Cawker

See CAULKER. Cawk'y, a. Resembling, or pertaining to, cawk. Cawn'pore, KHANPURA. ( kawn'por,) a dist. or collectorate of Hindostan, prov. Allah a bad, pres. Bengal, between Lat. 26° and 27° N., and Lon. 79° 30′ and 80° 30 E. Area, 2,650 sq. m. Surface, flat. Soil, highly productive, growing cereals, European fruits and vegetables, and the sugar-cane. Prin. town. Cawnpore. Estim. pор. 1,000,000. CAWNPORE, the cap. town of the above dist., and chief British military station in the ceded provinces, on the W. bank of the Ganges, 38 m. S.W. of Lucknow. This place bears a sad notoriety for the hideous slaughter of the British by the Sepoy rebels, without regard of age or sex, during the Indian mutiny of 1857. The tale of this horror is perpetuated by a monument. Caxamar'ca, a city of Peru, cap. of prov. of same name, in a valley of the Andes, 370 m. N.N.W. of Lima; Lat. 7o 8′ 3′′ S., Lon. 78° 36′ 15′′ W. Manf. Gold and silver work. Pop . about 7,000. Caxatam'bo, in Peru, a mountainous and barren province, with a capital of same name. Pop . of prov. 27,000; of town, 6,000.