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Magi, the three, legend as told by Mas'udi; source of fancies about; names a.s.signed to.
Magic, of Udyana, Lamaitic, (_See_ also Sorcerers.).
Magical darkness (dry fog and dust storms).
Magnet, Mount.
Magyars.
Mahar Amlak, king of Abyssinia.
Mahavan.
Mahmud Kalhati, prince of Hormuz.
Mahmud of Ghazni.
Mahmudiah Ca.n.a.l.
Mahomed (Mahommet), his account of Gog and Magog; his Paradise; his alleged prophecy of the Mongols; his use of mangonels.
Mahomed, supposed wors.h.i.+p of idols of.
---- II., uses the old engines of war.
---- Tarahi.
---- Tughlak of Delhi, his copper token currency.
---- Shah of Malacca.
Mahomedan revolts in China.
---- conversion of Malacca.
---- conversion of states in Sumatra.
---- butchers in Kashmir.
---- butchers in Maabar.
---- king of Kayal.
---- merchants at Kayal.
---- settlements on Abyssinian coast.
Mahomedans (Saracens), in Turcomania; in and near Mausul; their universal hatred of Christians; in Tauris; in Persia; their hypocrisy about wine; at Yezd; Hormuz; Cobinan; Tonocain; Sapurgan; Taican; Badakhshan, Wakhan, etc.; Kashgar; strife with Christians in Samarkand; Yarkand; Khotan; Pein; Charchan; Lop; Tangut; Chingintalas; Kanchau; Sinju; Egrigaia; Tenduc, their half-breed progeny; in northern frontier of China, alleged origin of: their gibes at Christians; Kublai's dislike of; in Yun-nan; in Champa; in Sumatra; troops in Ceylon; pilgrims to Adam's Peak; honour St. Thomas; in Kesmacoran; in Madagascar; in Abyssinia; in Aden; outrage by; at Esher; Dufar; Calatu; Hormuz; Ahmad Sultan one.
Mailapur (Shrine of St. Thomas).
Maiman.
_Maistre_, the word.
Maitreya Buddha.
Maj.a.pahit, empire of (Java).
Majar (Menjar).
Major, R.H., on Australia.
Makdashan, _see_ Magadoxo.
Malabar, Melibar, Malibar, Manibar, fleets; products; imports, Chinese s.h.i.+ps in.
Malacca, foundation of; chronology.
Malacca, Straits of.
Malaiur, island and city.
Mal-Amir, or Aidhej.
Malasgird.
Malay Peninsula, invasion of Ceylon; chronicle; language; origin of many geographical names.
Malayo, or Tana Malayu.
Malcolm, Sir John.
Maldive Islands.
Male in Burma.
Male and Female Islands, legend widely diffused.
Malifattan.
Malik al Dhahir, king of Samudra.
---- al Mansur.
---- al Salih, king of Samudra.
---- Kafur.
Malli, the.
Malpiero, Gasparo.
Malte-Brun.
Malwa.
Mamaseni.
Mamre, tree of.
Man, barbarians.
Man, Col. Henry.
Manchu dynasty.
Mancopa.
Mandale in Burma.
Mandarin language.
Mangalai, third son of Kublai, his palace.
Mangalore.
Mangla and Nebila Islands.
Mangonels made by Polos for attack of Saianfu, etymology; account of; a barbarous lubricant for.
Mangu (Mangku, Mongu) Khan, Kublai's elder brother; his death; reign; ma.s.sacre at his funeral.
Mangu-Temur (Mungultemur).
Manjanik (Manjaniki).
---- k.u.mgha.
Manjanikis (Mangonellas). (_See_ Mangonels.).
Manji, _see_ Manzi.
Manjushri, Bodhisatva.
Manphul, Pandit.
Mansur Shah.
Mantze, Man-tzu, Mantszi, Aborigines.
Manuel, Comnenus, Emperor.
Manufactures, Kublai's.
Ma.n.u.scripts of Polo's Book.
Manzi (Facfur), king of, his flight; his charity; his effeminacy; his death; his palace at Kinsay.
(_See_ f.a.ghfur.) ---- (Mangi) province, White City of the Frontier; entrance to; conquest of; character of the people; its nine kingdoms, 1200 cities and squares; its bamboos; no sheep in; dialects; called Chin; s.h.i.+ps and merchants in India, ---- queen of, surrenders; her report of Kinsay.
Map, constructed on Polo's data, Hereford; Roger Bacon's; Marino Sanudo's; Medicean; Catalan; Fra Mauro's; Ruysch's; Mercator's; Sanson's.
Mapillas, or Moplahs.
Maps, allusions to, in Polo's book, early mediaeval; of the Arabs; in the palace at Venice.
Marabia, Maravia, Maravi.
Marah Silu.
Maramangalam, site of Kolkhoi.
Marash.
Maratha.
Mardin (Merdin).
Mare's milk, _see_ k.u.miz.
Margaritone.
Marignolli, John.
Market days.
Markets in Kinsay.
---- Squares in Kinsay.
Marks of Silver.
Marriage customs in Khotan.
---- customs in Kanchau.
---- customs of the Tartars.
