Kane, Elisha Kent
Elisha Kent (1820-1857), an Arctic explorer. He was a native of Philadelphia, a graduate of the medical school of the University of Pennsylvania. He held various government appointments as a surgeon, including that to the American Embassy to China, and was enabled to see much of the world. In 1850 he was made senior surgeon to the expedition sent out to search for Sir John Franklin. On his return, he published an interesting account of The United States Grinnell Expedition in Search of Sir John Franklin: A Personal Narrative. In 1853 he returned to the Baffin's Bay country. His ship became entangled in the ice north of Smith's Strait in latitude 78 deg. 43', and was frozen in for twenty-one months. Dr. Kane then abandoned the ship and set out with his companions for the Danish settlements of Greenland 1300 miles distant. This he accomplished by boats and sledges in the short space of ten weeks, with the loss of but one man. The Second Grinnell Expedition is a popular account of the perils and privations undergone by the party. See Arctic Regions
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Kanizsa
free town, Hungary, situated 136 miles S. W. of Budapest. The citizens are mostly Magyars and in religion the Roman Catholic church prevails . A Piarist and Franciscan cloister are located here. The town has a considerable trade in live stock and agricultural products. Pop. about 27,500.
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Kankakee
a city and county-seat of Kankakee co., Ill.; on the Kankakee river, and the Illinois Central and other railroads; 56 miles S. W. of Chicago. It is an important railroad junction and trade center, is located in the Gary steel
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Kansas River
three large river, a large a wholeformed by the union of the Smoky Hill of the Smok Fork and Solomon river, 10 miles W. of on er, 10 miles Abilene, and so called from the tribe of cenfrom the t is Indians which once dwelt on its shores. velt on its s The It flows E., traversing a fertile plain a fertile interspersed with wooded hills and on wooded hills There bluffs; and joins the Missouri river at the Missouri riv Kansas City on the E. border of Kansas. he E. border of K streets. Its chief affluents are the Republican ts are the Repu and Big Blue Rivers. From the source the vers. From the house, of the Smoky Hill Fork, to the mouth of Fork, to the mo Exthe Kansas is about 900 miles. out 900 miles. General KANSAS, UNIVERSITY OF, a co- VERSITY OF, educational non-sectarian institution in sectarian institut institu- Lawrence, Kan.; founded in 1864; reunded in 186the ported at the close of 1919: Professors 1919: Prof of and instructors, 292; students, 3,312, volstudents, 3,31 Park umes in the library, 125,000; president, 125,000; pres is Frank Strong, Ph. D. public schools.
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Kansoo
or KANSU (kän-sö'), an inland province in the N. of China; area, 86,608 square miles; pop. about 6,000,- 000. It is mountainous, some of the peaks rising more than 10,000 feet above sea-level, and is watered by the Yellow river, but has few fertile tracts. The climate is cold, but wheat, barley, and millet grow, and large flocks and herds are maintained. Capital, Lan-choo-foo.
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Kant
IMMANUEL (känt), a German philosopher; born in Königsberg, Prussia, April 22, 1724. His three great works were: "Critique of Pure Reason" (1781); "Critique of the Practical Reason" (1788), which bases the ideas IMMANUEL KANT of God, freedom, and immortality on the ethical consciousness alone, denying that we have any right to hold them otherwise; "Critique of the Power of Judgment" (1790). He wrote also on cosmic physics, æsthetics, pedagogy, ethics, the metaphysical basis of law, etc. He was Professor of Logic and Metaphysics at the University University of Königsberg. He died in Königsberg. Feb. 12, 1804.
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Kantara
a village on the east bank of the Suez Canal, 40 miles south of Port Said. In 1917 it was used as a base of supply by the British forces in Egypt, engineering shops being estab lished and quays built. It was also made the terminus of a military railway across the Sinai peninsula and figured in the Syrian campaign during the World War.
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Kanuri
or KANORI, a Sudanese people, who form the principal portion of the population of Bornu.
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Kapila
believed by the Hindus to be the god Vishnu, son of Brahman, in the fifth of his twenty-four incarnations. He wrote a series of philosophical propositions known as the Sutras, in which he states it is by philosophical study alone that one may attain union with the deity.
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Karachi
a district of Sind, India, bounded on the W. by Baluchistan, on the S. by the Arabian sea, on the E. by the Indus; area 14,115 square miles; pop. about 600,000. Also a seaport and the chief city of Sind, on Karachi Bay; annexed by the British in 1843; foreign trade amounted in 1898- 1899 to 12,896,636 tens of rupees; pop. about 175,000. KARADSCHA. See PHOCTA.
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Karafuto
the part of the island of Sakhalin, off the east coast of Siberia, belonging to Japan. The island covers an area of 27,823 square miles, the part N. of the 50th parallel of latitude belonging to Russia, and the part S. to Japan. Karafuto's area is 13,048 square miles, almost half of the island. Pop. 1917, about 68,000.
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Karaites
the descendof the ancient coast Obi and rivers discharge their waters into its . The Obi and Yenisei ants Sadducees. Their N. E. system was waters revised by Anan ben David, A. D. 761 or 762. corner. Since Nordenskjöld's Norden famous voyage in the "Vega" (1875), various navigators They reject tradition, and in this Vega" have demonstrated the navigability respect bear the same relation to the have demor of the sea. Talmudic Jews that Protestants do to the sea. Th The Kara Sea being thus navigable for about two months (July to Roman Catholics. They few thousand. le for ab- September) in the year, number They are tember) in t a found in Russia, Galicia, Constantinople, Jerusalem, can be made available for trade with for trac Siberia. etc.
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