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LEFT CABEY 350 CABIES (1869) ; "Wooed and Married" (1875) ; "Uncle Max" (1887); and "The Sunny Side of the Hill" (1908). She died in 1909. CAREY, WILLIAM, an English Oriental scholar and missionary, born in Northamptonshire, Aug. 17, 1761. He was early apprenticed to a shoemaker, but his natural turn for languages, and his zeal for the spread of the Gospel, were too strong to be overcome. With the little assistance he could procure he acquired Latin, Greek, and Hebrew, and likewise studied theology. In 1786 he became pastor of a Baptist congregation at Moulton, and in 1787 was appointed to a similar situation in Leicester. In 1793 he sailed for the East Indies as a Baptist missionary, and in 1800, in con- junction with Marshman, Ward, and others, he founded the missionary col- lege at Serampore. Here he had a print- ing press, and issued various transla- tions of the Scriptures. His first work was a "Bengali Grammar." It was fol- lowed by the "Hitopadesha," in the Mah- ratta tongue, a "Grammar of the Telinga and Carnatic," and a "Bengali Lexicon." Under his direction the whole Bible was translated into 6, and the New Testa- ment into 21 Hindustani dialects. He was long professor of Sanskrit, Mah- ratta, and Bengali, in Calcutta. He died in Serampore, India, June 9, 1834. CARGO, the general term used to designate all merchandise carried on a trading ship. CARIA (ka're-a), a country of Asia Minor, whose boundaries have been dis- similar in different ages. Generally speaking, it was at the S. of Ionia, at the E. and N. of the Icarian Sea, and at the W. of Phrygia Major and Lycia. It has been called Phoenicia, because a Phoenician colony first settled there. It afterward received the name of Caria, from Car, one of its kings, who first in- vented the auguries of birds. Its chief town was Halicarnassus. CARIB, the name given by the early European navigators to the inhabitants or aborigines found on the smaller of the West India Islands, and also inhabit- ing some part of the adjacent American continent. The natives of the larger and more northern islands entertained a great dread of this race of Carib from their more war-like and savage nature; and the Spaniards, finding them always a bold and determined enemy, did their utmost to exterminate the whole race, and finally expelled all but a mere rem- nant from their native possessions. Those who escaped the Spanish sword sought refuge in that part of southern America near the mouth of the Orinoco, except a few whom the English removed and landed on the island of Ruatan, in the Bay of Honduras. The Caribs have always been distinguished from the rest of the American peoples by their athletic stature, firmness, courage, and resolu- tion. They treat all other aborigines with contempt, and consider themselves superior to every other race. They were formerly accused of cannibalism, and, there is much reason to suspect, with justice. CARIBBEAN SEA, the grandest inlet of the Western hemisphere — correspond- ing in several respects to the Mediter- ranean in the Eastern — is separated from the Gulf of Mexico by Yucatan, and from the Atlantic Ocean by the great arch of the Antilles. It forms the turning-point in the vast cycle of waters known as the Gulf Stream. It pours its waters into the Gulf of Mexico on the W. CARIBBEE BARK, the bark of the Exostemma canbseum, a tree growing in the West Indies, closely allied to Cin- chona, and occasionally substituted for the true species of the latter. It is called also St. Lucia Bark. CARIBBEES, or LESSER ANTILLES, usually divided into the Windward and Leeward Islands, a section of the West India Islands. CARIBOO, or CARIBOU, an animal, the Cervus silvestris, or American Wood- land Reindeer, the Attehk of the Cree, and Tantseeah of the Copper Indians. It is employed by the Laplanders to draw their sledges. CARICATURE, a representation of the qualities and peculiarities of an ob- ject, but in such a way that beauties are concealed and peculiarities or defects ex- aggerated, so as to make the person or thing ridiculous, while a general likeness is retained. Though a degenerate, it is one of the oldest forms of art. Egyptian art has numerous specimens of carica- ture, and it has an important place in Greek and Roman art. It flourished in every European nation during the Mid- dle Ages, and in the present day it is the chief feature in the so-called comic journals. CARIES (ka'ri-ez), a disease of bone analogous to ulceration in soft tissues. The bone breaks down, or may be said to melt down into unhealthy matter, which works its way to the surface and bursts. Excision of the carious portion of the bone is often effected with good results, but the disease often results in