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against raids from West, 98; situated possibly in
Sindh, 102.
. Nan-p'i (Malabar), Si-Ian under rule of, 72;
its position, 87; its capital, 87; its ruler, 87; the
.body guard of the ruler of, 87; his officers, 87;
much sandy soil in, 87; diet of king of, 88; people
• Nipa,
of, devout Buddhists, 88; climate of, 88; currency of,
88; products of, 88; cat's-eyes, 88; dependencies,
88; Chinese relations with, 88; its trade with China
goes via Ki-lo-Ta-nung and San-fo-ts'i, 88; people
from, living in Ts'flan-ch6u, 88, 90; tries to conquer
the Yen-t'o-man islands, 148; Wu-li-pa in,
produces much pepper, 223; cat's-eyes from, 229.
Na-lo-ki-lo islands, the Nicobar islands, 12.
Navigation, of Chinese, in fifth century,
27-28; method of, 32, 34.
Nearchus, effect of his expedition on seatrade
with India, 1; mentions China, 5.
Needles, imported to Ma-i, 160.
Kelisseram, reached by Greek ships, 2;
Ceylon trade with, 3; Chinese exports overland
to, 5.
Ifestorian patriarch of Baghdad, the king of
Ta-ts'in of Ch6u K'ii-fei, 104-106.
New Year, how observed in Kian-chi, 45; in
Chan-ch'Ong, 47—48; a month of fasting and
prayer at, among the Arabs, 116; in P'o-ni, 156;
celebration at Ts'ttan-chou, 211.
Nicobar Islands, Greek knowledge of 2; first
mentioned by Kia Tan, 12; Chinese names for, 12;
cocoanuts principal food on, 12; ships from Persian
Gulf, passed, on way to China, 15.
Nile, the river, insures Arabs against inundations
and droughts, 116; official who watches
the rise of the, 116; its source not known, 144;
annual rise of the, 144; legend of the old man of
the, 144—145; animals of the, 145.
Ning-po (K'ing-yaan). Maritime Customs at,
18, 20.
Ning-yiian, in Hai-nan, 181.
arrak of, 64; juice of palm used in making
liquor, 84.
Niu-lun, a dependency of Sho-p'o, 83; nutmegs
from, 210.
Notched sticks, records on, in Hai-nan, 177.
Nu-fa (Dhofar), a dependency of the Arabs,
116, 121; frankincense from, 195; putchuck from,
221; aloes from, 225.
Nu-ku, a dependency of Shb-p'o, 83.
Nii-kua, a Kambojian extension of legend
of, 55.
Nutmegs, imported to Aden, 4; a product of
"Sho-p'o, 81; description of, and of mace, 210.
0-k6n-t'o (Alexandria in Egypt), 146; the
great, tower of, built by Tsu-ko-ni, 146; mirror
on tower, its use, how destroyed, 146-147.
Oak-galls, imported by Persians to China,
16; called p'u-lu in Wu-ssi-li, 140; description
of tree bearing acorns or, in alternate years,
215; foreign names for, 215.
Oarth, form of, in Hai-nan, 184.
Officials, of Sh6-p'o, 76; in Nan-p'i ride in
litters, 87; hold hereditary offices in Ji-pon, 170.
Oil, foreign, product of Chon-la, 53; of camphor,
194; whale, use of in Chung-li, 131.
Oman, — see Yung-man.
Onesicrltas, mentions China, 5.
Nan-p'i — Pau-lin-yiian. 257
Ordeals, in Chan-ch'6ng, on supposed death
by tiger or crocodile, 48.
Orris root, imported to Sho-p'o, 78.
Ostrich, or «camel-crane», in Pi-p'a-lo, 128,
129, n. 5.
Pa-ki-nung, an island of the Philippines,
possibly Bnsuanga, 161.
Pa-lau-yu, the island of Palawan (Philippines),
161.
Pa-li, — see Ma-li.
Pa-ssi-li, a dependency of Ch6n-la, possibly
identical with Po-ssl-lan (q. v.), 56.
Pa-t'a, a dependency of San-fo-ts'i, 62; probably
the country of the Batta in Sumatra, 66;
likie Tan-ma-ling, 67.
Pa-yii,the country of, on the Guzerat coast, 13.
Pai-fa-tzi, an officinal root, a product of Sinlo,
168.
Pai-hua-yiian, a dependency of Sho-p'o, 83;
probably Pejajaran, 86; pepper of, 222.
Pai-i Man, situated W. of Tongking, 45, 46.
Pai-lien, a dependency of the Arabs, 117; the
island_ and coast of Bahrein, 122.
Pai IiO-t'ien, his poetry popular in Ji-p6n,
170.
Pai-p'u-yen (the Babuyan islands in the Philippines),
160, 161, — see also San-sii.
Fai-ta (Baghdad), a dependency of the Arabs,
117; its commercial importance, 135; distance of,
from Ma-lo-pa, 135; its army, 135; the king of,
135; the umbrella of the king of, 135; the city
of, 135; food in, 135; products of, 135; dress,
religion, 135; honours shown rulers of, 135; Pissi-lo
subject to, 137; ruled over Wu-ssi-li (Egypt),
144.
Pahang, — see P'ong-fong.
Palawan island, — see Pa-lau-yu.
Palembang, — see San-fo-ts'i and Sumatra.
P'6n-ni-mo-huan, the Omayyad Caliph
Merwan II, 117.
Pon-t'o-lang (Panduranga, Panrang), 11.
P'ong, the great, therucof mediaeval writers,
it can eat a camel, water-butt can be made of
feather of, 149.
P'ong-fong (Pahang), a dependency of Sanfo-ts'i,
62, 65; like Fo-lo-an, 69.
P'6ng-hu islands (The Pescadores), P'i-sho-ye
near, 165.
P'6ng-k'ie-lo, a country of India, possibly
the kingdom of the Balhara, 97, 102.
Panrang, — see Pin-t'ung-lung.
Pantomimes, in Sho-p'o, 77.
Paper, manufacture of, unknown in Kiau-chi,
45; pet-to leaves used as, in T'ien-chu, 111, 114;
mulberry bark, from Hai-nan, 176; from bark of
mi-hiang tree, 205, lines 32-39.
Parrots, found in Chan-ch'ong, 48; Hill of,
in Sho-p'o, 76; in Sho-p'o, 78; in Ta-pan, 84; in
Chu-lien, 96; talking, and the Emperor T'aitsung,
23; from K'in-chou, 236.
Fatani river, 65.
Patriarch, of Antioch, 104-106; of Baghdad,
104-106; his dress, 106-107.
Pau-lau-an, Mount, landmark on coast of
Su-ki-tan (Central Java), 82, 85.
Pau-lin-yiian, in Ts'flan-chou, origin of,
111.
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