Cabinda
a Portuguese seaport and territory, N. of the mouth of the Kongo river. The town carries on a considerable trade, and its people are noted for their shipbuilding and other handicrafts. Pop. about 10,000.
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Each of these 10 subjects appears in only one of the 6 encyclopedias on this shelf. None is long enough to carry a page by itself, so they are gathered here by letter. Anything that grows moves out to a page of its own.
Cable
GEORGE WASHINGTON, an American novelist; born in New Orleans, La., Oct. 12, 1844. After the Civil War he began to contribute sketches to newspapers, and afterward published stories in magazines. Among his published books are: "Old Creole Days," "The Grandissimes," "Madame Delphine," "Dr. Sevier," "The Creoles of Louisiana," "The Silent South," "John March, Southerner," "Bonaventure," "Strange, True Stories of Louisiana," "The Busy Man's Bible," "The Negro Question," "Strong Hearts," "Gideon's Band," "Lovers of Louisiana," etc.
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Caboose
ka-boos', a Dutch name for the ship's kitchen or cookroom. In the United States the name is applied to the car in which the conductor, brakeman, and other employes of a freight train ride. Each crew has its own caboose. It is fitted up frequently with bunks for sleeping, and provided with facilities for cooking or, at least, warming food. When long distance trains reach the end of a crew's run the caboose is switched off into the yard, and the caboose of the new crew put in its place for the next run. The caboose is fitted usually with a sort of observation tower from which to watch the progress of the train, and from which access may be gained through a window to the roof of the car. For real sightseeing a ride in this tower is ahead of a seat in an observation car. See Railways
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Cabral
a Portuguese navigator, the discoverer of Brazil. He lived about 1460-1526. On the successful return of Vasco da Gama from India, Cabral was sent out to follow up the discovery. He set out from Lisbon, March 9, 1500. It was his intention to round the Cape of Good Hope , but he kept too far out in the Atlantic, and was carried by a current upon the coast of Brazil April 22, 1500. This will not seem strange if we recall that the eastern coast of Brazil is less than seventeen degrees west of the African coast, and that the route was as yet largely guess-work. Cabral took possession of the coast in the name of Portugal and sent back one of his ships with tidings. This was the basis of Portuguese claims in the New World. Continuing his voyage around Cape of Good Hope, Cabral lost four ships in a storm; yet finally reached Calicut (whence calico), India, where he erected a fort. Cabral entered into treaties with various native princes and loaded his ships with cargoes of spices, then a fortune. He returned to Lisbon July 23, 1501. His subsequent life is unknown.
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Cabrera
a ), a small Spanish island, one of the Balearic Isles. The chief chief industry of the inhabitants, consisting only of a few hundred, is fishing.
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Cacapon
or GREAT CACAPON, a river in West Virginia. It flows nearly N. W. through Hampshire and Morgan counties, and enters the Potomac about 5 miles from Berkeley Springs. Its length is about 140 miles. CÁCERES (kä'thā-rās), the second largest province of Spain, in the N. of Estremadura, owned chiefly by large proprietors, and mostly devoted to cattle-raising; the N. half is a good wine country. The area is 7,667 square miles, and the population about 425,000. The , 1 capital Cáceres, 45 miles N. of Merida by rail, is famous for its bacon and sausages, and has a bull-ring of granite, dye-works, and manufactures of the Castra Cæcilia of the Romans, by woolens, crockery, and rope. It was whom it was founded in 74 B. C.; and here the allied forces defeated the rearguard of the Duke of Berwick, April 7, 1706. Pop. about 17,500.
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Cachalot
a cetacean of the family Balænidæ. It is the Physeter macrocephalus, called also the sperm or spermaceti whale. The male is from 46 to 60, or even 70 feet long; the female from 30 to 35. It is black, becoming whitish below. The cachalots feed chiefly on squids or cuttle-fishes. They are gregarious, and go in schools, sometimes with as many as 500 or 600 individuals. There are two kinds-female schools and schools of males not fully grown. With each female school are from one to three large bulls, or, as the whalers call them, schoolmasters. The cachalot inhabits the northern seas, but straggles through a great part of the ocean.
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Cachao
or HANOI, the largest city in the French Protectorate of Tonquin, on the Tonquin river, about 150 miles from its mouth. The river is to this point for small vessels. principal trade is silk and rice. lion, silk, and lacquered work are exports. It is an open port since 1873, when it passed into the hands of the French. In 1902 it became the capital of French Indo-China. It is the seat of the University of Indo-China, courts, etc. Pop. about 150,000.
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Cachet
LETTRE DE (kä-shā'), a name given especially to letters proceeding from and signed by the kings of France, and countersigned by a secretary of state. They were at first made use of occasionally as a means of delaying the course of justice, but they appear to have been rarely employed before the 17th century as warrant for the detention of private citizens, and for depriving them of their personal liberty. During the reign of Louis XIV. their use became frightfully common, and by means of them persons were imprisoned for life or for a long period on the most frivolous pretexts. They were abolished at the Revolution.
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Cacodaemons
Deities of inferior rank, one of whom it was believed by many was attached to each mortal from his birth as a constant companion, and were capable of giving impulses, and acting as a sort of messenger between the gods and men. The cacodaemons were of a hostile nature, as opposed to the agathodaemons who were friendly. It is said that one of the cacodaemons who appeared to Cassius was a man of huge stature, and of a black hue. The belief in these daemons is probably traditional, and it is said that they are the rebellious angels who were expelled from heaven for their crimes. They tried, but in vain, to obtain a settlement in various parts of the universe ; and their final abode is believed to be all the space between the earth and the stars. There they abide, hated by all the elements, and finding their pleasure in revenge and injury. Their king was called Hades by the Greeks, Typhon by the Egyptians, and Ahrimanes by the Persians and Chaldæans.
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