Caribs

All the Indians of stock well formed, with small hands and feet, light-colored and olive rather than reddish in complexion, and generally intelligent and industrious. They live in fixed villages of large size, cultivate manioc, maize, etc., and are of a pacific disposition. They readily received the whites as friends, and have never rebelled against them unle driven to do so by great oppre ion. The stock includes at present, among others, the Arawaks, Tarumas, and Guinaus of Guiana; the Guanas, Bares, Manaos, Pa es, and Juris of Brazil; the Baures and Mojos of Bolivia; and the Campas and Piros of Peru. May Queen, The. 1. A cantata by W. Stern dale Bennett, produced in 1858. The words are by Chorley.-2. A poem by Tennyson, published in 1832. Mayr (mir), or Mayer (mi'er), Johann Simon. Born at Mendorf, Bavaria, June 14, 1763: died at Bergamo, Italy, Dec. 2, 1845. A German operatic composer. Donizetti was one of his pupils at the musical institute at Bergamo, and he is said to have been the first to introduce the crescendo of the orchestra to which Ro in i owes somuch of his fame. (Grove.) Among his operas are "Saffo," "Lodoiska," "Ginevra di Scozia, "Lauso e Lidia," "Medea," "Rosa bianca e Rosa ro a," etc. Maysville (māz'vil). A city, capital of Mason County, Kentucky, situated on the Ohio 52 miles southeast of Cincinnati. It has an im portant trade in hemp. Population (1890), 5,358. Mayta Ccapac (mi'tä käpäk). Died about 1300 (according to Acosta in 1255, and by other accounts about 1211). The fourth Inca ruler of Peru. He was the son and succe or of Lloque Yupanqui, and made few conquests. Mazaca (maz'a-kä). The ancient name of Cæsarea (in Cappadocia). Mazade (mä-zäd'), Louis Charles Jean Robert de. Born at Castel-Sarrazin, Tarn-et-Garonne, in 1820: died at Paris, April 27, 1893. A French author, editor, and critic, member of the Academy 1882. Among his works are "La guerre de France 1870-71," "Μ. Thiers: cinquante années d'his to ire contempo raine," "L'Espagne moderne," "L'Italie moderne," "Lamartine, sa vie littéraire et politique,"etc. He edited the "Correspond ance du Maréchal Davout." Mazamet (mä-zä-mā'). A town in the department of Tarn, southern France, situated on the Arnette 50 miles east by south of Toulouse. It has cloth manufactures. Population (1891), commune, 14,361. Mazandaran (mâ-zen-de-rân'). A province of Persia, south of the Caspian Sea, mostly low coast-land, about 200 miles long and 50 broad. Capital, Sari. Population, 300,000. Mazariegos (mä-tha-re-a'gōs), Diego. Born at Ciudad de la Mancha about 1495: died after 1565. A Spanish soldier, conqueror of Chiapas (1524 1529). He was governor of Cuba 1556-65. Mazarin (maz'a-rin; F. pron. mä-zä-ran') (properly Mazarini), Jules. Born at Piscina, Italy, July 14, 1602: died at Vincennes, France, March 9, 1661. A French statesman. He was descended from a noble Sicilian family, studied at a Jesuit col, lege at Rome and at the University of Alcalá, and in 1622 entered the papal military service. He was afterward employed in various diplomatic mi ions, and attracted the attention of Richelieu, at whose instance he entered the French service. He became a naturalized French man in 1639, and in 1641 was made a cardinal by the Pope on the presentation of Louis XIII., although he had never taken anything but minor orders. He was appointed prime minister on the death of Richelieu in 1642, and was retained in of fice by the queen regent, Anne of Austria, after the death of Louis XIII. in 1643. He continued the foreign policy of Richelieu, which looked to the abatement of the power of the house of Austria by interfering in favor of the Protestants in the Thirty Years' War, and which resulted in complete succe at the peace of Westphalia in 1648. At home his policy of centralizing all administrative authority in the crown also a legacy from Richelieu - was opposed by the nobles and the Parliament of Paris, and gave rise to the wars of the Fronde (which see), during which he was twice expelled by his opponents from the court (1651-52 and 1652-53). In 1659 he concluded the peace of the Pyrenees, putting an end to the