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Notes on Marco Polo : vol.3 |
96 INDEX
seems to be an arbitrary addition.
See COTTON, p. 505.
Fan Wên-hu : *Ataquai took over the 300 seajunks which were at the disposal of Fan Wên-hu. See ABACAN, p. 3.
Fan Wên-hu : he played a prominent part in the expeditions against Japan. Son. in-law of the Sung general Lii Wên-tê, he fought with the Sung against the Mongols during the siège of Hsiang-yang.
See VONSAMCIM, p. 871. fanam : for pana in Anglo-Indian. See COWRIES, p. 563.
R Fanchân Nâùr » : corrupt reading for Rasidu-'d-Din's Cxayannâwùr.
See CIAGANNOR, p. 247.
Fang-shan : a location of the Ch'ilien Valley in this district is out of the question.
See CINGHIS, p. 362. fang-tsou : « letting run » (Chokêng lu).
See CUIUCCI, p. 572.
Fang-yii chip : (of Chu Mu) the text on so-lo cited in the Pên-ts'ao kang mu as from it comes from the Shêng-ch'ao hun-i fang-yü shêng-lan.
See COTTON, p. 477.
fanon : for paria in the French settlements in India.
See COWRIES, p. 563. FANSUR.
The « kingdom » of « Fan-sur », centre of production of the camphor called « fansuri » is the region of Baros on the southwestern coast of Sumatra.
The older name is that of Barns (> modern Baros).
The other name, Fansur, appears first in Arabic texts, from the middle of the 9th cent.
Pelliot considers as identical with Famür Chinese transscriptions of the 13th-15th cent. beginning with ap.
Our word « camphor » is derived from Arabic kafür.
In is notice on Borneo, Chao Ju-kua enumerates four kinds of camphor.
Polo speaks of camphor produced in Fu-chien between
Fu-chou and Ch'üan-chou. This
has nothing to do with Baros
camphor.
See p. 661 to 670.
fansuri » : the name of the cam-
phor produced in the « King-
dom » of « Fansur ».
See FANSUR, p. 661.
Fanâûr : an arabicized form, used
by Polo, of Fansur.
See FANSUR, p. 662.
faniüri : the best camphor, which
came from Fan§ür.
See FANSUR, p. 663.
FAR.
This must be the French form used by Polo, since it is in F and Z.
It is, according to Polo,
the name of a mountain at the entrance of the Black Sea on the Western side.
There was in Constan-
tinople a Pharos, and Pelliot believes this to be the place meant by
Polo. But this makes
Polo's « mountain » hardly more than a mound.
See p. 670-671.
Far : according to Polo, the name of a moutain at the entrance of the Black Sea, on the western side.
See FAR, p. 670.
Farangi » falconers, Frank falconers : in Palladino, for explaning po-lan-hsi.
See BULARGUCI, p. 113. farfor : Russ. comes from Osmanli farfuru, « Chinese », « porcelain ».
See CIN, p. 278.
farfor : Russian form from fayfuri,
Pers. > farfuru, farfuri, Turk.
See FACFUR, p. 656. farfün : firkün.
See FANSUR, p. 670.
farfuru : Osmanli for « Chinese » and « porcelain » altered from Pers. fayfüri.
See CIN, p. 278.
Faro » : restoration of « Far » by Yule and Benedetto. See FAR, p. 670.
Faxis » : misreading of Sussis by Le Long.
See DRY(LONE) TREE, p. 635. fài : Siamese, « cotton ».
See COTTON, p. 436.
fäi : Lolo, « 0.01 ounce » in Vial (Tsuan ya : t'a fên).
See COWRIES, p. 551.
fei : SIi dialect, 0.01 of a tael, < Ch. fên; also used for 0.01 of a « string ».
See COWRIES, p. 551.
Fanar-qapusi : « Gate of the Lantern », also called « Portha Phani », « Porta del Pharo » and TozroOeata Toû pav&pc. Located quite inside the Golden Horn and can't come into consideration.
See FAR, p. 671.
fei : (*b'iwai) this is not the value of the first character of Fushê; it renders ve or vai rather than vi.
See COTAN, p. 421.
fei-she : said to render Vija = Vijaya, and to be a more accurate
rendering than Yü-ch'ih.
See COTAN, p. 420.
« Female » island : according to Polo, it was located 500 miles south of Kesmacoran.
See FEMELES (ISLAND OF WOMEN), p. 671.
FEMELES (ISLAND OF WOMEN). There were several Kingdoms of Women.
The « Kingdom of Women » to the north-west of China.
The « Kingdom of Women » to the north-east of China.
The « Kingdoms of Women » to the north-east and to the north-west of Tibet.
The Indo-Chinese « Kingdoms of Women ».
The « Kingdom of Women » in Indonesia.
See p. 671-725.
fên hsing-shêng : « detached moving Secretariat »; the hsing-shêng of Chang-chou was perhaps only that.
See ÇAITON, p. 589.
fên-lung : Ch., « funerary mounds »; according to the Ts'ao-mu tzü (1378), the Mongols have no funerary mounds.
See CINGHIS, p. 333, 334. Fêng-chia-i : a Nan-chao prince who founded Chih-tung in 764 or 765.
See IACI, p. 745.
Fêng-hsiang : in the second half of the 13th cent., seat of the lien fang-ssü of the « region »
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