Kathiawar
a peninsula on the W. of India, are arboreal in habit, and are well concealed in the foliage by their coast between the Gulf of Cambay and the concealed in the green color. The true katydid, Gulf of Cutch; Brahmin and abundant in the Central and Western States, is Cyrtophyllus in the Central native name Surashtra. A British protectorate, governed by 200 native chiefs. but Microcentrum retinervis is yet comconcavus, Area of agency, 20,559 square miles; pop. about moner, and there 2,500,000. The States of the are several other several o species. agency supply one-sixth of the total
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Katmandu
the capital of Nepal, for about der 80 miles N. of Breslau; length, 34 miles. On the banks of that river stretching a mile N. from the confluence miles. On , Aug. 26, 1813, the French were of the Baghmati and Vishnumati ag: 26, 1818, defeated by Blücher. Blücher. rivers. It contains a great number KAUAI (kä-ö-ä'e) of temples, many in pagoda shape, with roofs of a very fertile land of volcanic origin, belonging to the , a very fertile is- Hawaiian brass, and others domed; but the houses belonging to group; area 590 square miles; pop. are in general mean, the court-yards rea 690 square mil 9,000. Its highest point is about 5,000 filled with rubbish heaps, and the ghest point is ab feet; principal industry sugarplanting. streets are narrow and filthy in the extreme. The Captain Cook landed at the mouth of the principal building is the Cook landed at Waumea river in 1778. immense ugly palace of the Maharajah; close to its modern darbár, or re-
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Katunski
or KATUN, , the tä-ton'ski), or KAT ALPS highest range of the Altai
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Katzbach
quantity of cotton exported from Bombay. te'bah), a river Prussia, in Silesia, rising at Katzchdorf, a river of and falling ing at Katzchd into the Oder 30 miles N. W.
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Kaufmann
MARIA ANGELICA, Swiss ception room, is the large military council chamber A ANGELIC a artist; born in Coire, Grisons , the Kót, where in 1846 most of the chief men in Coire, Griso Switzerland, Oct. 30, 1741. She acquired , the of the state were mas- 1741. She acquis first principles of drawing and paintsacred. Pop. about 80,000. wing and pai ing from her father. In 1766 she came In 1766 she ca
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Kaulbach
WILHELM mum depth of 468 feet, and an area of 3,119 ILHELM VO (koul'bah), a German painter; born in VON acr acres, and since 1859 has supplied Glasgow painter; born Arolsen, Waldeck, 1805. He studied at Düsseldorf with water. Here are the "Silver Strand 305. He studied under Cornelius, whom he assisted in " and Ellen's Isle, the chief roelios, whom the execution of the frescoes ecution of the fresco of the Glyptothek at Munich, and subsequently succeeded in the Munich Academy. He decorated the Odeon, the palaces of Maximilian and Ludwig, and the new Pinacothek. His most ambitious pictures, excepting "The Madhouse" (1828), are to be found in a series (utilized in the decoration of the Berlin Museum) comprising the "Tower of Babel," "Age of Homer," "Destruction of Jerusalem," "Battle of the Huns and Romans," the "Crusades," and the "Reformation" (1834-1863). He illustrated many books, including the "Reineke Fuchs," the "Gospels," and the works of Shakespeare, Goethe, and Schiller. He died in Munich, April 7, 1874.
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Kauri
kow'ri, the native name of a valuable gum tree found in northern New Zealand . It is a coniferous tree. It grows to a height of from 100 to 200 feet. The timber is of value for ship-building and masts. Like the pines of the Carolinas, it yields a valuable resin, known in commerce as the kauri gum. It makes a fine varnish, hardy second to the famous lac of the East. Pieces weighing from a few grains up to thirty or even a hundred pounds are found in a fossil condition in the sands. This fossil kauri suggests the amber of the Baltic coast, to which, indeed, it is evidently closely akin. Fossil kauri is a source of no little income. Ten thousand gum diggers search for it. Six million dollars' worth is sent to London yearly. See Amber ; Gum ; Lac
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Kava-Kava
AVA-AVA, or KAWA, a small shrub, about six feet high, with stems 1 to 12 inches thick, native of the South Sea Islands; sometimes called Piper methysticum. The rhizome is said to be valuable medicinally for certain diseases of the genito-urinary organs.
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Kaveri
a river of Southern India, rising in the western Ghats, and flowing S. E. across Mysore and Madras, to the Bay of Bengal, which it enters through two principal mouths; length, about 475 miles; drainage, about 28,000 square miles; flood discharge above the delta, 472,000 feet per second. The Kaveri is of no value for navigation, its bed being rocky, with numerous rapids and falls. It is of importance for irrigation in Mysore and in Coimbatore district, but especially in the marvelously fertile delta. For this purpose the main stream has been dammed since the 4th century A. D., the Coleroon (the N. branch) since 1838.
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Kavi
or KAWI (kä'vē), the ancient sacred language of Java, with a vocabulary based chiefly on Sanskrit. The only place where it in any degree exists today uncorrupted by the ordinary Javanese, is the island of Bali.
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Kaye-Smith
SHEILA, an English author. Her first book, "A Tramping 1908 908, and Methodist," was published in 190 this was followed by "Starbrace" in the following year. Since then she has published a number of other books, among them: "Samuel Richardson"; "Isle of Thorns"; "Three Against the World"; "Willow's Forge and Other Poems"; "Sussex Gorse"; "The Challenge to Sirius"; "Little England"; "Tamarisk Town."
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Kayes
or KHAYES (kä-yās'), a town of the French Sudan, on the river Senegal, the terminus of the railway and river service from St. Louis; pop. between 6,000 and 7,000.
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Kazan
a city of European Russia, capital of the province of the same name; on the Kasanka, about 4 miles above its junction with the Volga. It is strongly fortified, with large woolcombing, weaving and dyeing establishments, tanneries and soap works. The timber, flour, and hemp fairs of Kazan are of the largest in the Russian Empire. The university is a great seat for Oriental learning. Pop. about 200,000. KA- ZAN, the province, has an area of 24,587 square miles; domiciled pop. about 3,000,000. It is well watered by the Volga, the Kama, the Sura, the Viatka, the Kasanka; agriculture, cattle-raising, and fishing are the chief occupations.
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