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INDEX. | Xciii |
Shinkali Siiinkala (Cranganor), lxxvii, 75 ; see Cynkali.
Shintu (India or Sind) first heard of • in China, lxvi
Ships stitched with twine, 57, 217; Indian, their insecurity, ib.; Chinese, described, 417
Shipping, vast and splendid in China 106, 124
Shonghar, a gerfalcon, ccviii
Shu, kingdom of, cxi
Shunti or Togatemur, last Mongol 507 Emperor of China, lxxv, 318, 340,
Siangyangfu, siege of, cxxxi, ccxlii Sibir, ancient city near Tobolsk, ccxxix
Sibor, clxxviii, 227
Sielediba (Ceylon), clxviii, clxxvi, meaning of name, ib., clxxix
Siemisekan (Samarkand), 192
Sihu or Western Lake at Hangeheu, cxciii, 119
Sikkah, vicissitudes of the word, cexlvii.
Sila (Japan), evi, cx
Siladitya, King of Kanauj, lxix
Silhet, the site of Ibn Batuta's Ha-bank, etc., 515 seqq.
Silk of China, xli, xlii, xliv; etymological notes about, ib. ; trade in, with the West, xlvi, lviii, clxi, clxviii ; great cheapness, 126, 480; price of, and of silk goods, 294-5 ; textures of, anciently seem to have been fine gauze, cliv; nonsense about splitting them, ib.; 'richer modern textures, 295, 486
worms, notions of Pausanias, xlv; Theophylactus, lii; introduction of into Byzantium, xlvi; extracts from Pausanias, clvii ; from Procopius, clix; from Theophanes, clx
, wild, of the Assyrian Bombyx still used, clvi
refuse used to make paper, ccxxi Sillan (Ceylon), 98
Sin xxxiii, xxxvii, exiv, ecxly, and Masin ; see Machin.
SinEe, xxxiii, xxxvii, lxxx, cxlvi, el ; boundaries of, clii
Sinaitic inscriptions, clxxiii
Sincapura (Singapore), 591
Sind, Hind, and Zinj, the three Indies,183
Sindabil, cxi, cxc
Siudabur ; see Sandabur.
Sindar Bandi Diwar (Sundara Pandi
Dewar), Lord of Ma'bar, 21819-20
Sindifu, cxi
Sindu (Indus), lxxix, clxxviii
Sing, provincial administrations of Cathay so called, 137, 265 seqq.; list of them, 267 seqq.
Singanfu, li, 148, 586 ; see Kenjan, Changgan, Khumdan.
monument of, xcii seqq.; and clxxxi seqq.
Singing men and women at the Great
Khan's Court, 143
Singuimatu, 126
Singuyli; see Cynkali.
Sinhaladwipa, clxxvi
Sinkalan, Chinkalan (Canton), 105,
417, 447 ; see Chinkalan, 478, 487,
488
Sin-ul-Sin, Sinia-ul-Sin, cix, cxiii, 417,
447, 477, 485, 487, 488
Sirikul, Lake, cxix, ccxxxii seqq., 563
Sisamina, the word, clxxviii
Sissu or Sisharn wood, ib.
Sitia, Province of, 218; probable ori-
gin of name' ib.
Sittarkent, 287
Sitting in air, 501
Siu-Simmoncota, some place on Coro-
mandel coast, 216
Siurhia, City of, lxxxiii, cxxv, ccxli
Siva Samundra, 216, 217
Siwastan (Sehwan), 404
Six•fingered folk, 379
Siyaposh Kafirs, 554
Skins, coats of, Marignolli's remarks
on, 353, 366
Slamat, mountain in Java, 391
Smuggling, punishment of, 484
Soceda, the word, ccxi, 95
Socotra, Christianity of, clxxi, 168-9,
191 ; a Nestorian Archbishopric,
cexly
Solagna, where, 159; see also William
Solangka, north of Corea, 267-8
Soldaia, 402
Soldan of Babylon, legend of, 167
Soltania (Sultana), 49 ; Archbishop
of, 189 seqq., 238, 255
Sommi, the word, 288, 292; value of,
295, 298
Sondur and Condur, civ
Soolo or Suluk Islands, 520 seq.
Sopatrus, his adventure in Ceylon,
clxxix
Sornau, a name for Siam, ci, ccxlii
Sornaquam, 465
Sounding sands, ccxliv, 156-8, 39P Spectator, reply to remarks in, 182
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