Hengist

who had lost his brother in the battle near Eglesford (now Ailsford) in a. p. 445, founded the Kingdom of Kent, established his residence in Canterbury, and died about the year 488. By some recent writers the brothers are, with insufficient reason, regarded as mythical personages, Heng-kiang, a river of China, falling from the N. W. into the Yangtse-kiang. In its course of 300 miles it has several large cities on its banks, Henna, a shrub bearing opposite entire leaves and numerous small, white fragrant flowers disposed in terminal panicles. It grows in moist situations throughout North Africa, Arabia, Persia, and the East Indies and has acquired celebrity from being used by the inhabitants of those countries to dye yellow the nails of their fingers and the manes, hoofs, etc., of their horses.