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See Choctaw. Chaillé-Long (shä-yā'lôn), Charles. Born, of French parents, at Baltimore, Md., 1843. An African explorer. After serving in the Confed erate army he went to Egypt, and was made lieutenant colonel by the khedive in 1870. In 1874 Gordon appointed him chief of his staff and sent him on a mi ion to King Mtesa of Uganda. Though obliged, by intrigues, to return to Gordon at Gondokoro, he succeeded in exploring part of Lake Victoria and the surrounding country, the course of the Somerset Nile, and the Makaraka and NyamNyam countries. He published "Central Africa" (1887), and "The Three Prophets" (Gordon, the Mahdi, Arabi) in IMG:content-0276.png:[blocks in formation] Cha it any a (chi-tan'ya). Born at Nadiya, in Bengal, 1485: died 1527. The founder of a sect of Vaishnavas found in Bengal. His first principle was that all the faithful worshipers of Krishna (Vishnu) were to be treated as equals. Caste was to be subordinated to faith in Krishna. "The mercy of God," said Cha it any a, "regards neither tribe nor family." While the Vedic hymns and Brahman as rely on works (karma), and the Up an is hads on abstract meditation and divine knowledge, as the path to ble edne , Cha it any a found it in intense devotion, displayed by complete union of the spirit with Krishna. He disappeared mysteriously in at the age of forty-two. His followers came to regard him as Krishna incarnate, and his disciples Advaita and Nityananda as manifestations of portions of the same deity. These three leaders are therefore called the three great lords (Prabhus). They form the triad of this phase Vaishnavism. Chaka (chä'kä). See Zulu . Chalcedon (kal-se'don). [Gr. Χαλκηδών.] In ancient geography, a town in Bithynia, situated on the Bosporus opposite Byzantium. It was founded by Megarian colonists about 685 B. C. The fourth ecumenical council, at which Eutychianism was condemned, was held there in 451 A. D. It was convoked by the emperor Marc i an us, and was attended by 630 bishops (mostly from the Orient), the legates of Pope Leo I., and the commi ioners of the emperor. It a embled origi at Nicæa in Sept., 451, but was was on account of its turbulence transferred to Chalcedon in order that the imperial court and senate might attend in person. It condemned the Robber Council (Eutychian) of Ephesus (449), and adopted an orthodox confe ion of faith. Chalked on was called the city of the blind, because its founders pa ed by the then unoccupied site of Byzantium. Freeman, Hist. E ays, III. 277. Chalchihuitlicue (chäl" che-we-tle'kwe). ['Petticoat of blue-stones.'] In Mexican (Nahuatl) mythology, the godde of water, and the wife or companion of Tlaloc. She had many other names. Chalcid ice (kal-sid'i-se). [Gr. Χαλκιδίκη .] In ancient geography, the chief peninsula of Macedonia, terminating in the three smaller peninsulas of Pallene, Sithonia, and Acte, projecting into the Ægean Sea. It was settled by Eubœans about the 7th century B. C. Its chief town was Olynthus. Chalcid i us (kal-sid'i-us). Lived in the 6th (or 4th?) century A. D. A Platonic philosopher, author of a Latin translation of and commentary on the first part of Plato's "Timæus." Chalcis (kal's is). [Gr. Χαλκίς.] The chief town of Eubœa, Greece, situated on the Euripus 34 miles north of Athens: the modern Egripo, or Negropont. It was subdued by Athens in 506 B. C., and was an important trading and colonizing center. Population (1889), commune, 15,713.