Buru
or BOEROE, an island of the Malay Archipelago, in the residency of Amboyna, from which it lies about 40 miles to the W. Area, with the small island of Ambalau, 3,360 square about 15,000. The abo miles; population marshy coast lands are notoriously uncains rise in healthful, but lofty mountains the interior, one peak (Tomahoe) attaining an altitude of 8,530 feet. A dense natural forest covers most of the country, small portion has been and only a very small brought under cultivation. The soil is rich, and vegetation everywhere luxuriant. Capital, Cajeli. Ca
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Bury
2026 Editor's Note: This page uses language about other peoples, religions, or nationalities that was commonplace when the book was published and is offensive by today's standards. The text has been left exactly as it was printed, rather than cut or softened, so that the historical record — including how ordinary such language once was — is preserved. (Ed: ET 2026-07-22) a municipal and parliamentary borough of England, in Lancashire, 8 miles N. N. W. of Manchester, well situated on rising ground between the Irwell and the Roche. The staple manufacture is cotton, and there are also large woolen factories, bleaching and ting works, dye works, foundries, etc. Sir Robert Peel was born near Bury in 1788, and a bronze statue of him adorns the town. Pop. about 60,000. BURY ST. EDMUND'S, or ST. ED- MUNDSBURY, a parliamentary and municipal borough in Suffolk, England, well built and delightfully situated on the Larke, 26 miles from Ipswich. Agricultural implements are manufactured, and there is a large trade in agricultural produce. Bury St. Edmund's is an ancient place, and derived its name from St. Edmund, a King of the East Angles, slain by the heathen Danes and buried here. It contains the remains of an abbey, once the most wealthy and magnificent in Great Britain. Pop. about 17,000.
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Busaco
a ridge (1,826 feet) on the N. side of the river Mondego, in the Portuguese province of Beira, 16 miles N. N. E. of Coimbra. Here Wellington, with 40,000 British and Portuguese troops, repulsed the attack of Masséna with 65,000 French, Sept. 27, 1810.
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Bush Antelope
also called BUSH BUCK, and BUSH GOAT, names common to a number of species of ANTELOPE (q. v.), natives chiefly of the southern and western parts of Africa. According to some naturalists, they form a distinct genus (cephalolophus). They are animals of more compact form, shorter limbs, and greater strength, but much less agility, than the true or typical antelopes. They are remarkable for the arched form of the back. They have short, straight, or slightly curved horns, situated far back, and often peculiar to the male sex, with usually a long tuft of hair between them. They have no tear pits, but, instead of them, a naked glandular furrow, formed of two series of pores, on each cheek. They frequent por jungles, thick forests and beds of reeds, and, when pursued, seek to escape by diving into a thicket. The commonest species is the duyker (C. mergens), living in pairs in the bushy districts of south Africa.
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Bushing or Closing Hole Punch
This tool is very simple in construction and will be found very useful in repairing both watches and clocks. Fig. 45, Goeggel's Bushing and Closing Hole Punch, consists of two counter-sunk steel punches, with a post in the lower punch. In using, fasten the lower punch in vise and place the work over it. They are made in various sizes for watches and clocks and are quite inexpensive.
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Bushing Wire
Hard brass tubing for bushing the pivot holes of watches and clocks. This wire is kept by most material houses in the various sizes applicable to watch and clock work, and is put up in assorted sizes. See Bouchon and Bush.
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Bushire
or ABUSHEHR ("father of cities," also variously written Bushahr; in Persian, Bendershehr), a port of Persia, on a sandy peninsula on the E. shore of the Persian Gulf, in the province of Fars. The climate is most unwholesome. It is the land terminus of the Indo-European telegraph line. It has lost much of its former importance as a trade center, its harbor being neither deep nor safe. Pop. about 2,000.
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Bushnell
HORACE, an American clergyman, born near Litchfield, Conn., in 1802. He was pastor of a Congregational Church in Hartford until 1859. His numerous works on religion, theology, and morals, and other topics, include "Christian Nurture," "God in Christ," "Christ in Theology," "The Vicarious Sacrifice," "Nature and the Supernatural," "Forgiveness and Law," "Moral Tendencies and Results of Human History," "The Character of Jesus, Tesus," "Work and Play," "Christ and His Salvaation," "Politics the Law of God," etc. He died in Hartford, Conn., Feb. 17, 1876.
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Bushrangers
Australian desperadoes. Portions of Australia are covered by an almost impenetrable growth of copse-wood called locally the bush. The earliest settlers were criminals deported from England for life or for a term of years. As the country filled up with actual settlers and gold mines were worked, gangs of thieves and desperate characters recruited from the dregs of the convicts took to the bush and terrorized the settlers with their thefts, highway robberies, and bank raids. They were suppressed gradually by the Australian constabulary, and live now only in the yellow-backed novel for which they have furnished a fertile theme. 2026 Editor's Note: One bushranger became Australia's national myth: Ned Kelly , who fought his last battle in 1880 wearing homemade plate armor and a slotted iron helmet, was hanged at twenty-five and has been argued over ever since as either a cop-killer or a folk hero of the poor Irish selectors. His armor is a national relic and his image an Australian icon. (Ed: BR 2026-06-09)
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Bushrangers
in Australia, originally convicts from the English penal stations who took to the bush and became robbers. The thickly wooded mountainous districts afforded them protection, and they soon established a reign of terror. They became so strong that the government had to adopt the most stringent measures to suppress them.
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Bushwhackers
a term applied during the Civil War to loose, irregular characters, particularly of the southwest. When at home they professed to be neutrals, sympathizing with neither army. As a matter of practice, they hid away in ambush and shot passing soldiers, or, like ordinary bandits, held up travelers for their valuables. It is difficult to draw the line between a bushwhacker, a guerilla, and a highwayman. 2026 Editor's Note: The most notorious were Quantrill's Raiders , who sacked Lawrence, Kansas in 1863 and killed some 150 men and boys. Their alumni went into legend: Frank and Jesse James and the Younger brothers learned their trade riding with the bushwhackers, and simply carried on after the war as outlaws. (Ed: BR 2026-06-14)
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