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The Pulse of Asia : vol.1 |
INDEX | 405 |
of changes of climate in, 285-293; minor lakes of, 262; old strands of, 249, 253; old bed of, 249, 251, 254; size of, 286.
Loss of water in streams, 101.
Low stand of Caspian Sea, 341. Lowell, P., cited, 6.
Lukchun, town of Turfan, 301; Wang of, 303, 304.
Lulan, ruins, 255, 262, 265, 266, 268, 272, 280, 283, 284, 286, 287; ancient routes through, 272, 273; early notices of, 269.
Lung-shong, or Dragon Town, 287. Luxuries, 243; of Chantos, 235.
Macartney, G., cited, 269.
Makran, part of Persia, 316. Malakalagan, Chanto village, 174, 179, 194.
Malcolm, J., cited, 319.
Malcolm, N., cited, 363.
Man, dependence of, upon topography, 103; dependence of, upon vegetation, 93, 100, 102, 103; possible Asiatic origin of, 103.
Mandarins, 154.
Mangishlak, shore of Caspian Sea, 347.
" Mani" stones in Ladakh, 58. Manufactures, possible in Lop basin, 237.
Manure from ruins, 164.
Manuscripts at Lulan, 269 ; at Turfan, 312.
Manych, old outlet of Caspian, 334.
Maps, of Caspian Sea in Middle Ages, 349; of Chinese, 284, 287; of Istakhri, 342; of Lopliks, 246.
Marco Polo, cited, 191, 209, 239, 240, 242, 387.
Marginal. lakes of Tarim River, 289. Marino Sanuto, cited, 344.
Market women of Kashmir, 29. Marmots, 109.
Marriage, among Chantos, 231; customs at Keriya, 387; games among Khirghiz, 125.
Marsh of Lop-Nor, 286, 288. Massacres, 323, 374.
Matayan, Himalayan village, 49, 51. Matterhorn, 91.
Maulbeck, Ladakhi village, 56. Maximum flood, time of, 233. Mazanderan, Persian province, 319;
sea of, see Caspian.
Mazinan, Persian village, 327. Mealing-stones, 204.
Meals among Chantos, 145.
Meat, cost of, in Lop basin, 137;
as food of Khirghiz, 119, 120. Mecca, 84, 250; pilgrims from, 88;
sanctity of residents in, 168. Mediaeval prosperity of Turfan, 312. Mediterranean Sea compared to Lop
basin, 98, 99.
Melons, 169; dried, 301. Melon-field, ancient, 174. Melon-garden, 228.
Menander, cited, 333, 341.
Mental qualities and environment, 127.
Merchants, Indian, in Khotan, 153; of Kashmir, 30; of Keriya, 191. Merdeck, ruins, 287.
Merv, former water supply of, 339. Mesas of Lop, 253, 254, 259, 262. Meshed, city, 327.
Meteorological data as to changes of climate, 13.
Middle Ages, Caspian Sea during, 341-349; in Europe, 384; Lop-Nor during, 287.
Migration, waves of, 199, 219. Migrations, of birds, 80; of Chantos,
149; of Khirghiz, 110, 112-117;
of Mongols, 313.
Migrations, from Central Asia, 383; direction of, 360; due to Bruckner cycles, 373; due to discontent, 362; due to changes of climate, Son Kul, 353, Tibet, 312, Turfan, 313, all Central Asia, 357.
Milk diet, 118, 120.
Milk, sour, 137, 150, 151.
Millet, 268.
Millstones in ruins, 214.
Miners in Asia versus America, 196. Mining methods at Sorgak, 197. Miracles, 166.
Miran, ruins, 243-246, 281.
Miran River, 243.
Mire in desert, 239, 252, 262. Mirza Haidar, cited, 193. Misconduct of school-children, 363.
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