Pandours.
A corps of Hottentots and half-breeds, raised by the Dutch East India Company at the Cape in 1793.
Panthay Rebellion.
A rising of the Mohammedans of Yunnan against China, which broke out in 1855, under the leadership of Dow-Win-Sheou. The rising was successful, and the Viceroy of Yunnan finally signed a treaty by which Dow-Win-Sheou was given practically uncontrolled sway over Western Yunnan. After his death the Peking Government at last determined to restore the Imperial rule and dispatched a force for that purpose in 1867 which, after a long conflict, defeated and almost exterminated the Mohammedans.
Papal Infallibility.
This was made a dogma of the Roman Catholic Church by a decree of the Vatican Council in 1870. It is decreed that in all matters of faith and morals the Pope is infallible when he speaks ex cathedrâ, that is to say, officially as the vicegerent of God.
Paper King.
John Law of the Mississippi Scheme was so called from his issue of large amounts of paper money without an adequate reserve in specie.
Parc aux Cerfs.
The harem of Louis XV of France in the Park of Versailles.