed portraits of; alleged wealth; estimate of him and of his book; true claims to glory; faint indications of personality; rare indications of humour; absence of scientific notions; geographical data in book; his acquisition of languages, ignorance of Chinese, deficiencies in Chinese notices; historical notices; allusions to Alexander; incredulity about his stories; contemporary recognition; by T. de Cepoy, Friar Pipino; J. d"Acqui, Giov. Villani, and P. d"Abano; notice by John of Ypres; borrowings in poem of Bauduin de Sebourc; Chaucer and; influence on geography, obstacles to its effect; character of mediaeval cosmography; Roger Bacon as geographer; Arab maps; Marino Sanudo"s map; Medicean; Carta Catalana largely based on Polo"s book; increased appreciation of Polo"s book; confusions of nomenclature; introduction of block-printing into Europe and Polo; dictates his narrative; found at Venice; his age; noticed and employed by Kublai; grows in favour, many missions; returns from one to India; escapes from the Karaunas; hears of breed of Bucephalus; recovers from illness in hill climate; hears from Zulficar about Salamander; at Kan-chau; brings home hair of yak; and head and feet of musk deer; witnesses events connected with Ahmad"s death; noticed in Chinese annals; whether he had to do with Persian scheme of paper currency in; sent by Khan into Western provinces; governor of Yang-chau; probable extent of his authority; aids in constructing engines for siege of Siang-yang; difficulties as to this statement; on number of vessels on Great Kiang; ignorant of Chinese; on greatness of Kinsay; his notes; sent to inspect amount of revenue from Kinsay; his great experience; never in islands of Sea of Chin; in kingdom of Chamba; historical anecdotes; detained five months in Sumatra, stockade party against wild people; brings Brazil seed to Venice; partakes of tree-flour (sago); takes some to Venice; in six kingdoms of Sumatra; witnesses arrest for debt in Maabar; his erroneous view of Arabian coast; Indian geography; his unequalled travels; Venetian doc.u.ments about him.
---- Marco, called Marcolino, son of Nicolo the Younger.
---- Marco, last male survivor.
---- Marco, others of this name.
---- Maroca, sister of Nicolo the Younger.
---- or Delfino, Moreta, youngest daughter.
Polo, Nicolo and Maffeo, sons of Andrea, their first journey; cross Black Sea to Soldaia; visit Volga country, etc.; go to Bokhara; join envoys to Khan"s Court; Kublai"s reception of; sent back as envoys to Pope; receive a Golden Tablet; reach Ayas; Acre; Venice; find young Marco there ---- Nicolo, Maffeo and Marco, proceed to Acre; set out for East, recalled from Ayas; set out again with Pope"s letters, etc.; reach Kublai"s Court; are welcomed; _see_ on their journey outward; their alleged service in capture of Siang-yang; Khan refuses them permission to return home; allowed to go with amba.s.sadors; receive Golden Tablets; on return; story of their arrival at Venice; scheme to a.s.sert their ident.i.ty.
---- Nicolo, his alleged second marriage and sons; probable truth as to time of; his illegitimate sons; approximate time of his death; his tomb.
---- Nicolo the Younger, cousin of traveller.
---- Stefano and Giovannino, illegitimate brothers of Traveller.
---- (?), or Trevisano (?), Fiordelisa, perhaps second wife of Nicolo Polo the Elder, and mother of Maffeo the Younger.
---- or Trevisano, Maria, last survivor of the family, doubts as to her kindred.
---- Family, its duration and end, according to Ramusio, origin; last notices of.
(For relationship of different Polos, _see_ table).
---- Family, branch of S. Geremia.
_Po-lut_ (Pa-lut), _incense_.
Polygamy, supposed effect on population.
_Pomilo_ (Pamir).
_Pompholyx_.
Ponent, or West, term applied by Polo to Kipchak, the Mongol Khanate of the Volga, _see_ Kipchak.
Pong (Mediaeval Shan State).
Poods, Russian.
Popinjays.
Population, vast, of Cathay.
Porcelain manufacture, fragments found at Kayal; Chinese.
---- sh.e.l.ls, _see_ Cowries.
Porcupines.
Pork, mention of, omitted.
_Postin_, sheep-skin coat.
Posts, post-houses and runners, in Siberia.
Po-sz" (Persia).
Potala at L"hasa.
Pottinger.
Poultry, kind of, in Coilum, in Abyssinia (guinea-fowl?).
Pound, sterling.
_Pourpre_, or _Purpura_.
P"o-yang Lake.
Pozdneiev, Professor.
Precious stones or gems, how discovered by pirates.
Prester John (Unc Can, Aung or Ung Khan), Tartar tribute to; account of; marriage relations with Chinghiz; insults Chinghiz" envoys; "these be no soldiers"; marches to meet Chinghiz; real site of battle with Chinghiz; his real fate; slain in battle; his lineage in Tenduc; and the Golden King.
Prices of horses, _see_ Horses.
Printing, imaginary connection of Polo"s name with introduction of.
Private names supposed.
Prjevalsky, Colonel N.M.
Probation of Jogis, parallel.
Prophecy regarding Bayan.
_Proques_, the word.
Prost.i.tutes; at Cambaluc, Kinsay.
Provinces, thirty-four of Kublai"s Empire.
Pseudo-Callisthenes.
Ptolemies" trained African elephants.
Ptolemy, Sarmatic Gates.
P"u-chau fu.
Pu-ch"eng.
Puer and Esmok.
Pukan Mien-w.a.n.g.
Pulad Chingsang.
Pulisanghin, River and Bridge.
Pulo Bras.
Pulo Condore (Sondur and Condur).
Pulo Gommes (Gauenispola).
Pulo Nankai, or Nasi.
Pulo We, Wai, or Wey.
Punnei-Kayal.
Puranas, the.
_Purpura_, see _Pourpre_.
Putchok.
Putu-ho, "Grape R.".
Pygmies, fact.i.tious (?).
Qal"ah Asgher, hot springs at.
Qara Ars-lan Beg, king of Kerman.
Quails in India.
Queen of Mutfili.
Quicksilver and sulphur potion.
---- as regarded by alchemists.
Quills of the Ruc, _see_ Ruc.
Quilon, Kaulam, etc., _see_ Coilum.
Qumadin (Camadi)
Rabelais.
Rabbanta, a Nestorian monk.
Radloff, Dr. W., map.
Rain.
Rainald, of Da.s.sel, Archbishop.
Rain-makers, _see_ Conjurers.
Rainy season.
Rajkot leather-work.
Rakka, Rakshasas.
Rama Kamheng, king.
Rameshwaram.
Ramnad.
Rampart of Gog and Magog.
Ramusio, Giov. Battista, _pa.s.sim_, his biographical notices of Polo; his edition of Polo.
Rana Paramita"s Woman Country.
Ranking, John.
Raonano-Rao.
Rapson, E.J.