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LEFT JUNKER 295 JUNOT 10 broad. It is hilly and fertile, and well adapted for producing coffee and in- digo, and has numerous herds of buf- faloes, hogs, and deer. Extensive mines have been worked in recent years. Pop. about 5,000, consisting of a mixture of Malays, Chinese, Siamese, and Burmans. JUNO JUNKER, WILHELM (yong'ker), a German traveler; born of German par- ents in Moscow, Russia, April 6, 1840. He studied medicine in Gottingen, Berlin, and Prague. Proceeding to Tunis and Egypt, in 1874, he in 1876-1878 made a series of explorations among the W. tributaries of the Upper Nile, going as far S. as the Kibbi, a feeder of the Welle. In 1879 he started from Cairo to explore the basin and course of the river Welle- Makua. This river was eventually (end of 1887) proved by Captain Van Gele to be identical with the Ubangi, a right- hand affluent of the Kongo. Junker pub- lished "Travels in Africa" (1889), and died in St. Petersburg, Russia, Feb. 13, 1892. JUNKERS (yong'kurz), the name commonly given to the younger members of the nobility of Prussia and the adjoin- ing states. "Junkerthum" was a term of reproach used in the 19th century to designate the party of reaction in Prus- sia, which found its most strenuous sup- porters among the nobility. The re- sponsibility for starting the World War of 1914-1918 has generally been laid to the Junkers, associated with Pan-CJer- mans and a military clique in sympathy with their aims. JUNO, in Roman mythology, a cele- brated deity, identified with the Hera of the Greeks, and generally regarded as the daughter of Saturn and Rhea, and sister and wife of Jupiter. The principal seats of her worship were Argos, Samos, Carthage, and afterward Rome. The hawk, goose, and particu- larly the peacock, often called Jnnonm avis (the bird of June), were sacred to her. She presided over marriage and childbirth, and as the goddess of all power and empire, and the patroness of riches, is represented sitting on a throne with a diadem on her head and a golden scepter in her right hand. The Roman consuls, when they entered on office, were always obliged to offer her a solemn sac- rifice. The public finances were also un- der her care, and the mint at Rome was in her temple. In astronomy, the name of an asteroid in proximity to Ceres. JUNOT, ANDOCHE (zhu-no'). Due d'Abrantes, one of Napoleon's generals; born in Bussy-le-Grand, Cote-d'Or, ANDOCHE JUNOT France, Oct. 23, 1771. He entered the army as a volunteer in 1792. His cour- age at Toulon caught the eye of Napo- leon, and he carried him with him to Egypt as adjutant. At Nazareth he cov- ered himself with glory by putting to flight 10,000 Turks with but 300 horse.