vessels,
books.
Bir-dhul, or Bujardawal, cap. of Ma'bar.
Bird-hunts.
Birdwood, Sir G.
Birhors of Chuta Nagpur.
Bir-Pandi, or Pira-Bandi.
Birthday, celebration of Kublai's.
Bishbalik (Urumtsi).
Bishop, of Male Island,
story of an Abyssinian.
Bitter bread.
---- water.
Blac, Blachia (Lac, Wallach).
_Black-bone_, Chinese name for Lolos.
Black Crane (Kara Togorue).
---- Saints, White Devils in India.
---- Sea, M. Maurum v. Nigrum.
---- Sect of Tibet.
Blacker, the more beautiful.
Blaeuw, map.
Blochmann, Professor H.
Block-books, supposed to have been introduced from China,.
Block-printing in Persia..
Blood-sucking, Tartar.
_Blous, bloies_.
Boar's tusks, huge (Hipp.).
_Boccassini_.
Bode, Baron de.
Bodhisatva Avalok.
Bodleian MS. of Polo,
list of miniatures in.
Boeach, mistake for Locac, and its supposed position.
Boemond, Prince of Antioch and Tripoli, letter of Bibar to.
Boga (Buka), a great Mongol officer, delivers Arghun.
Boghra Khan.
Bohea country.
Bohra, sect of W. India.
Boikoff, Russian Envoy.
Bokhara (Bocara).
Boleyn, Anne, her use of buckram.
Bolgana, Queen, see Bulughan.
Bolgarskoye (called also Uspenskoye).
_Bolghar, borgal, borghal_, Russia leather.
Bolghar (Bolgara), on the Volga,
ruins of;
court of.
Bolivar, Padre, S.J., his account of the Condor (_Rukh_) of Africa.
Bolor.
Bombay.
Bonaparte, Prince Roland, _Recueil des Documents de l'Epoque Mongole_.
Bonga.
Bonheur, Rosa.
Boniface VIII., Pope.
Bonin, C.E.
Bonoccio di Mestro.
Bonpos, old Tibetan Sect.
Bonus, ebony.
Bonvalot.
Book of Marco Polo,
its contents;
original language, French;
oldest Italian MS.;
"Geographic Text," in rude French;
various types of Text--
(1) "Geographic,".
(2) Pauthier's MSS.
(3) Pipino's Latin,
Preface to;
Grynaeus' Latin;
Muellers' reprint.
(4) Ramusio's Italian edition,
its peculiarities;
probable truth about it;
bases of it.
MS. and some of its peculiarities;
general view of the relations of the texts;
notice of an old Irish version;
geographical data;
how far influenced in form by Rustician;
perhaps in description of battles;
diffusion and number of MSS.;
basis of present version;
specimens of different recensions of text;
distribution of MSS.;
miniatures in;
list of MSS.;
Tabular view of the filiation of chief MSS.;
Bibliography;
titles of works cited;
Spa