Filippi, Professor F. de, Silk industry in Ghilan.

Finn.

Fiordelisa, daughter of younger Maffeo Polo.

---- supposed to be Nicolo Polo's second wife.

---- wife of Felice Polo.

Firando Island.

Firdus, Ismailite Castle.

Firdusi.

Fire, affected by height of Pamir Plain, regulations at Kinsay.

Fire-baptism, ascribed to Abyssinians.

Fire-_Pao_ (cannon?).

Fire-worship, or rockets, in Persia, by the Sensin in Cathay.

Firishta, the historian.

Fish miracle in Georgia, in the Caspian; and date diet; supply at Kinsay; food for cattle; stored for man and beast.

Fish-oil, used for rubbing ships.

Florin, or ducat.

Flour (Sago), trees producing.

Fluckiger, Dr.

Fog, dry.

Fo-kien, _see_ Fu-chau.

Folin (Byzantine Empire).

Fondaco.

Foot-mark on Adam's Peak, _q.v._.

Foot-posts in Cathay.

Forg.

Formosa, Plain (Harmuza).

Forsyth, Sir T. Douglas.

Fortune, R.

Foundlings, provision for.

Four-horned sheep.

Fowls with hair.

Foxes, black.

Fozlan, Ibn.

_Fra terre_ (Interior).

Fracastoro, Jerome.

Franciscan converts, in Volga region at Yang-chau; Zayton.

Francolin (darraj of the Persians), black partridge.

Frankincense, _see_ Incense.

Frederic II., Emperor, his account of the Tartars; story of implicit obedience; his _cheetas_; his leather money; his giraffe.

French, the original language of Polo's Book; its large diffusion in that age.

French Expedition up the Kamboja River.

Frenchmen, riding long like.

French mission and missionaries in China.

_Frere charnel_.

Frere, Sir B.

Froissart.

Fu-chau (Fo-kien, Fuju), paper-money at; wild hill people of; its ident.i.ty; language of; tooth relique at.

Fuen (Fen) ho River.

Funeral rites, Chinese, in Tangut; of the Kaans; at Kinsay.

(_See_ also Dead.).

Fungul, city of.

Furs, of the Northern Regions.

Fusang, Mexico (?).

Fuyang.

Fuzo, _see_ Fu-chau.

Gabala, Bishop of.

Gagry, maritime defile of.

Gaisue, officer of Kublai's Mathematical Board.

_Galea.s.se_, Venetian gallery.

Galingale.

Galletti, Marco.

Galleys of the Middle Ages, war, arrangement of rowers; number of oars; dimensions; tactics in fight; toil in rowing; strength and cost of crew; staff of fleet; Joinville's description of; customs of.

Galley-slaves not usual in Middle Ages.

Gambling, prohibited by Kublai.

Game, _see_ Sport.

Game Laws, Mongol.

Game, supplied to Court of Cambaluc.

Ganapati Kings.

Gandar, Father.

Gandhara, Buddhist name for Yun-nan.

Ganfu, port of Kinsay.

Ganja, gate of.

Gan-p'u.

Gantanpouhoa, Kublai's son.

Gantur.

Gardenia, fruit and dyes.

Gardiner's (misprinted Gardner's) _Travels_.

Gardner, C.

Garmsir, Ghermseer (Cremesor), Hot Region.

Garnier, Lieut. Francis (journey to Talifu).

Garrisons, Mongol, in Cathay and Manzi, disliked by the people.

_Garuda_.

Gate of Iron, ascribed to Derbend.

Gates, of Kaan's palace, of Cambaluc; of Somnath.

Gat-pauls, Gatopaul, Gatos-paulas.

_Gatto maimone_.

Gauenispola Island.

Gaur (_Bos Gaurus, etc._).

Gauristan.

Gavraz villages.

Gazaria.

Gedrosi.

Gelath in Imeretia, Iron Gate at.

_Geliz_, Spanish for silk dealer.

Genealogy of Polos, errors as given by Barbaro, etc., in; tabular; of House of Chinghiz.

Genoa, Polo's captivity at.

---- and Pisa, rivalry, and wars of.

---- and Venice, rivalry and wars of.