Idyl
or IDYLL, a short poem, the subject, or at least a necessary accompaniment, of which is a simple description of pastoral nature, life, and scenery, people living in the Niger valley in the S. W. of Nigeria. The territory is made of different kingdoms, among them that of Nyffe or Nupé, of which the capital is Bida, and Yarriba, comprised within the Lagos protectorate. The Igbara speech resembles that of Ibo and Ewe. The tribes have an indigenous culture and are partly Mohammedan.
IGLAU (ēg'lou), the second largest town of Moravia; on the Iglawa river; 123 miles N. N. W. of Vienna. It has some old churches (one founded in 799).
Its staple industries have always been the manufacture of cloth and woolen goods; glass and tobacco are also manufactured. It has a large trade in corn, flax, wool, cloth, and timber. Here on July 5, 1436, the Emperor Sigismund signed the Prague Compactata, after which he was accepted as king by the Bohemians. In the Thirty Years' War the town was taken by the Swedes and recaptured by the Imperialists.
IGLOOLIK (ig-lö'lik), an island near the E. end of the Fury and Hecla Strait in the Arctic Ocean; the place where Parry passed the winter of 1822-1823.
IGNACIO IGNACIO (ig islands of Mexico, in the Gulf of Cali- (ig fornia, off the coast of the State of Sinaloa. effected a brilliant movement on the He died in 1869. Paraguay and won notable victories. effected a brilliant movement on the Paraguay and won notable victories.
He died in 1869. matist; born in St. Petersburg in 1832.
He served in the Crimean War and was made a colonel in 1856. Ambassador to 1878. He was conspicuous in the nego- 1864, and envoy-extraordinary in 1867- 1878. He was conspicuous in the negoister of the interior, but was dismissed Turkish War, and was appointed minin 1882. He was later governor-general of Irkutsk. He died in 1908. in 1882. He was later governor-general of Irkutsk. He died in 1908.
IGNATIUS (ig-nā'shus), surnamed ciple of St. John the Evangelist, by and martyr; a native of Syria, and disciple of St. John the Evangelist, by whom he was made bishop of Antioch, pal office with great zeal for 40 years, the Emperor Trajan , passing through Antioch, endeavored to prevail upon him tinued inflexible; on which the emperor sent him to Rome, where he was exposed to wild beasts in the amphitheater. His disciples conveyed his bones to Antioch.