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0672 The Book of Ser Marco Polo : vol.2
The Book of Ser Marco Polo : vol.2 / Page 672 (Color Image)

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*Adulis*, ii. 432*n* ; inscription of, 434*n*
Aegae, Ayas on the site of ancient,
i. 16*n*
Aepyornis and its eggs, ii. 416*n*-417*n*
Aetius, his prescription of musk, i. 279*n*,
ii. 302*n* ; of camphor, 302*n*
Afghans, their use of the fat-tailed sheep,
i. 100*n*
Africa, Sea surrounding to the South,
ii. 415*n*
Agassiz, Professor, i. 100*n*
Agathocles, Coins of, i. 163*n*
*'Αγαθοῦ δαίμονος*, island, ii. 310*n*
Agha Ali Sháh, present representative of
the Old Man of the Mountain, i. 148*n*
—— Khan Meheláti, late representative
of the Old Man, i. 147*n*
Aghrukji or Ukuruji, Kúbláí's son, i.
361*n*
Agricola, Governor of Cappadocia, etc.,
i. 45*n*
Aguil, Mongol general, ii. 136, 138*n*
Ahmad (Achmach), the Bailo of Fenaket,
his power, oppressions, death, etc.,
i. 415 *seqq.*, 421*n*
—— Sultan, Khan of Persia, *see* Acomat
Ahwaz, province, i. 65*n*
Aidhab, ii. 439*n*
Aidhej, or Mal-Amir, i. 85*n*
Aijaruc, Kaidu's daughter, ii. 463 ; her
strength and prowess, 463 *seqq.* ; her
name, 463
Aikah Nowin, Engineer in Chief of
Chinghiz, ii. 168*n*
Ai-lao (afterwards Nan-chao), ancient
name of the Shans, ii. 79*n*
*Ain Akbari* (*Ayeen Akbery*), i. 65*n*, 99*n*,
101*n*, 103*n*, 409*n*, ii. 116*n*
Ajmir, ii. 426*n*
Akbar and Kúbláí, a parallel, i. 349*n*
Ak Bulák salt mines, i. 154*n*
Akhaltziké (Western Georgia), i. 58*n*
Akhtuba River, i. 5*n*, 6*n*
Ak-khoja, ii. 470*n*
Aksarai, or Ghori River, i. 152*n*
Aksu River, i. 172*n*, 175*n*
Aktár, i. 96*n*
Aktásh valley, i. 172*n*, 175*n*
*Alabastri*, ii. 432*n*
Alacou, *see* Huláku
*Aladja*, striped cotton cloth, i. 44*n*
Alamút, Castle of the Ismaïlites, i. 141*n*,
142*n*, 145*n*, 148*n*
Alan country, Alania, i. 57*n*, ii. 490, 491*n*
Alans, or Aas, massacre at Chang-chau
of, ii. 178; employed under Mongols,
179*n*
Alaone, the name, 56
Alarm Tower, at Cambaluc, i. 375,
378*n* ; at Kinsay, ii. 189
*Alacha*, cotton stuff with blue and red
stripes, i. 190*n*
Alau, *see* Huláku

Ala'addin (Alaodin), *see* Old Man of the
Mountain
—— (Alawating of Mufali), an engineer
in Kúbláí's service, ii. 167*n*
—— Khilji, Sultan of Delhi, i. 104*n*,
ii. 163*n*, 169*n*, 333*n*, 398*n* 400*n*
Albenigaras, Mt., ii. 362*n*
Al Biruni, i. 104*n*, 174*n*, ii. 400*n*
Albuquerque, *see* D'Alboquerque.
Alchemy, Kúbláí's, ii. 423
Aleppo, i. 23*n*
Alexander the Great, allusions to legends
and romances about, *113*, i. 14*n*,
129*n*-133*n*, ii. 322*n*, 485*n*; his ram-
part (Iron Gate), i. 50*n*,53*n*, 56*n*, 57*n*;
the curtains at a banquet given by,
66*n*; and the *ferrum candidum*,
93*n*; site of his battle with Darius,
128, 138*n*; his wife Roxana, 151;
kills a lion, 152*n*; Princes claiming
descent from (Zulcarniain), 157,
160*n*; his horse Bucephalus, 158;
fixes chains on Adam's Peak, ii. 322*n*;
said to have colonised Socotra, 409*n*;
his tower on the border of Darkness,
485*n*
Alexander III., Pope, i. 231*n*
Alexander IV., Pope, i. 8*n*
Alexandria, 9, ii. 235 ; trade from India
to, 390, 438
*Alkhinde, Alfinde, Alinde, Al-hint*, i. 93*n*
'Ali and Aliites, i. 140*n*-141*n*
Alidada, i. 452*n*
Alihaiya, Kúbláí's general, ii. 167*n*
Alinak, ii. 474*n*
Alligator, in Carajan, ii. 76, 81*n* ; mode
of killing, 77 ; eaten, 78, 81*n* ; pro-
phecy of Bhartpúr about, 149*n*
Almalik, ii. 462*n*
Almanacs, Chinese (Tacuin), i. 447, 448*n*
Almonds, i. 153, 155*n*
Aloes, Socotrine, ii. 409*n*
—— wood, *see* Lign-aloes
*Alor*, war cry, *43*
Al-Ramni, Al-Ramin, *see* Sumatra
Altai (Altay) Mountains, i. 212, 215*n* ;
the Khan's burial-place, 246, 269 ;
used for the Khingan range, 247*n*,
306*n*
Altun-Khan, Mountain, i. 247*n*
—— sovereign, ii. 19*n*
Amazons, fable of, ii. 405*n*
Ambergris, ii. 308*n*, 406, 411, 423,
424*n* ; how got, 408*n*
*Amber-rosolli*, i. 142*n*
Amda Zion, king of Abyssinia, his wars
with Mahometans, ii. 435*n* *seqq* ; not the
king mentioned by Polo, 436*n*
Ament, Rev. W. S., i. 361*n*, 421*n*,
ii. 6, 11, 12
*Ameri*, a kind of Brazil wood, ii. 301*n*,
380*n*
Amhara, ii. 436*n*