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They build round houses with verandas, and wear a karo . The western Bechuana are rather pastoral than agricultural. The principal eastern tribes are the Basuto, Ba-tlaka, Ba-Mapela, Ba-Pedi; the western are the Ba-Hlapi, Ba-Tlaro (Kuruman), Ba-Rolong (Mafeking), Ba-Ngwaketsi and Ba-Kuena (Molopolole), Ba-Mangwato, between Ngami and Limpopo (Khama's people). Chuapa (chö-ä'pä), or Choapa (cho-ä'pä). A river in Chile which separates Coquimbo from Aconcagua, flowing into the Pacific Ocean 100 miles north of Val para i so. Length, 120 miles. Chubar (chö-bär'), or Charbar (chär-bär'). 1. A bay on the southern coast of Persia, in lat. 25° 20′ N., long. 60° 30′ E.-2. A port on the Bay of Chubar. Chubb (chub), Thomas. Born at East Harnham, near Salisbury, England, Sept. 29, 1679: died at Salisbury, Feb. 8, 1747. A mechanic apprenticed to a glove-maker, and later a istant to a tallow-chandler of Salisbury, noted as a deistical writer. Of his various controversial tracts the best-known is that entitled "The True Gospel of Jesus Christ A erted" (1738). Chuchacas. See Keresan . to). Chucuito, or Chucuyto, or Chuquito (chö-kwe'tō). A town in southern Peru, situated on Lake Titicaca 15 miles southeast of Puno. Under the Incas this was the most important town of the Collao, and ancient ruins still exist near it. Population, estimated at 5,000. Chudleigh (chud'lē). A town in Devons hire, England, 8 miles southwest of Exeter. Chudleigh, Cape. A cape at the entrance of Hudson Strait, on the northern coast of Labra- dor. Chuffey (chuf'i). The superannuated clerk who saves the life of old Anthony Chuzzlewit in Dickens's "Martin Chuzzlewit." Chukiang (chö-ke-äng'). Same as Pearl River , in China. Chumaia (chö-mi'ä). A tribe of North Ameri- can Indians living in Eden valley and on the Middle Eel River, California. See Yukian . Chumanás. See Jumanas . Chumash an (cho'mash-an). A linguistic stock of North American Indians. It embraces a num- ber of coast tribes formerly residing at and about the seats of the mi ions of San Buenaventura, Santa Bar- bar a, Santa Iñez, Puri ima, and San Luis Obispo, Cali- fornia, and also upon the islands of Santa Rosa and Santa Cruz, and such other of the Santa Barbara islands as were permanently inhabited. Only about 40 individuals of the once populous stock survived in 1884 of these about 20 live near the outskirts of San Buenaventura. Chumash, from which the stock name is derived, is the native name of the Santa Rosa islanders. Chumawa (cho-ma'wä). An almost extinct ple (1) about 1355: died at Con stance, Gertribe of North American Indians. See Palaih many, April 15, 1415. A celebrated Greek nihan. scholar, teacher of Greek in Italy. Many dist in- Chumbaba. See Khumbaba . guished scholars were his pupils. He wrote "Erotemata Chumbul (chum-bul'). See Chambal . sive Quæstiones," one of the first Greek grammars used in Chun (tchön), Karl. Born Oct. 1, 1852. A Italy. Chrysopolis (kri-sop'o-lis). [Gr. Χρυσόπολις, golden city.] An ancient town on the site of the modern Scutari, in Asia Minor. Chrysostom (kris'os-tom or kris-os'tom), Saint John. [Gr. χρυσόστομος , golden-mouthed.] Born at Antioch, Syria, probably in 347 A. D.: died near Comana, Cappadocia, Sept. 4, 407. A celebrated father of the Greek Church. He was preacher and prelate at Antioch, was patriarch of Constantinople 398-404, and was exiled to Cappadocia 404407. The chief editions of his works are the "Benedictine" (13 vols. fol. 1718), and that of the Abbé Migne (13 vols. 1863). He is commemorated in the Greek Church on Jan. 27 and Nov. 13, in the Roman Church on Jan. 27. The last of the great Christian sophists who came forth from the schools of heathen rhetoric was John, the son of Secund us, a general in the imperial army, who is generally known by the surname Chrysostomus, given to him, as to the eminent sophist Dio Cocceianus, on account of his golden eloquence. He was born at Antioch, about A. D. 347, and was taught rhetoric in his native city by Libanius, who would gladly have established him in his school as his a istant and succe or, if Chrysostom had not been drawn away from secular pursuits by his