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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 Doc.u.ments 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; Mullers' 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; t.i.tles of works cited; Spanish edition.
Bore in Hang-chau Estuary.
_Borgal, see Bolghar_.
Bormans, Stanislas.
Born, Bertram de.
Borneo, camphor, _see_ Camphor.
---- tailed men of.
Boro Bodor, Buddhist Monument, Java.
Borrak, Amir, Prince of Kerman (Kutlugh Sultan?).
---- Khan of Chaghatai, _see_ Barac.
Borus, the.
Bostam.
_Boswellia thurifera, serrata; Carterii; Bhauda-jiana; papyrifera; Frereana; glabra_.
Bouqueran, _see_ Buckram.
Bourne, F.S.A.
Boxwood forests in Georgia.
_Bozzi_.
Bra, the word.
Bracelets, in Anin.
Bragadino, Marco, husband of Marco Polo's daughter, Fantina.
---- Pietro.
Brahmanical thread.
Brahmans (Abraiaman), fish-charmers to the pearl fishery; their character and virtues; their king; their omens; longevity; _Chughi_; Palladian legend of.
Brahma's temple, Hang-chau.
Brahuis.
Brakhimof, early capital of Bulgaria.
Brambanan, ruins at.
Bran (Tibetan _tsamba_), parched barley.
Brazil wood, in Locac, in Sumatra; manner of growth; in Ceylon; in Coilum (_Coilumin_); different kinds; vicissitudes of the word; its use prohibited by Painters' Guild.
Bread, bitter.
Brephung monastery.
_Bretesche_.
Bretschneider, Dr. Emil (_Medical Researches_), ruins of Bolghar, the Uighur character; Caucasian Wall; use of muslin in Samarkand; on _nakh_ and _nachetti_; Hulaku's expedition to West Asia; an extract from the _Yuan Si_; Badakhshan; Kashgar; Shachau; Kamul; Chingintalas; the _Stipa inebrians_; the Utiken Uigurs; Erdenidso Monastery; Belasagun; death of Chinghiz; _tung lo_ or _k.u.miz_; Kublai's death; Peking; _verniques_; clepsydra; the Bularguchi; Achmath's biography; paper-money; post stations; Chinese intoxicating drinks; regulations for time of dearth; Lu-Ku-K'iao Bridge; introduction of plants from Asia into China; _morus alba_; Tibet; bamboo explosions; the Si-fans; Cara-jang and Chagan-jang; Nasr-uddin; the Alans; rhubarb in Tangut; Polo's "large pears"; on galangal; on sugar; on Zayton; on wood-oil; on ostrich; on Si-la-ni; on frankincense; on Magyars; on Mongol invasion of Poland and Silesia.
Brichu (Brius, the Upper Kiang).
Bridges of Pulisanghin, Sindafu (Ch'engtu); Suchau; Kinsay; Kien-ning fu; Fuchau; Zayton, or Chinchau.
Brine-wells, _see_ Salt.
Brius River (Kin-sha Kiang, Gold River).
Brown, G.G.
---- Sir Thomas, on Polo.
Bruce's Abyssinian Chronology.
Brunetto Latini's Book, _Li Tresor_.
Brunhilda.
Bruun, Professor Ph., of Odessa.
Bucephala, of Alexander.
Bucephalus, breed of.
Buckrams, of Arzinga, described; etymology; at Mardin; in Tibet; at Mutfili; Malabar.
Buddha, _see_ Sakya Muni.
Buddhism, Buddhists, _see_ Idolatry, Idolaters.
Buddhist Decalogue.
Buffaloes in Anin.
Buffet and vessels of Kublai's table.
_Bugaei_.
Buka (Boga), a great Mongol chief.
Buka Bosha, 1st Mongolian Governor of Bokhara.
Buku Khan, of the Hoei-Hu, or Uighurs.
Bularguji (Bularguchi), "The Keeper of Lost Property".
Bulgaria, Great.
Bulughan (Bolgana), Queen.
---- another.
Bundukdar, Amir Alauddin Aidekin ("The Arblaster").
Bundukdari, Malik Dahir Ruknuddin Bibars (Bendocquedar), Mameluke Sultan of Egypt, killed by k.u.miz.
Buraets, or Burgats, the.
Burkan Kaldun.
Burma (or Ava), King of (_See_ also Mien.).
Burnell, Arthur.
Burning the Dead, _see_ Cremation.
---- heretical books.
---- paper-money, etc., at funerals.
---- Widows in South India.
Burrough, Christopher.
Burton, Captain R.F.
Bush.e.l.l, Dr. S.W., his visit to Shang-tu, on the Khitan Scripts; Tangut rulers; orders for post-horses.
Butchers, in Kashmir, Tibet; S. India.
Butiflis (Mutfili).
Butler, _Hudibras_.
