Cochin China
a country forming part of the peninsula of southeastern Asia, and generally regarded as compart of the peninsula of southeastern Asia, and generally regarded as com- prising the whole of ANAM (q. v.) and Lower or French Cochin China. The latter belonged to Anam till, in 1863, a portion of it was ceded to France after a war occasioned by the persecution of French missionaries; another portion being declared French territory in 1867.
The territory thus acquired covers about 20,000 square miles. Pop. about 3, 050,785. It is now organized into four provinces and 21 arrondissements the low and wet grounds much rice is grown.
In In the more elevated districts are grown tobacco, sugar-cane, maize, indigo, and betel. Among the other products are tea, gums, cocoanut oil, silk, spices.
Industrial arts are as yet limited among the natives. But they excel in the use of wood, of which their temples, pagodas, and tombs are built, being ornamented with elaborate car carving. They live in villages adjacent to the rivers, which form the chief means of communication. The principal export is rice, mainly to China; cotton and silk are also exported. The majority of the inhabitants are Anamese. In their monosyllabic language, their religious tendencies toward Buddhism or the system of Confucius, and in their social customs they much resemble the Chinese. Upper Cotoward Buddhism or the system of Conto the narrow strip of land on the E. coast of Anam between the mountains and the sea extending from Tonquin on the N. to Champa on the S., or from about 18° to 11° N. In the World fucius, and in their social customs they much resemble the Chinese. Upper Cofought with the French in the Balkan campaigns.
COCHIN, HENRY DENYS BENOÎT MARIE. A French author, born in Paris in 1854. He was educated at the Lycée Louis-le-Grand, graduating in litfought with the French in the Balkan German war he was a volunteer in the 17th batallion of the Garde Nationale.
In 1877 he became attaché to the Minister of the Interior; and deputy in 1893, remaining in the Chamber till 1914, when he retired in favor of his son. For four years he was Conseiller Général of the North. His works include: "Giulietta et Vita Nuova de Dante traduite et com- mentée," "Tableaux flamands," "Jubilés ecace," "Un Ami de Pé- Roméo," "Le Manuscrit de M. Larsonnier," "Воссасе ," trarque," "Le Frère de Pétrarque," "La Vita Nuova de Dante traduite et comappearing in 1918. dyeing scarlet and crimson; consists of the bodies of the females of a species of Coccus, called C. cacti, because it feeds COCHINEAL, a dye-stuff employed in upon plants of the Cactus family, par- "Les deux Guerres," "L'Œuvre de guerre du peintre Albert Besnard," this last