Hookah (_Persian_) = grenade or fire-pot, 94, 117 Huo-p’áu (_Chinese_), meanings of, 6 Igor, Russian Admiral, defeated by Greeks (941), 34 Ikreekh (_Arabic_), for igniting shell, 231 Incendiary, earliest, consisted of sulphur and pitch, 30 —— meaning of word, here, 3 Index, chemical, to Marcus’ _Liber Ignium_, 68 Iron, price of, at various times, 204 Jabir, the true and the false, 14 Jesuits superintend gun-casting at Peking (1618), 140 Jodhaimah possesses first Arabic machines, 90 Joinville on Arabic incendiaries, 4, 98, 102 Ka’aba, burning of the (683), 90 Kallinikos, the inventor of sea-fire (670-80), 33 Kallisthenes in Babylon (331 B.C.), 80 Khalid, Prince, the first Arab writer on incendiaries (_d._ 708), 72 Khubelai Khan sends for western gunners (1270), 133 Lateran Council, decree of, against incendiaries (1139), 88 Lead, price of, at various times, 204 Leipsig, battle of (1813), English rockets at, 176 Leo VI. on sea-fire, 46 Leo’s metaphor, _thunder and smoke_, 38 _Liber Ignium_ of Marcus Græcus, a composite work, 83 “Light of the Moon,” Arabic fixed light, 246 Louis XIV., Ordonnances of, about powder, 193 Lys, Passage of (1382), hand-grenades at, 169 Machine, meaning of, here, 3 Maghribiha, meaning of, 119 Mahmoud Shah Begurra of Gujarat (1482), 116 Mangonals in China, 133 Manjánik (_Arabic_) = machines, 90 Manu’s “Code of Laws,” 106 Marcus Græcus, a mere name, 86 Marsh’s percussion tube (1831), 231 Masawyah (Mesué), Arab physician, 84 Masudi on autumnal rains, 77 —-— on _qaus al-bunduq_, 92 Match, time-fuze called so by Stow, 235 Mecca, siege of (A.D. 638), 90 Mercier, Captain, 39th Regiment, proposes shell-fire from guns (1779), 209 Mercury, fulminate of, first used in priming (1807), 245 Metaphors, difficulties created by, 4, 101 Meyer, Hauptmann, on Shrapnel shell, 214 Mieth on early percussion shell, 244 Mills, powder, 187 Mithkal (or Miskal), a Persian weight, 122 Modhaffer Shah of Gujarat (1511), 118 Money, English and French, in fourteenth century, 186 Mons Meg, materials for repairing, 139 Moorsom’s (Commander, R.N.) percussion fuze (1850), 245 Mortar _éprouvette_, 193 Moyria de Maillac, Father, on Chinese historians, 126 Naphtha, Plutarch on, 39 Nassau, Graf. Johann von, proposes a percussion shell (1610), 244 Navez’s (Captain) electro-ballistic pendulum, 195 Niébla, siege of (1257), 101 “Nitiprakásika” on arms and armies, 107 Norton, time-fuzes called “pypes” by (1628), 237 Nye proposes mortar _éprouvette_ (1647), 193 Oppert, Professor, on early Hindu gunpowder, &c., 107 Orgue, meaning of, 207 Paris, use of incendiaries in (1870), 49 Pellet, for bullet, 183 Pendulum, ballistic, of Robins, 194 —— electro—ballistic, of Navez, 195 —— for timing fuzes, 240 Percussion powder, earliest, 245