Kongo River
a Central African river, which Stanley proposed to call the Livingstone. At its mouth on the Atlantic seaboard the Kongo is an immense body of water, nearly 10 miles wide, and over 1,300 feet in depth. Its upper course remained unknown till Stanley identified the Kongo with the Lualaba, and so connected it immediately with the great system of lakes S. and W. of Lake Tanganyika, and less directly with Tanganyika itself. From the Chibalé Mountains to its mouth it has a length of 2,900 miles; by its great and numerous one mouth and no delta, and brings down a volume of water exceeded only by the Amazon. From the great lake-like ex- panse of Stanley Pool vessels can steam Kasai, Ruru) it is said to drain an area of 1,300,000 square miles. It has but one mouth and no delta, and brings down a volume of water exceeded only by the Amazon. From the great lake-like exwas gained here by 240,000 Prussians 1,000 miles into the heart of Africa.
KÖNIGGRATZ (-grāts), s), a town of Bohemia, Austria, on the Elbe; 73 miles E. by N. of Prague. A signal victory was gained here by 240,000 Prussians over 220,000 Austrians on July 3, 1866.
The Austrians name the battle Sadowa from an adjoining village nearer the center of the battlefield. Pop., 11,000. KÖNIGSBERG, a town and fortress in East Prussia, Germany, on the Pregel blockhouse built in 1255 by the Knights river; 366 miles N. E. of Berlin. The quarters of the grandmaster of the Ororiginal nucleus of the place was the of the Teutonic Order. It was the headder, and from 1525 to 1618 was the resicastle chapel (built in 1592) Frederick dence of the Dukes of Prussia. In the 1861. The Kneiphof parish church is an adjoining building KANT (q. v.) lies I. crowned himself first king of Prussia in 1701, and William I. was crowned in a Lutheran institution in 1544. The buried. The university was founded as a Gothic structure, erected in 1333; in town was first fortified in 1626. By the treaty signed here in 1656 the duchy of East Prussia acknowledged the suzerainty of Sweden, instead of Poland. Königsberg was occupied by the Russians in 1758 and by the French in 1807. In the World War the place suffered by the Russian invasion in 1914, but the Germans soon recovered the town. Pop. about 250,000. is the coast country to the S. of the inan aze osi victory Prass 1866.
My ttle Sadowa arer the con- 11,000. the mated ad 200,000. 800 feet above the Elbe, 24 miles S. E. of no military importance, on a rock yielded to Frederick the Great in 1756. of Dresden. Here the Saxon army once regarded as impregnable, but now of no military importance, on a rock 800 feet above the Elbe, 24 miles S. E. of Dresden. Here the Saxon army yielded to Frederick the Great in 1756. ncy,