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LEFT BAEOCZY MABCH 421 BALEIQH ILA.KOCZY MABCH, a simple but grand military air by an unknown com- poser, dating from the end of the 17th century. The Hungarians adopted it as their national march. The air most gen- erally known out of Hungary as the Eakoczy march is one by Berlioz in his "Damnation of Faust"; Liszt also wrote an orchestral version of the original. EAKSHASAS, in Hindu mythology, a class of evil spirits or genii, cruel mon- sters, frequenting cemeteries, devouring human beings, and assuming any shape at pleasure. They are generally hide- ous, but some, especially the females, al- lure by their beauty. BALE, in pathology, a noise or crepi- tation caused by the air passing through mucus in the bronchial tubes or lungs. BALEIGH, a city, capital of the State of North Carolina, and county-seat of Wake CO. ; on the Southern, the Seaboard Air Line and the Norfolk Southern rail- roads, 28 miles S. E. of Durham. Here are the State Capitol, United States €k)vernment Building, State Penitenti- ary, State Institution for the Deaf and Dumb and the Blind, State Asylum for the Insane, Home for Incurables, Rex Hospital, State Agricultural and Me- chanical College, Baptist Female College, Male Academy, Shaw University (Bapt.), Peace Institute (Pres.), St. Augustine's School (P. E.), St. Mary's School (P. E.), and, near the city, the University of North Carolina, and Wake Forest College (Bapt.). The city con- tains electric street railroads, gas and electric lights, waterworks, National and savings banks, and daily and weekly newspapers. It has a large trade in cot- ton and tobacco, and its industries in- clude flour mills, phosphate works, foun- di'ies and machine shops, brick making plants, car and car wheel shops, ice fac- tory, etc. Pop. (1910) 19,218; (1920) 24,418. BALEIGH, SIB WALTEB, an Eng- lish explorer, historian, and essayist, born at Hayes, Devon, England, about 1554. He was a half-brother of two other famous Elizabethan 'Tjnights-errant of the seas," Humphrey and Adrian Gil- bert. For a time he studied at Oriel College, Oxford, but in 1569 he was fight- ing in France. Tradition has it that he was with Sidney in Paris at the time of the Massacre of St. Bartholomew (1572). By 1577 he was back in England and a little later had his first over-seas experi- ence under Sir Humphrey Gilbert. In 1580 he was in Ireland, with Lord Grey, returning the next year with despatches, when he attracted the attention of the Queen, according to tradition, by spread- ing his new cloak upon a muddy place in her pathway. He became one of the Queen's secretaries and held many im- portant offices. He was interested in colonizing projects, and in 1584 secured a charter to lands in America. He imme- diately fitted out two ships for explora- tion along the coast of Virginia and the Carolinas, and a few months later sent his cousin, Sir Richard Grenville, to plant a colony on what is now the eastern coast of North Carolina. The increas- ing tension with Spain diverted him from these projects for a time. He played an important part in the defense against the threatened invasion by the great Armada (1588), and after the peril was over went to Ireland, where the Queen had given him a large estate. Here he met Spenser, whom he per- Sm WALTER RALEIGH suaded to return to England with the first part of the "Faerie Queene." That the two men were on terms of intimacy is shown by the facts that Spenser dedi- cated his great poem to Raleigh, that Raleigh returned the compliment by writing a beautiful sonnet in praise of his friend's poem, and that Spenser tells, in "Colin Clout," of their talks together and gave him the happy title of "Shep- herd of the Ocean." In 1591-1592 Raleigh lost, tempora- rily, the Queen's favor throup:h his mar- riage with Elizabeth Throgmorton. He wrote a spirited account of the last fight of the "Revenge," lost in an engagement with the Spanish fleet near the Azores, Raleigh's story being the basis for one