oille).
Wheaten bread not eaten,
at Yachi.
White bears.
---- bone, Chinese for Lolos.
---- camels.
---- City, meaning of term among Tartars.
---- City, of Manzi frontier.
---- Devils.
---- Feast at Kublai's City.
---- Horde.
---- horses and mares,
offered to Khan.
Whittington and his cat in Persia.
Wild asses and oxen, _see_ Asses and Oxen.
William of Tripoli, Friar,
his writings.
Williams, Dr. S.W., on the Chinese year,
on elephants at Peking.
Williamson, Rev. A.
Wilson, General Sir C.
Wind, poison (Simum),
monsoons.
Wine, of the vine, Persians lax in abstaining from,
---- boiled.
---- of ancient Kapisa,
Khotan;
at Taianfu;
imported at Kinsay.
---- rice (_Samshu or darasun_),
and of wheat;
at Yachi;
spices, etc., in Caindu;
Kien-ch'ang;
Cangigu;
Coloman;
Kinsay.
---- Palm (toddy).
---- from sugar.
---- date.
---- (unspecified), at Khan's table,
not used in Ma'bar;
nor by Brahmans.
"Winter" used for "rainy season".
Wo-fo-sze, "Monastery of the lying Buddha".
Wolves in Pamir.
Women, Island of.
Women, of Kerman,
their embroidery;
mourners;
of Khorasan, their beauty;
of Badakhshan;
Kashmir;
Khotan;
Kamul, fair and wanton;
Tartar good and loyal;
Erguiul, pretty creatures;
of the town;
of Tibet, evil customs;
Caindu;
Carajan; Zardandan, _couvade_;
Anin;
Kinsay, charming;
respectful treatment of;
Kelinfu, beautiful;
Zanghibar, frightful.
Wonders performed by the Bacsi.
Wood, Lieutenant John, Indian Navy,
his elucidations of Polo in Oxus regions.
Wood-oil.
Wool, Salamander's.
Worship of Mahomet (supposed).
---- of fire,
Tartar;
Chinese.
---- of first object seen in the day.
Worshipping the tablets.
Wu-chau (Vuju).
Wukiang-hien (Vughin).
Wuesus, or Wesses, people of Russia.
Wu-ti, Emperor.
Wylie, Alexander.

_Xanadu_.
Xavier, at Socotra.
Xerxes.

Ya-chau.
Yachi (Yun-nan-fu), city.
_Yadah, Jadagari, Jadah-tash_, science and stone of weather-conjurer.
Yaik River.
Yaju, and Majuj, _see_ Gog and Magog.
Yak (dong),
their tails carried to Venice;
used in India for military decorations.
Ya'kub Beg of Kasghar.
Yakuts.
Yalung River.
Yam, or Yamb (a post-stage or post-house).
Yamgan.
Yang-chau (Yanju), city,
Marco's government there.
Yarbeg of Badakhshan.
Yarkand (Yarcan).
_Yarligh and P'aizah_.
Yasdi (Yezd).
---- silk tissue.
_Yashm_, jade.
Yasodhara, bride of Sakya Sinha.
Yavanas.
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