hostilities with Spain which had sprung up during the Thirty Years' War, and securing an increase of French territory. Mazarin Bible. An edition of the Bible printed by Gutenberg at Mainz in 1450-55, being the first book ever printed with movable types. It is so named because the first known copy of it was discovered in the Mazarin library at Paris in 1760. Mazarron (mä-thär-ron'). A town in the province of Murcia, Spain, situated near the Medi terrane an 30 miles south of Murcia. Population (1887), 16,445. Mazaruni (mä-zä-rö'nē), or Ma a run i (mäsä-rö'ně). A river in British Guiana which joins the E equibo about 45 miles southwest of George town. Length, about 400 miles. Mazas (mä-zä'). A prison in Paris, situated on the Boulevard Mazas, opened in 1850. It is off. cially called Maison d'Arrêt Cellulaire, having renounced in 1858, at the request of the family of Mazas, the name it had hitherto borne. It is still, however, popularly called the Prison Mazas. Mazatenango (mä-thä-tā-nän'go). A town of southwestern Guatemala, the capital of the modern department of Suchitepequez, about lat. 14° 45′ N., long. 91° 30′ W. It was a stronghold of the Mames Indians, and was taken by the Spaniards in 1525. Population, about 5,000. Mazatlan (mä-sät-län'). [Nahuatl, 'place of the deer'; from mazatl , a deer.] A town of about 12,000 inhabitants, on the southern coast of the Mexican state of Sinaloa, in lat. 23° 10' 37" N. The town has been besieged a number of times in the course of the numerous revolutions of Mexico. In 1847 it was taken by the American forces. On March 31, 1864, the French corvette Cordellière attacked the port and was repulsed, but on Nov. 13 of the same year a French fleet captured it after a short bombardment. On Nov. 13, 1866, the Mexican general Corona took the place again. It is the capital of the district of the same name, and the principal port of entry for the state of Sinaloa. Maze (mäz), Hippolyte. Born at Arras, Nov. 5, 1839: died at Paris, Oct. 25, 1891. A French statesman and historian. He was elected deputy for Versailles in 1879, and took his seat with the republican left, and wa was reelected in 1881. He was noted for his speeches on public education and mutual benefit a ociations. He was elected senator in 1886, and again in 1891 at the head of the list of four. Among his works are "Les gouvernements de la France du XVIIe au XIXe siècle" (1864), "La république des États Unis, etc." (1869), "La fin de la révolution, etc." (1872), "La lutte contre la misère" (1883), "Les généraux de la république" (1889), etc. Mazeppa (mä-zep'ä), Ivan. Born 1644: died at Bender, 1709. A Co ack chief. He was descended from a poor but noble family at Mazepintzui in the palatinate of Podolia, and was educated as a page at the court of John Casimir, king of Poland. Having been de. tected in an intrigue with a Polish lady of high rank, he was by order of the injured husband bound naked on the back of an untamed horse from the Ukraine. The horse on being let loose galloped off to its native haunts, where it was caught by some Co ack peasants. Mazeppa remained among the Co acks, whose hetman or chief he became in 1687. He enjoyed the favor of Peter the Great, who gave him the title of Prince of the Ukraine. With a view to making himself independent of Ru ia, he conspired first with Stanislaus Leszczynski of Poland, and afterward with Charles XII. of Sweden. Besieged by the Ru ians in his capital Baturin, he escaped to the camp of Charles XII., whom he accompanied to Bender after the battle of Pultowa. He committed suicide by taking poison. Lord Byron made him the subject of a poem in 1819. Mazères. See Masères . Mazillier. Born at Marseilles in 1797: died at Paris in 1868. A noted French dancer and composer of ballets. He began his career at Bordeaux in 1820. His pantomime was noted as particularly good. Among his ballets (in which he performed at the Opéra in Paris) are "Le diable amoureux" (1845), "Le diable à quatre" (1846), "Le corsaire" (1856), "Marco Spada" (1857), etc. In these he had the collaboration of Paul Foucher, St.