Iberville
PIERRE LE MOYNE, SIEUR D' (ē-bā-vel'), a French-Canadian naval and military commander; born in Montreal, July 16, 1661. At the age of 14 he entered the French navy; led an expedition against Schenectady in 1690; was given command of a frigate in 1692; and took Forts Nelson and Bourbon, on Hudson Bay, in 1694 and 1697 respectively. In 1699, by order of the French Government he built Fort Biloxi at the head of the Biloxi Bay, the first post on the Mississippi river.
He afterward established other posts in the same region and was preparing to attack the coast of North Carolina, when he died in Havana, Cuba, July 9, 1706.
IBEX (i'bex), a wild goat, or rather several species of wild goats, the best known of which is the common ibex (Capra ibex). It is the ibex of the IBEX ancient Romans, the steinbock of the Germans, and the bouquetin of the French. The adult male is about five feet long from nose to tip of tail, and two feet eight inches high at the shoulder. The horns are flat, with two longitudinal ridges at the sides, crossed by numerous transverse knots; they are subvertical, curved backward, dark in color. The hair is red-brown in summer and gray-brown in winter, the beard short and dark, the inside of the ears and under part of the tail white. The general color of the female is earthy-brown and ashy. The young are gray. It in- IBRAHIM habits the highest regions of the Alps.
An analogous species, the C. pyrenaicus, is found on the Spanish side of the Pyrenees. Three other species are found upon the Asiatic, and two more on the Abyssinian and Nubian mountains.
IBICUI (ib'i-kwē), a river of Brazil, which rises in the Serra de Santa Anna, province of Rio Grande do Sul, and joins the Uruguay at Yapeyu after a course of 400 miles.
IBIGAU (ib'ē-gō), a very large goatsucker inhabiting South America; sometimes called the grand goat-sucker.