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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, ma.s.sacre 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. W.S.
_Ameri_, a kind of Brazil wood.
Amhara.
Amien, Mien (Burma).
Amita Buddha.
Ammia.n.u.s Marcellinus.
Amoy, harbour; languages.
_Amphora_, _Anfora_.
Amu, Aniu, _see_ Anin.
_Amuki_, devoted comrades of the king.
_Anamis_ (Minao) River.
Ananda, Kublai's grandson.
Anar.
Anaurahta, king of Burma.
Ancestor Wors.h.i.+p.
Anchors, Wooden.
_Andaine_, _andena_, _andanic.u.m_, _see_ Ondanique.
Andaman (Angamanain) island, described; people; form of the word.
_Andan_, _andun_, Wotiak for steel.
Andragiri.
Andreas, king of Abyssinia.
Andrew, Bishop of Zayton.
---- Grand Duke of Rostof and Susdal.
_Andromeda ovalifolia_, poisonous.
Angamanain, _see_ Andaman.
Angan, or Hamjam.
_'Angka_, gryphon, _see_ Ruc.
Angkor, ruins of.
Ani in Armenia.
Animal Patterns, _see_ Patterns.
Anin, province.
Annals of the Indo-Chinese States.
'An-nam, or Tong-king.
Anselmo, Friar.
_Anthropoides Virgo_, the demoiselle.
Antioch.
Antongil Bay, Madagascar.
Aotonomoff, Spa.s.ski, his ascent of Ararat.
_Apostoille_, word used for Pope.
Apples of Paradise (Konars).
Apricots.
_'Apuhota_ (Kapukada?).
Apushka (Apusca), Tartar envoy from Persia.
Arababni.
Arab geography.
---- colonies in Madagascar.
---- horses, early literary recognition of.
trade in, _see_ Horses.
---- merchants, in Southern India.
---- Seamen's Traditions about Java.
Arabi (Arabs).
