Volume II Part 124 (1/2)

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-wors.h.i.+p, 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 s.h.i.+ps.

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.).