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-posed to have been founded by Alexander the Great, although the name is Persian. During the wars of 1879–81 the British entered Kandahar unopposed, and held the city for several months after they had evacuated the rest of Afghanistan. Population 30,000.

Kane (kán), Elisha Kent, an Arctic explorer of renown, was born at Philadelphia on Feb. 3, 1820. He graduated in the medical department of the University of Pennsylvania in 1842, and entered the United States navy as a surgeon in the following year He commenced his remarkable career as an Arctic explorer in 1850 accompanying the Grinnell expedition in search of Franklin In 1853 he was made commander of a second expedition for the same purpose. The object of this expedition was never attained; and, after undergoing the greatest hardships and privation during two winters, it was finally resolved to abandon the ship and return home. Kane reached Philadelphia in October, 1855, and soon after published a narrative of the expedition. He died at Havana, Cuba, Feb. 16, 1857. See Life by W. Elder.

Kanem (ka'nĕm) is a small Moslem state lying north of Lake Chad, with an area of about 170,000 square miles and a population of 2,000,000. Its capital is Abeshr, the southern terminus of the caravan route from Benghazi on the coast of Tripoli. It accepted the protectorate of France during the summer of 1903.

Kangaroo (kan'ga rö' ), a pouched animal of Australia, with very large hind limbs and short front ones. The giant kangaroo was found near the coast by Captain Cook in 1770, on his voyage to Australia, but it is now driven into the interior. Large males attain a height, when erect, of seven feet. The hind legs and tail are enormous. Kangaroos often sit erect on the tail and hind legs. They ordinarily jump nine or ten feet, but, when hard pressed in pursuit, will make 15 or 20 feet at one leap On open ground they are more than a match for the fleetest dogs. They live on the open plains feeding on the herbage, are entirely herbivorous and owing to their close cropping do much damage. Because of this and the value of their flesh and hides they are persistently hunted. As a rule they prefer open spaces, but some kinds live among shrubs and one species is a tree-climber. There are several varieties of kangaroos, all living in Australia, Tasmania and New Guinea. They have a pouch in which the young are reared and into which they retire for shelter and food, until they reach, in the larger species, a weight of ten pounds. Often they may be seen with their heads thrust out from mother's pouch.

Kan'kakee', Ill., the capital of Kankakee County on the river of the same name, in northeastern Illinois, 55 miles south of Chicago. It is in a fine agricultural region, near considerable fields of coal, building-stone and bog-iron ore. Limestone is quarried also in the neighborhood. Here is the Eastern Illinois Hospital for the Insane. The city is provided with excellent schools, both public and parochial, besides having a seminary (St. Joseph's) and a conservatory of music. It has several fine churches, a public library and a Y M. C. A. building. Kankakee possesses excellent waterpower for its industries, prominent among them being piano, wagon and furniture factories, a knittingworks, sewing-machine and agricu1tural implement works and foundry products Besides, it has flour-mills, starch works, cigar factories, and makes bricks, tiles, mattresses, etc. Kankakee has the service of the Illinois Central, and Big Four Rail-roads. Population 13,986.

Kan'sas was admitted in 1861 as the 34th state of the Union. It is the central state, nearly equidistant between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans and from the northern and southern boundaries of the United States, and is bounded on the north by Nebraska, on the northeast and east by Missouri, on the south by Oklahoma and on the west by Colorado. Popularly, Kansas is