Rhinoceros (Unicorn), in Sumatra,
habits;
four Asiatic species.
---- _Tichorinus_.
Rhins, Dutreuil de.
Rhubarb, _Rheum palmatum_.
Riant, Comte.
Ricci, Matteo.
Rice.
Rice-wine,
at Yachi.
---- trade on Grand Canal.
Richard II.
Richthofen, Baron F. von,
on Fungul;
on Tanpiju.
Right and Left, ministers of the.
Rio Marabia.
_Rishis_ (Eremites) of Kashmir.
"River of China".
Roads radiating from Cambaluc.
Robbers in Persia.
Robbers' River.
Robes distributed by Kublai.
Roborovsky, Lieutenant.
Rochefort, "faire la couvade".
Rockets.
Rockhill (_Rubruck_ and _Diary of a Journey_),
on the titles Khan, Khatun, etc.;
on horn horse-shoes;
earliest mention of name Mongol in Oriental works;
Mongol storm-dispellers;
charge of cannibalism against Tibetans;
on Bonbo Lamas;
Tablets (_hu_);
mechanical contrivances at E. Court;
Mongol etiquette;
Chinese leather-money;
Mongol post-stations;
pocket-spittoons;
from Peking to Si-ngan fu;
descent of Yellow River;
road between T'ung-kwan and Si-ngan fu;
two famous Uigur Nestorians;
on the word Salar;
on the Hui-hui sects;
on the Alan;
on branch of Volga Bulgars.
Rofia palm (_sagus ruffia_).
_Roiaus dereusse_ (?).
Rome, the Sudarium at.
_Rondes_, ingenious but futile explanation of.
_Rook_, in Chess.
Rori-Bakkar, Sepoy name for Upper Sind.
Rosaries, Hindu.
Rostof and Susdal, Andrew, Grand Duke of.
Roth, H. Ling, on _couvade_.
Rouble.
Roxana, daughter of Darius, wife of Alexander.
Roze de l'Acur.
Rubies, Balas,
of Ceylon;
of Adam's Peak.
Rubruquis, or Rubruc, Friar William de.
Ruby mines in Badakhshan.
Ruc (Rukh), or Gryphon, bird called, described,
its feathers and quills;
wide diffusion and various forms of fable;
eggs of the Aepyornis;
Fra Mauro's story;
genus of that bird, condor;
discovery of bones of _Harpagornis_ in New Zealand;
Sindbad, Rabbi Benjamin, romance of Duke Ernest;
Ibn Batuta's sight of Ruc;
rook in chess;
various notices of.
Rudbar-i-Lass, Robbers' River.
---- (Reobarles), district and River.
Rudder, single, noted by Polo as peculiar,
double, used in Mediterranean.
Rudkhanah-i-Duzdi (Robbers' River).
Rudkhanah-i-Shor (Salt River).
Rudra Deva, King of Telingana.
Rudrama Devi, Queen of Telingana.
Rukh, Shah.
Rukhnuddin, Mahmud, Prince of Hormuz.
---- Masa'ud.
---- Khurshah, son of Alaodin, Prince of the Ismaelites.
Rum.
Runiz.
Ruomedam-Ahomet, King of Ho