reliK. O. Müller , Hist. of the Lit. of Anc. Greece, III. 341. [( Donald son .) gio us convictions. Chrysostome (kris'os-tom). A character in Cervantes's "Don Quixote," a learned man who died for love. Chrzanowski(chzhä-nov's ke), Adalbert. Born in the waywode ship of Cracow, 1788: died at Paris, March 5, 1861. A Polish general in the revolution of 1830-31. He was commander of German zoölogist. Chunar (chun-är'), or Chunarghur (chunär'ger). A fortified town in the district of Mirzapur, Northwestern Provinces, British India, situated on the Ganges 19 miles southwest of Benares. It was taken by the English in 1763. The treaty of Chunar between Hastings and the Nabob of Oudh was concluded in 1781. Chunchos (chön'chōs). 1. A tribe of Indians in eastern Peru and northern Bolivia, about the head waters of the Madre de Dios and Huallaga. They have retained their independence, and are implacable enemies of the whites. Their language is little known, but is said to be the same as that of the neighboring Antis or Campas, with whom some writers identify them. 2. The name given by Tschudi to one of the three great aboriginal races which he supposed to have inhabited Peru from very ancient times. The others were the Quichuas and Aymarás. By this cla ification the name would include not only the Chunchos proper, but a great number of savage tribes, principally east of the Andes. Chungking (chung-kēng'). A city in the province of Szechuen, China, at the junction of the Kialing with the Yangtsz'. Chungu (chön gö), or Ba-Chungu (bä-chön gö). A Bantu tribe settled on the highland between Lakes Nya a and Tanganyika, central Africa. Chupas (chöpäs). An elevated plain west of Guamanga (now Ayacucho), Peru, about midway between Cuzco and Lima. Here the younger Almagro was finally beaten by the royalist forces under Vaca de Castro, Sept. 16, 1542. See Almagro , Diego de, The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia: The Century Cyclopedia of names IMG:content-0294.png:[blocks in formation] Chuquisaca (city). See Sucre. Chuquito. See Chucuito . Chur (chör). See Coire. Church (chèrch), Benjamin. Born at Duxbury, Ma ., 1639: died at Little Compton, R. I., Jan. 17, 1718. An American soldier. He took part in King Philip's war, including the swamp fight with the Nar rag an setts, Dec. 19, 1675, and was in command of the party hunted King Philip to death Aug. 12, 1676. his direction and from his notes his son Thomas compiled "Entertaining Pa ages relating to Philip's War" (1716). Church, Frederick Edwin. Born at Hartford, Conn., May 4, 1826. A noted American landscape-painter, a pupil of Thomas Cole. His best known works are "Niagara Falls from the Canadian Shore" (1857: in the Corcoran Gallery, Washington), "The Heart of the Andes" (1859), "Cotopaxi" (1862), etc. Church, Frederick Stuart. Born at Grand Rapids, Mich., 1841. An American painter. Church, Sir Richard. Born in the county of Cork, Ireland, 1784: died at Athens, Greece, March 20, 1873. A British soldier, long a military commander and official in the Greek service. He served as ensign in the Egyptian campaign of 1801; became captain in the Corsican Rangers 1806; was present at the battle of Maida, and took part in the defense of Capri and (as a istant quartermaster-general) in various actions in the Ionian Islands; and was appointed lieutenant-colonel of a Greek infantry regiment in 1812. When the Greek revolution began, he joined the insurgents (March 7, 1827), and po e ed great influence as a leader of the movement and as a military commander. He also took part in the revolution of 1843. In that year he was appointed senator, and in 1854 general in the Greek army. Church, Sanford Elias. Born at Milford, N. Y., April 18, 1815: died at Albion, N. Y., May 14, 1880. An American jurist and politician. He was lieutenant-governor of New York 1851-54, and chief justice of the State Court of Appeals 1871-80. Church ill (chèrch'il), Arabella. Born 1648: died 1730. Eldest daughter of Sir Winston Church ill of Wootton Ba ett, Wilts hire, and elder sister of John Church ill, duke of Marl borough: a mistre of James II. Church ill, Charles. Born at Westminster, Feb., 1731: died on a visit to Boulogne, Nov. 4, 1764.