Page:The New International Encyclopædia 1st ed. v. 04.djvu/210

* CAPE VERDE ISLANDS. 172 CAPILLARIES. British and American vessels. Amber is found on the coasts, and great quantities of salt formed by solar evaporation are obtained from the la- goons on the shores, espeeially on the island of Sal. The connneree of the colony amounted, in 1900, to over ,$3,450,000, of which nearly $3,000,000 represented imports. The exports con- sist of raw products, hides, salt, cofl'ee, while the imports include all kinds of manufactured a-iticles. The chief ])orts are Porto I'raya, the capital, on the island of Santiago, and Porto Grande, which has the best harliur in the whole group, on the island of San Vicente. The group is administered by a governor. The population was 147,424 in IJIOO, including only 3Sa(J whites, the remainder consisting of 24,039 colored and 118,929 negroes. The islands were discovered in 1441 by the Genoese seafarers Antonio and Bar- tolommei di Xolli, and were annexed to Portugal in 1450. Consult : Ellis, West African Islands (London, 1S85) ; Fea, Dclle Isole del Capo Verde (Rome, 1899) ; Lima, "Rapport sur les lies du Cap Vert," in Becueil consuluire. Vol. CX. (Brus- sels, 1900). CAPE VINCENT. A village and port of entry in Jell'crsoii Count}-, X. Y., 25 miles west by nortli of W'atertown, on the Saint Lawrence River, and on the Rome, Watertown and Ogdens- burg Railroad (Map: X'ew York, D 1). It is popular as a summer resort, and contains a Unit- ed States fish-hatcliery and a Government cus- toms office. The village has considerable trade, the annual value of its exports being about $1.50.000, and of imports about .$250,000. Popu- lation, in 1890, 1324; in 1900, 1310. CAPE WRATH. The northwest extremity of Scotland, in Sutherlandshire. a pyramidal promontory 523 feet high (Map: Scotland. CI). It is noted for its wildness and grandeur, and lirojects into the Atlantic in latitude 58° 38' X. and longitude 4" 58' 5" W. Its lighthouse is visible 27 miles. CAP'GRAVE, Jon>- (1393-I4C4). An Eng- lisli hist<irian and theologian. He was born at Lynn, was ordained a priest about 1418, and was afterwards made provincial of the Augustinian order in England. His works include Latin com- mentaries on the Bible: a Life of Saint Katharine, in English verse; A Chronicle of England from the Creation to A.D. l-'ilT ; A Guide to the Antiquities of Rome; and De Illiistribiis Hen- ricis. The last work and the chronicle were edited by F. C. ITingestor, and publislied in the Rolls Series (London, 1858). CAPH'TOR. The original home of the Phil- istines, Dent. ii. 23. Amos ix. 7, who are there- fore called Caphtorim. Cien. x. 14, Dent. ii. 23. Crete is probably meant. Its importance during the ^lyceniean Age and its close relations to Egj-pt, as revealed by recent discoveries, render the identification natural. The Cherethites (q.v.) are so constantly coupled with the Phil- istines, or the Pelcthites, that they would seem to form a branch of the same family; and there is no good reason to doubt that the Cherethites are Cretans. The Zeus Cretagenes in Gaza points to a connection of the Philistines with Crete. That Caphtor is the same as the Egyptian Kaft (= Cilicia) is by no means certain. Even if the original text in .Ter. xlvii. 4 did not have Caphtor, and the word for 'island' is understood to mean Mediterranean coast lands, there is noth- ing in this passage to forbid the identification. CA'PIAS (Lat., you may take, or seize, from c« /«/'(, to take). A writ in a civil action order- ing the ollicer to whom it is intrusted to seize and take into custody the person of the de- fendant. Strictly speaking, a capias issues only in a common-law proceeding, as distinguished from one in equity. The abolition of imprison- ment for debt lias greatly diminislied the number of cases in which the defendant may be arrested in a civil action, but the riglit of an arrest in al- most all, if not all, of the .States .still exists where a willful and malicious injur.y or a fraudulent concealment of property, or proposed evasion of the jurisdiction of the court, is alleged. L'sually an affidavit must be presented on which to base the application for a writ of capias. Of the sev- eral kinds of this writ the most common are: (1) Tne capias ad rcspondcndutn, which directs the slieriir to arrest the defendant and hold him until a certain day at which he is to be brought before the court. Formerly this writ began eery ac- tion at law; now the cases in which the arrest may be made are limited and defined by the statutes of the States. When used alone the word capias usually refers to this form of writ, (2) Caiiifis ad satisfaciendum, a writ directing the officer to seize the party to the suit named (this may possibly he a plaintitT, though usiuilly a defendant), and bring his body on a fixed day liefore the cotirt to satisfy' a judgment already issued. It will be seen that this was at the end, as the former writ described was at the beginning, of all lawsuits under the common law; though the use of the writ is now much restricted by .statutory limitations, it is still a common-law process; it is familiarly known by the abbrevia- tion ca. sa. (3) Testatum capias, a supplemen- tary or second writ, issued when an ordinary capias has been placed in the hands of the sheritf and has been returned with the indorsement that the defendant could not be found. In such cases the new writ may be issued after a lajise of time without the introduction of other proof than the producing of the original. Xone of these writs are common in England or in the United States at present. See Akhest; Attachment: Execu- TIO.X. CAP'ILLARIES (Lat. capillaris, belonging to the hair, capilhis, hair, from caput, Iiead). The tubes which convey the blood from the left side of the heart to the various parts of the body are termed arteries, while those which return it to the right side of the heart, after it has dis- charged its various functions in the body, are known as veins. The name of capillary is given to the minute vessels which form the connection between the terminal branches of the arteries and the commencements of the trunks of the veins. These little vessels are of various sizes, some ad- mitting only one blood-corpnscle at a time, while others are large enough to allow of the simul- taneous passage of two. three, or more corpu-scles. Their average diameter is j^-^ to -^^^ of an inch : they are smallest in the brain, and larg- est in the marrow of bone. Their arrangement varies in different parts. In some cases, as in muscular tissue, they run for the most part parallel to <me another: in other cases (as around fat-cells) they have a spherical arrange- ment, and in the skin and in jiarts of the in- testines they form loops; and many other forms