-Georges, Théophile Gautier, and others. Mažuranić (mä-zhö-rä'nich), Ivan. Born 1813. A Croatian poet and politician, ban of Croatia 1873-80. His chief work is an epic national poem. Mazzara, or Mazzara del Vallo (mät-sä rä del väl'lo). A seaport in the province of Trapani, Sicily, 53 miles southwest of Palermo. It has a cathedral and ruined castle. Population (1881), Meade, Richard Kidder released for want of sufficient evidence to procure a conviction. He thereupon left Italy and resided succe ively at Marseilles, Paris, and London, whence he conducted agitations for the liberation of Italy. He founded about 1832 the secret revolutionary society of "Young Italy," whose object was the unification of Italy under a republican government. He returned to Italy at the outbreak of the revolutionary movements of 1848, and in 1849 became a member of the triumvirate in the short-lived republic at Rome, being again driven into exile on the restoration of the papal government (1849). He afterward organized insurrections in Mantua (1852), Milan (1853), and Genoa (1857), but played a subordinate part in the movement which resulted in the unification of Italy (except Venice and the Pat rim onium Petri) under Victor Emmanuel in 1861. Unwilling to take the oath of allegiance to a monarchy, he remained abroad. In 1870 he took part in an insurrection at Palermo, during which he was captured. He was, however, released by the general amnesty published by the Italian government after the occu pation of Rome. IMG:content-0664.png:[blocks in formation] Mazzuola. See Parmigiano . Mbamba (mbäm'bä). A Bantu tribe of Angola, West Africa, dwelling between the Mbidiji and Loji rivers, and scattered in small villages around Malange. The Duke of Mbamba was one of the great dignitaries of the kingdom of Kongo. The modern Mbamba grow coffee, which is exported via Loanda and Ambriz: the Mbamba of Malange are carriers. Their dialect is half Kimbundu and half Kongo. Mbangala (mbäng-gä'lä), or Imbangala (embäng-gäʻlä). A Bantu tribe of Angola, West Africa, dwelling between the Kuangu River and the Tala Mungongo range: also called Kasanji or Ca ange, from the title of the head chief. The dialect is Umbangala. This tribe is independent and enterprising in trade, but fond of rum and quarrelsome. Mbayas (mbä-yäs'). The Guarany and Paraguay an name for the Guaycurus Indians and other related hordes in the Chaco. See Guay cur us . Mbocobis. See Mocobis . Mbondo (mbōn'dō). A Bantu tribe of Angola, West Africa, dwelling to the northeast of Ma- lan lange. They wear skins, are in a lower state of culture than the Ngola, and speak a dialect of Kimbundu. Mbuiyi (mbwe ye). See Sumbe . Mbunda (mbön dä), or Mambunda (mäm-bön'dä). A Bantu tribe of the Barotse kingdom, in the upper Zambesi valley, often confounded with the dominant Barotse. They are strong enough to excite fear, and in 1880 the Barotse weakened them by a ma acre. Mbundu (mbön'dö). See Kimbundu and Um bundu . Mdewakantonwan (mdā-wä'kän-ton-wän'). ['Mysterious lake village.] village. A tribe of the Dakota division of North American Indians: the Mind awa cart on of Lewis and Clark, the original Is any at i or Santee. They were conspicuous in the Minnesota outbreak, under the leadership of Little Crow, in 1862. Most of them are farmers in Knox County, Nebraska. See Dakota . Mead (med), Larkin Goldsmith. Born at Chesterfield, N. H., Jan. 3, 1835. An American sculptor. He went to Florence in 1862, where he resides. Among his works are a colo al statue of "Vermont (1857); "Ethan Allen" (1861), at Montpelier, Vermont; "Lincoln" (1874), at Springfield, Illinois; "Ethan Allen" (1874), at Washington; etc. He has also executed four colo al groups representing the different branches of the army and navy service. Mead, Richard. Born at Stepney, London, Aug. 11, 1673: died at London, Feb. 16, 1754. An English physician. He entered the University of Utrecht in 1689, and studied under Grævius for three years. In 1692 he went to Leyden, and took his degree of M.D. at Padua in 1695. He was made a fellow of the Royal So- ciety in 1703. In 1703 he was elected physician at St. Thomas's Hospital, London, and in the same year