Indian tribe of the highlands of Ecuador

Ac Qwinctunnetun [From the native name of Salmon River.] A linguistic stock of North American Indians. It embraces the Karok and Kworatem divisions, formerly oсcupying numerous villages on the Klamath River and its tributaries, from the range of hills above Happy Camp to its junction with the Trinity, and on the Salmon from its mouth to its sources in northwestern California. Number between 300 and 500. See Petsik . Quoratem. See Quorate an . Quorra. See Niger . Quotem (kwot'em), Caleb. A character in "The Review,"" by Colman the younger. The character was taken by him from an unsucce ful comic opera, "Caleb Quotem and his Wife, or Paint, Poetry, and Putty," by Henry Lee. Quotem is a ubiquitous and preternaturally loquacious jack of all trades, as may be seen by the sign over his door: "Quotem, Auctioneer, Plumber, Glazier, Engraver, Apothecary, Schoolmaster, Watchmaker, Sign-Painter, etc., etc. N. B. This is the Parish Clerk's-I cure Agues and Teach the Use of the Globes." Quran. See Koran . Qwinctunnetun (chwin"shtun-na'tun). ['People among the gravel.'] A subdivision (village) of the Pacific division of the At hap as can stock of North American Indians: also known as the Wish ten at in or Pistol Rivers (so called from their former habitat on Pistol River, Oregon). The survivors are on the Siletz reservation, Oregon. See At hap as can . The Century Cyclopedia of Names IN a (rä). In Egyptian mythology, the sun-god, a type of the supreme deity, always victorious: the protector of men and vanquisher of evil. He was frequently a ociated or confounded with other gods, as Amun-Ra, or Sebek-Ra. In art he was represented either hawk headed or in human form, exhib iting on his head the solar disk with the uræus. As the emblem of supreme power, every Egyptian king was styled Raab (räb). A river in Styria and Hungary which joins an arm of the Danube at Raab. Length, about 150 miles. Raab, Hung. Györ (dyer) or Nagy-Györ (nody' dyer'). A royal free city, capital of the county of Raab, situated at the junction of the Raab and an arm of the Danube (the "Little Danube"), 63 miles west by north of Budapest. Ithas important trade. It contains a cathedral, and the Abbey of St. Martins berg is in the vicinity. It was an ancient Roman town; was held by the Turks in 1594-98; and was formerly strongly fortified. Nearit, June 14, 1809, the French under Prince Eugene defeated the Austrian forces under Archduke John. It was held by the Hungarians in 1848 1890, and stormed by the Austrians in 1849. Population Raasay, or Rasay (rä'sā). An island of the Inner He brides, Inverne -shire, Scotland, separated from the Isle of Skye on the west by Raasay Sound. Length, 13 miles.