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 deserves careful attention. Enumerations of prisoners affording comparable results were made in 1880, 1890 and 1904.

 NEGUS. (1) The title of a king or ruler (Amharic negūs or n’gūs), in (q.v.); the full title of the emperor is negūs nagasti, “king of kings.” (2) The name of a drink made of wine, most commonly port, mixed with hot water, spiced and sugared. According to Malone (Life of Dryden, Prose Works, i. 484) this drink was invented by a Colonel Francis Negus (d. 1732), who was commissioner for executing the office of master of the horse from 1717 to 1727, when he became master of the buckhounds.  NEHAVEND, a small but very fertile and productive province of Persia, situated south-west of Hamadan, west of Malāyir, and north-west of Burujird. Pop. about 15,000. The capital is the ancient city of Nehavend, where Yazdegird, the last monarch of the Sassanian dynasty, was finally defeated by the Arabs. ( 641). It has a population of about 5000, including 700 to 800 Jews; there are fine gardens, and an old citadel on a hill. It is situated at an elevation of 5540 ft., 27 m. from Doletābād (Malāyir), and 25 m. from Burujird. 