discovered the itch-mite. He became the most popular physician of the day, and a famous collector of books, coins, etc. In 1727 he was made court physician to George II. He pub- lished "De Variolis et Morbilis" (1747), "Monita et Præ- cepta Medica" (1751). He is best known as the friend of Pope, Johnson, and other famous men. Meade (med), George Gordon. Born at Cadiz, Cadiz, Spain, Dec. 31, 1815: died at Philadelphia, Pa., Nov. 6, 1872. An American general. He graduated at West Point in 1835, served in the Mexican war, and was appointed to the command of a brigade of volunteers in the Army of the Potomac at the beginning of the Civil War in 1861. He served in the Peninsular campaign, and a division at Antietam and a corps at Free 13,074. Mazzarino (mät-sä-rēnō). A town in the prov-commanded Hesiode am or oa, ince of Cal tan is sett a, Sicily, 47 miles west southwest of Catania. Population (1881), 12,964. Mazzini (mät-sēnē), Giuseppe. Born at Genoa, June 28 (221), 1805 (1808): died at Pisa, Italy, March 10, 1872. An Italian patriot and revolutionist. He graduated at the University of Genoa in 1826, became a member of the bar of that city, and joined the Carbonari. In 1830 he was arrested by the authorities of Piedmont on the charge of conspiring against the government, but after an imprisonment of six months was of the Army of the Potomac June 28, 1863, and defeated General Lee at Gettysburg July 1-3, 1863. He remained in command of the Army of the Potomac during the rest of the war. He was promoted major-general in the regular army Aug. 18, 1864 (having held a corresponding rank in the volunteer service since 1862). Meade, Richard Kidder. Born in Nansemond County, Va., July 14, 1746: died in Frederick (now Clarke) County, Va., Feb., 1805. An American Revolutionary officer. IMG:content-0665.png:[blocks in formation] John Porter defeated a part of Lee's under Long street and A. P. Hill. This is also called battle of Beaver Dam Creek, and formed part of the Seven Days' Battles. Meadows (med'ōz), Drink water. Born in Yorkshire or Wales, 1799: died at Barnes, June 12, 1869. An English actor. After playing in pro- vincial theaters, he made his first appearance in London at Covent Garden in 1821, and remained there until 1844, when he went to the Lyceum, and later to the Prince 's. Meadows, Sir Philip. Born at Chattis ham, Suf- folk, 1626: died Sept. 16, 1718. An English diplo-Mechi (mek'i), John Joseph. Born at Lon- matist. He graduated at Cambridge, and in Oct., 1653, relieved Milton as Latin secretary to Cromwell's council. Méchant (ma-shon'), Le. [F., 'The Wicked One.'] A comedy by De Gre et, produced in Paris in 1745. Villemain says it is the exact reflection of the salons of the 18th century. The hero perhaps might properly be called a roué. don, May 22, 1802: died Dec., 1880. An English IMG:content-0666.png:[ocr errors] he was knighted and made amba ador to Sweden. At the Restoration he retired, and in 1677 published "A Narrative of the Principal Actions occurring in the Wars betwixt Sueden and Denmark," and in 1689 "Observations concerning the Dominion and Sovereignty of the Seas." At the Revolution (1688) he was restored to favor, and in 1692 was appointed commi ioner for taking public accounts. Meadville (mēd'vil). A city, capital of Crawford County, Pennsylvania, situated on French Creek 84 miles north of Pittsburg. It has flourishing manufactures (of iron and woolens) and trade, and is the seat of Allegheny College (Methodist Episcopal) and of a Unitarian theological seminary. Population (1890), 9,520. Meagher (mäʼ Hèr), Thomas Francis. Born at Water ford, Ireland, Aug. 3, 1823: drowned near Fort Benton, Montana, July 1, 1867. An Irish American general. In 1844 he became an orator of the Irish repeal a ociation, and for advocating insurrection was dubbed "Meagher of the Sword" by Thackeray. In July, 1848, he was appointed to the war directory of the Irish Confederation. He was arrested Aug. 13, 1848, and transported to Van Diemen's Land in July, 1849. He esaped with admitted to the to New York in 1852, where he was nized the Irish Brigade, and was made brigadier-general