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---- (posthumous) amongst Tartars.
---- laxities of different peoples.
---- laxities in Thibet.
Mar Sarghis.
Marsden's edition of Polo.
Martin, Dr. Ernest, of French Legation at Pekin.
Martini, his _Atlas Sinensis_; his account of Kinsay.
Martyrs, Franciscan.
_Masalak-al-Absar_.
Mashhad (Meshed), or Varsach River.
Mas.h.i.+z.
Maskat.
Mastiff Dogs, Keepers of the.
Mastiffs of Tibet, _see_ Dogs.
Mastodon, bogged.
Mas'ud II., Ghiath ed-din-Seljuk dynasty.
Mas'udi.
Masulipatam.
Matchlocks, manufacture at Kerman, at Taianfu.
Ma-t'eu (Matu).
Mati Dhivaja, _see_ Bashpah Lama.
Mat.i.tanana.
Mat.i.tyna (Martinique).
Matzner, Eduard.
Maundevile, Sir John (John a Beard), on lying in water; Cloths of Tartary; Trees of the Sun; Dry Tree; his Book of Travels; English version; his tomb.
Maung Maorong, or Pong, Shan kingdom.
Mauro, Fra, his map.
Mausul (Mosul), kingdom of.
_Mauvenu_ (Malvennez), the phrase.
Mayers, W.F.
Mayhew, A.L., on _Couvade_.
Mazanderan, province.
_Mecchino_, Ginger.
Medressehs at Sivas.
Mekhitar.
Mekong River (Lan-tsang kiang).
Mekran, often reckoned part of India.
Mekranis.
Melchior, one of the Magi.
Melibar, _see_ Malabar.
Melic, the t.i.tle.
Melons, dried, of s.h.i.+brgan.
Menangkabau.
Mendoza.
Menezes, Duarte.
Mengki, envoy to Java.
Menjar (Majar?).
Menuvair and Grosvair.
Merghuz Boiruk Khan.
Merkit (Mecrit, Mescript), a Tartar tribe.
Mes.h.i.+d (more correctly Mashhad).
Messengers, Royal Mongol.
Mexico.
Meyer, Paul, _Alexandre le Grand_.
Miafarakain.
Miau-tzu.
Mien, Amien, Ava (Burma), king of, his battle with Tartars; City of; its gold and silver towers; how it was conquered; communications and war with Mongols; Chinese notices.
Mikado.
Military engines of the Middle Ages, dissertation on; two cla.s.ses; _Trebuchets_; Balista; shot used, carrion, live men, bags of gold; _Mangonel_; Napoleon's experiments with heavy shot; size and accuracy; length of range (Sanudo on); effect of Mangonel on Saracens; procured by Kublai for siege of Siang-yang; Chinese and Persian histories on; known to Mongols and Chinese; the _Karabugha_, or _Calabra_; the _P'ao_.
Milk, portable, or curd.
Milk, rite of sprinkling Mare's.
Million, use of the numeral.
Millione, Millioni, nickname for Polo and his book.
Millioni, Corte del.
Milne.
Minao district.
Mines and Minerals, _see_ Iron, Silver, etc.
Minever, _see_ Menuvair.
Ming, the Chinese dynasty which ousted the Mongols, A.D. 1368, their changes in Peking; their paper-money; their effeminate customs; expeditions to India; annals.
Mingan, Khan's Master of Hounds.
Ming-ti, Emperor.
Minjan, dialect of.
Minotto, Professor A.S.
Min River (in Fokien).
---- River (in Szech'wan).
Mint, the Khan's.
Mintsing-hien.
Mious River.
Miracle Stories, fish in Lent; Mountain moved; St. Barsamo's girdles; Holy Fire; Stone at Samarkand; at St. Thomas' Shrine.
Mirat.
_Mire_ French for leech.
Mirkhond.
Mirobolans.
_Miskal_, a weight. (_See_ also Saggio.).
_Misri_, sugar-candy.
Missionary Friars, powers conferred on, in China in 14th century.
---- Martyrs.
Moa of New Zealand.
Modhafferians, the.
Modun Khotan ("Wood-ville").
Moghistan.
Mohammed, son of Yusuf Kelefi, founder of s.h.i.+raz.
Mohammerah.
Mohiuddin.
Mokli, the Jelair.
Molayu.
Molebar, _see_ Malabar.
Molephatan.
Moliere, _Pastorale Comique_.
