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256 Maudgalyayana — Nan-ni-hua-lo.
Maudgalyayana, the* Arahat,—see Mu-li6n.
Mau-mon, Arabic Momemn «t]ie Faitliful»,
14; Prince of the, his capital, 14.
Mecca, — see Ma-kia.
Medicine, not used in Eiau-chi, 45; for
Wounds, in San-fo-ts'i, 63, line 82; in Nan-p'i, 88;
dirt from tomb of Mohammed a powerfiil, 125;
in P'o-ni, 156; among the Li of Hai-nan, 180,
181; storax as a, 200.
Medina, the tomb of Mohammed at, 125.
Mei-lu-ku (-tun), capital of Lu-mei, 141;
wall of, 141; its mosques, 141; locality cannot
be identified, 141, n. i.
Mei-ssl-ta-hua-tsiu, a drink (or drinks) of
the Arabs made with honey and spices, 115—116,
120, n. 6, 121, n. 11.
Menang-kabau, kingdom of, its extent, 63;
possible legend concerning origin of, 61, 65.
Merbat, voyage from, to India by Greeks, 2;
Greek trade at, 2, — see Ma-lo-(or li-)pa.
Mi-biang, — see Gharu-wood.
Mi-lam, the river, the Arab name (Mihran)
of the Indus, 13.
Mi-sii-li, the capital of the Arabs, 115; Arabic
Misr, Egypt, 120, — see Wu-ssi-li.
Mi-tan-lo, a Hu (Western) priest comes to
China, 114.
Mie-a-mo, the capital of Nan-p'i styled, 87;
possibly Malabar, 89, n. 2.
Millet, grown in Chan-ch'ong, 48; grown in
Sho-p'o, 77; grown in Nan-p'i, 88; grown in Sinlo,
169, line «.
Ming-chou, — see Ning-po.
Mo-k'i6-la (Mogreb-el-aksa), its position not
known to Ch6u K'ii-fei, 24, 154; dress of king of,
154; extent of kingdom of, 154; army of, 154; food
of people of, 154; coral found off coast of, 154.
Mo-lai, — see Ku-lin.
Mo-la-ye, — see Ku-lin.
Mo-liang, a dependency of Chon-la, possibly
identical with Ma-lo-wbn (q. v.), 56.
Mo-lo, the country of, an emporium of Arab
trade, probably Old Eormuz, 14.
Mo-lo-kii-ts'a, — see Ku-lin.
Mo-so, stones, — see Bezoar stone.
Mo-t'i-na, Medina, reference to, 125.
Moghreb-el-aksa,— see Mo-k'i6-la.
Mohammed, the Prophet,— see Ma-hia-wu.
Momenin, Ameer-al, in Chinese Mau-mon
Wang, 14.
Money, coined, imported into China in tenth
century, 19; not used in trade in Chan-ch'ong,
48, — sec Currency. '
Monkeys, hills in Sho-p'o full of, 77.
Monopoly, foreign sea-trade made, by China,
19, 20.
Monsoons, effect of discovery of on size of
Greek ships, 2; Nearchus noticed, 2; Hippalas
discovers, 2; possibly availed of by Arabs at
earlier date, 2; voyage from China to India and
back made with, 9, 28; sailing with, from China
to San-fo-ts'i, 60; effect of sailing by the, on positions
assigned different countries by Chinese, 79.
Mon-tu, country of, probably nearQuinhon, 10.
Mortuary customs in San-fo-ts'i, 61; in Sho-
p'o, 80; in Chung-li, 131; of Iji of Hai-nan, 180,
183.
Moslims, in China, in seventh century, 14;
sacking of Canton by, 15; administration of
settlement in Canton, 16; referred to as Fan, 16;
their women called P'u-sa-man, 16; life of a
wealthy, in Canton in thirteenth century, 16—17;
mode of eating, food, gambling, games, 17; how
punished in Canton and other settlements, 17;
officials in settlement, 17; their duties, 17; loans
contracted by, from Chinese, how recoverable, 17;
people of Wu-pa, 130; customs of, in Pai-ta, 135;
temple to Moslim sailor in Hai-nan, 188, n. 28.
Mosques, in foreign settlements in China, 16';
in K'i-tz'J-ni, 138; in Mei-lu-ku, 141.
Mosul, — see Wu-ssi-li.
Mu-kli-lan, a dependency of the Arabs, 117;
the Makran province, 122; asa-fo^tida comes
from, 224.
Mu-kua, the Mukuva caste of Malabar, 89.
Mu-lan bark, a product of Si-lan, 78; the
maratha-maram of
tomentosa, Rox, 75.
the Tamils, the Pentaptera
Mu-lan-p'i, the kingdom of the Almoravides,
Southern Spain, a commercial centre, 26; where
situated, 27; ships of, 34, 142; its location, 142;
the extraordinary products of, 142; grain' kept
in silos in, 142; sheep of, 142; the Land of
Darkness from, 143.
Mu-lien, the Arhat, in Sanskrit Maudgalyayana,
his hut in Pin-t'ung-lung, 51.
Murabit, the kingdom of the Almoravides,
see Mu-lan-p'i.
Music, instruments of, in Kiau-chi, 4.5;
instruments of in Sho-p'o, 77; in P'o-ni, 156; two
systems of, in Sin-lo, 167, 169, n. 7; two systems
of, in Ji-pijn, 171.
Musk, exported from Diul Sindh, 3; exported
from China to Aden, 4; u§ed with camphor in
paste to scent body in Chan-ch'ong, 47; imported
into Chan-ch'ong, 49; used in Nan-p'i, 87; a product
of Sin-lo, 168; wood, used for making furniture
like rose-wood, 212.
Muslin, traded by Greeks at Merbat, 2; from
Ceylon, 3; brocaded, imported by Persians to
China, 16, — see Po-ti6.
Myreitica iners, a product of Chon-la, 55.
Myriad li rocks, (south-)east of Hai-nan, 176.
Myrobalans, imported to Aden from China,
4; a product of Hu-ch'a-la, 92.
Myrrh, imported by Arabs to San-fo-ts'i, 61;
a product of Pi-p'a-lo, 128; country of production
of, 197; descriptioii of tree, mode of collecting, 197.
ITairs, of Malabar, — see Nan-p'i.
Ifa-wu-tan, an island or headland passed by
the Chu-lien mission to China of 1015, between
Chu-lien and So-li Si-lan-shan (Ceylon of the
Cholas?). It is not identified, 100, n. 11.
Ifames, of kings of Kiau-chi, 45; in San-
fo-ts'i, 60, 64; in Sh5-p'o, 77; in Hai-nan, 182,
184.
ITan-chau (Laos country), early use of cotton
in, 219, line 15.
Nan-ni-hua-lo, a country of India, 97; its
city, 97; people bathe twice daily, 97; besmear
their bodies with turmeric, 97; many Brahmans in,-
97; use of cow-dung, domestic altars, 97; treatment
of Arabs when visiting, 97; adultery, 97;
products of, 98; food, 98; method of defense in,
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