FREE BOOKS

Author's List




PREV.   NEXT  
|<   410   411   412   413   414   415   416   417   418   419   420   421   422   423   424   425   426   427   428   429   430   431   432   433   434  
435   436   437   438   439   440   441   442   >>  
ologie und Pathologie in den Tropen_ (Berlin, 1898); E. Esch, F. Solger, M. Oppenheim and 0. Jaekel, _Beitrage zur Geologie von Kamerun_ (Stuttgart, 1904). For geology the following works may also be consulted: Stromer von Reichenbach, _Geologie der deutschen Schutzgebiete in Afrika_ (Berlin, 1896); A. von Koenen, "Uber Fossilien der unteren Kreide am Ufer des Mungo in Kamerun," _Abh. k. Wiss._, Gottingen, 1897; E. Cohen, "Lava vom Camerun-Gebirge," _Neues Jahrb. f. Min._, 1887. (F. R. C.) FOOTNOTES: [1] This English form of the name, adopted in the 10th ed. of the _Ency. Brit._, from the German, appears preferable both to the un-English Kamerun and to the older and clumsy "the Cameroons." [2] On the 26th of July a French gunboat also entered the estuary on a belated annexation mission. CAMILING, a town of the province of Tarlac, Luzon, Philippine Islands, on the Camiling river, about 80 m. N.N.W. of Manila. Pop. (1903) 25,243. In 1903 after the census had been taken, the adjacent towns of Santa Ignacia (pop. 1911) and San Clemente (pop. 1822) were annexed to Camiling. Its products are rice, Indian corn and sugar. Fine timber grows in the vicinity. The principal language is Ilocano; Pangasinan, too, is spoken. Being in an isolated position, very difficult of access during the rainy season, Camiling has always been infested with thieves and bands of outlaws, who come here for concealment. CAMILLUS, MARCUS FURIUS, Roman soldier and statesman, of patrician descent, censor in 403 B.C. He triumphed four times, was five times dictator, and was honoured with the title of Second Founder of Rome. When accused of having unfairly distributed the spoil taken at Veii, which was captured by him after a ten years' siege, he went into voluntary exile at Ardea. The real cause of complaint against him was no doubt his patrician haughtiness and his triumphal entry into Rome in a chariot drawn by white horses. Subsequently the Romans, when besieged in the Capitol by the Gauls, created him dictator; he completely defeated the enemy (but see BRENNUS and ROME: _History_, ii., "The Republic") and drove them from Roman territory. He dissuaded the Romans, disheartened by the devastation wrought by the Gauls, from migrating to Veii, and induced them to rebuild the city. He afterwards fought successfully against the Aequi, Volsci and Etruscans, and repelled a fresh invasion of the Gauls
PREV.   NEXT  
|<   410   411   412   413   414   415   416   417   418   419   420   421   422   423   424   425   426   427   428   429   430   431   432   433   434  
435   436   437   438   439   440   441   442   >>  



Top keywords:
Kamerun
 

Camiling

 

English

 

Romans

 
patrician
 
Berlin
 

Geologie

 

dictator

 

triumphed

 
spoken

Second

 

Founder

 

Pangasinan

 

honoured

 

Ilocano

 

language

 

principal

 

FURIUS

 

season

 
infested

difficult
 

access

 

isolated

 

thieves

 

position

 

MARCUS

 

soldier

 

statesman

 

descent

 
CAMILLUS

concealment

 
outlaws
 
censor
 

Republic

 
territory
 
disheartened
 
dissuaded
 

History

 
defeated
 

completely


BRENNUS

 
devastation
 

wrought

 

Volsci

 

Etruscans

 

repelled

 

invasion

 

successfully

 

fought

 

induced