Nauvoo
a village of Illinois, on the Mississippi river; 14 miles above Keokuk. It was built by the MORMONS (q. v.) in 1840, and in a few months contained a population of 15,000. Its principal feature was a great temple of white limestone (1841-1845); but it had also mills and factories, and the beginnings of a university, and was for a few years a prosperous and happy town. After the expulsion of the Mormons in 1846, the temple was half destroyed by fire in 1848, and further ruined by a tornado in 1850. Pop. about 1,000. NAVAJO (nav'a-hō) INDIANS, a half-civilized tribe of the Athabascan group. They have a reservation in northeastern Arizona, extending in New Mexico and Utah. They have considerable native civilization, not a few of them engaging in agriculture, and in raising horses, sheep, and goats. They weave blankets, which are prized highly girl in the fine athletic race and excellent horsemen. While not an aggressive tribe, they have of life, and when very young are placed frequently been at war with the whites. They number about 22,000.
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Naval Institute
UNITED STATES, an association of naval officers having for its object the spreading of information about naval affairs among the officers of the United States Navy. It was founded in 1873 by the officers of the United States Naval Academy and now publishes bimonthly its "Proceedings," which is one of the largest and most authoritative periodicals on naval affairs in the world. The institute annually offers a prize of $200 and a gold medal to the best essay on any matter pertaining to naval affairs. All officers of the navy and persons holding positions in the Navy Department can become members.
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Naval Schools
in addition to the regular naval schools at Newport, R. I., Norfolk, Va., Great Lakes, Ill., and San Francisco, Cal., a number of others were opened in 1917 and 1918 to train the large number of men enlisting in the navy. Among these were the training stations at Bumkin Island, Boston Harbor, Bensonhurst, L. I., Pelham Bay Park, N. Y., Cape May, Cape May, N. J., Cherrystone Island, Va., Charleston S. C. (Navy Yard). Schools were established at the navy yards in Philadelphia, Boston, San Francisco, and other important cities for intensive training of the men before they were assigned to ships.
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Navarino
or NEOCASTRO, officially PYLOS, a small seaport on a bay on the S. W. coast of the Morea, Greece; it has the best harbor in Greece. The ancient Pylos, the city of Nestor, stood The Bay of Navarino was the near. scene of a great sea-fight between the Athenians under Cleon and the Spatans (425 b. c.), in which the latter were defeated; and on Oct. 20, 1827, it saw the annihilation of the Turkish and Egyptian navies by the combined British, French, and Russian fleets under Sir Edward Codrington.
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Nave
that part of an ecclesiastical edifice to the W. of the choir, and in which the congregation assemble; the part of a church between the aisles.
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Navel
in anatomy, the cicatrix of the umbilicus which causes a narrow and deep impression on the surface of the abdomen; it marks where the fœtus was attached to the placenta by the umbilical cord. In ordnance, a perforated lug or the underside of a carronade which is engaged by a through bolt and thereby secured to the carriage.
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Nawanagar
one of the Bombay states of India. It has an area of 3,791 square miles. Pop. about 350,000.
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Naxos
or NAXIA, an island of the Grecian Archipelago, the largest of the Cyclades; length 18 miles; breadth, 12 miles; area, 164 square miles; pop. about 15,000. It is hilly, but extremely productive. The chief products are fruits, wine, oil, cotton, silk, cheese, honey, and wax. Chief town is Naxia (or Naxos).
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Naylor, James
An English impostor of the seventeenth century, born in the diocese of York. He served for a time in the army, then joined the Quakers where his discourses gained for him a reputation for sanctity. Trading on the good opinion of the people, he resolved to set himself up for a sort of deity, and entered Bristol in 1656, mounted on a horse led by a man and a woman, while others ran behind chanting "Holy, holy, holy, is the god of Sabaoth." He was duly punished by having his tongue pierced with a hot iron, and his forehead marked with the letter "B" (blasphemer). This done, he was forced to ride into Bristol in disgrace, his face turned towards the horse's tail.
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Nazarenes
a Jewish sect mentioned by Epiphanius. They aimed at a patriarchal religion in place of a Mosaic Judaism, and rejected the history of Genesis and the Mosaic Law. They were found in Galaaditis, Basanitis, and other parts beyond Jordan.
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Nazareth
the home of Jesus, anciently in the district of Galilee, 21 miles S. E. of Acre, still a small but flourishing town of Palestine. It lies in a hilly tract of country, and is built partly on the sides of some rocky ridges. In the earliest ages of Christianity Nazareth (which is not mentioned in the Old Testament) was quite overlooked by the Church; the first Christian pilgrimage to it took place in the 6th century. The principal building is the Latin convent on the supposed scene of the Annunciation; but the Greeks have also erected on another spot a church in commemoration. The traveler is also shown a Latin chapel, affirmed to be built over the "workshop of Joseph"; the chapel of "the Table of Christ," a vaulted chamber, containing the veritable table at which our Lord and His disciples ate; and the synagogue out of which He was thrust by His townsmen. The Virgin's Well is just outside the town. The women of the village have long been famous for their beauty. There is here a Protestant mission and orphanage. Pop. about 11,000. Severe fighting between the British and Turkish forces, resulting in the capture of the city by the former, took place here in 1917.
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Nazarite
in the Jewish Church, a man or woman set apart by a vow for the service of God, either for a definite period or for life. The hair was allowed to grow, the fruit of the vine in any shape was forbidden, and no Nazarite might approach a corpse.
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