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Citation Information
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RED SEA INDEX
RUDRA DEVA
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294n ; Mongol storm-dispellers, 31 on ; charge of cannibalism against Tibetans, 312n ; on Bönbo Lamas, 325n ; Tablets (hu), 354n ; mechanical contrivances at E. Court, 385/2; Mongol etiquette, 393n ; Chinese leather-money, 42911; Mongol post-stations, 43711; pocket-spittoons, 462n ; from Peking to Si-ngan fu, ii. 5n ; descent of Yellow River, 2312 ; road between T'ung-kwan and Si-ngan fu, 27n ; two famous Uigur Nestorians, 2811 ; on the word Salar, 29n ; on the Hui-hui sects, 3on ; on the Alans, 18oí2 ; on branch of Volga Bulgars, 48912
Rofia palm (sagus rzfa), ii. 597n
Roiaias dereusse (?), ii. 395n
Rome, the Sudarium at, i. 213
Rondes, ingenious but futile explanation of, i. 41on
Rook, in Chess, ii. 41911
Rori-Bakkar, Sepoy name for Upper Sind, i. 86n
Rosaries, Hindu, ii. 338, 347n
Rostof and Susdal, Andrew, Grand Duke of, i. 7n
Roth, H. Ling, on couvade, ii. 596/2
Rouble, ii. 48811
Roxana, daughter of Darius, wife of Alexander, i. 151, 15211, 157
Roze de l'A çur, i. 370n
Rubies, Balas, 5, i. 157, 16111 ; of Ceylon, ii. 313, 315/2; of Adam's Peak, 316/2
Rubruquis, or Rubruc, Friar William de, 15, wit, 132, i. 57n, 65n, 227n, 230n, 239n, 24212, 25311, 264n, 27811, 3o8n, 30911, 354n, 384n; 385n, 38912, 42611,
437n
Ruby mines in Badakhshan, i. 16in
Ruc (Rukh), or Gryphon, bird called, described, ii. 412-413 ; its feathers and quills, 413, 4201?, 596n-598/2; wide diffusion and various forms of fable, 415n ; eggs of the Aepyornis, 416n ; Fra Mauro's story, 41712 ; genus of that bird, condor, 41711, 42on ; discovery of bones of Harj5agornis in New Zealand, 418/2; Sindbad, Rabbi Benjamin, romance of Duke Ernest, 418/2; Ibn Batuta's sight of Ruc, 419/2; rook in chess, 419/2; various notices of, 420/2-42112
Rúdbár-i-Lass, Robbers' River, i. 114n (Reobarles), district and River, i.
97, I C9, III 12, 1 411
Rudder, single, noted by Polo as peculiar,
i. Io8 ; double, used in Mediterranean,
I1712
Rúdkhánah-i-Duzdi (Robbers' River), i.
11411
Rúdkhánah-i-Shor (Salt River), i. I i t 12
Rudra Deva, King of Telingana, ii. 362n
Red Sea, trade from India to Egypt by, ii. 438 ; described in some texts as a
river, 439n ; possible origin of mistake 93
Red sect of Lamas, i. 31512, 319n Refraction, abnormal, ii. 419/2
Reg Ruwá11, of Kabul, i. 202n of Seistán i. 202/2
Reindeer ridden, i. 269, 271n
Religion, indifference of Chinghizide Princes to, i. 14n, 34912, ii. 47712 ;
occasional power of among Chinese, i. 46012 segq.
Remission of taxation by Kúblái, i. 439 Rennell, Major James, ii. 40212 Reobarles (Rúdbár, etc.), i. 97, 109,
IIIn, I14n
Revenue of Kinsay, ii. 189, 190, 215 et segq.
Rhinoceros (Unicorn), in Sumatra, ii. 285, 29on ; habits, 29on ; four Asiatic species, 28912
Tichorinus, ii. 41912
Rhins, Dutreuil de, i. 19on, 192n, 27612 Rhubarb, Rheum palmatum, i. 2I7, 2I81?, 279n, ii. 181, 183n
Riant, Comte, ii. 593n
Ricci, Matteo, i. 3471?, 4511, 454n
Rice, ii. 33, 56, 85, 115, 117, 123, 174,
202, 292, 300, 313, 342, 354, 360, 401,
404, 423, 431
Rice-wine, i. 441n ; at Yachi, ii. 66
trade on Grand Canal, ii. 174
Richard II., i. 42n
Richthofen, Baron F. von, i. Io6n2, 19812, 21812, 295/2, ii. 14n-16n, 19n, 2311, 26n, 27n, 29n, 3212, 34/2, 35n, 3822, 4on, 4212, 45n, 48n, 57n, 6on, 671?, Bon; on Fungul, 12911; on Tanpiju, 220n
Right and Left, ministers of the, i. 432n Rio Marabia, ii. 387n
Rishis (Eremites) of Kashmir, i. 166, 169/2
6 ` River of China," ii. 222n, 243/2
Roads radiating from Cambaluc, i. 433 Robbers in Persia, i. 84, 87n, 98, 99,
IOIn
Robbers' River, i. 114n
Robes distributed by Kúblái, i. 387, 38812,
394
Roborovsky, Lieutenant, i. 18812 Rochefort, " faire la couvade," ii. 9411
Rockets, i. 342n
Rockhill (Ruhruck and Diary of a
Journey), i. 511, Sn, 911, 277n, 27911,
28211, 283n, 29411, 29572, 3o6n, 30812-
31Q?2, 31211, 31912, 321n, 324n, 32512, 35311, 35411, 38412, 3851?, 38911; 393n; 429n, 4371?, ii. 491 ; on the titles Khan, Khatun, etc., 10 ; on horn horse-shoes, i. 177n ; earliest mention of name Mongol in Oriental works,
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