ays Sebastian told him that when four years old he was taken by
his father to Venice, and returned to England "after certeyne yeares;
wherby he was thought to have bin born in Venice"; Stow (_Annals_, under
year 1498) styles "Sebastian Caboto, a Genoas sonne, borne in Bristow".
Galvano and Herrera also give England the honour of his nativity. See also
Nicholls, _Remarkable Life of Sebastian Cabot_ (1869), a eulogistic
account, with which may be contrasted Henry Harrisse's _John Cabot and his
son Sebastian_ (1896).

CABOTAGE, the French term for coasting-trade, a coast-pilotage. It is
probably derived from _cabot_, a small boat, with which the name Cabot may
be connected; the conjecture that the word comes from _cabo_, the Spanish
for cape, and means "sailing from cape to cape", has little foundation.

CABRA, a town of southern Spain, in the province of Cordova, 28 m. S.E. by
S. of Cordova, on the Jaen-Malaga railway. Pop. (1900) 13,127. Cabra is
built in a fertile valley between the Sierra de Cabra and the Sierra de
Montilla, which together form the watershed between the rivers Cabra and
Guadajoz. The town was for several centuries an episcopal see. Its chief
buildings are the cathedral, originally a mosque, and the ruined castle,
which is the chief among many interesting relics of Moorish rule. The
neighbouring fields of clay afford material for the manufacture of bricks
and pottery; coarse cloth is woven in the town; and there is a considerable
trade in farm produce. Cabra is the Roman _Baebro_ or _Aegabro_. It was
delivered from the Moors by Ferdinand III. of Castile in 1240, and
entrusted to the Order of Calatrava; in 1331 it was recaptured by the
Moorish king of Granada; but in the following century it was finally
reunited to Christian Spain.

CABRERA, RAMON (1806-1877), Carlist general, was born at Tortosa, province
of Tarragona, Spain, on the 27th of December 1806. As his family had in
their gift two chaplaincies, young Cabrera was sent to the seminary of
Tortosa, where he made himself conspicuous as an unruly pupil, ever mixed
up in disturbances and careless in his studies. After he had taken minor
orders, the bishop refused to ordain him as a priest, telling him that the
Church was not his vocation, and that everything in him showed that he
ought to be a soldier. Cabrera followed this advice and took part in
Carlist conspiracies on the death of Ferdinand VII. The authorities exiled
him and he absconded to More