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* NARVA. 250 NARWHAL. ber of technical schools attadied to the ex- tensive cotton and woolen mills in the vicinity. There is a considerable trade in cotton and lumber. Population, in 1897, 10,577 — Germans, Esths, and Russians. The town was founded by the Danes in the thirteenth century, and, after being held for a short time by the Russians, passed to Sweden in 1581. Here, on Xovend)cr 30, 1700, an army of about 40,000 Russians under I'ctcv the (ireat was conii)letely defeated by some 8000 Swedes under Charles XII. In 1704 I'eter the Great made himself master of the town. NARVACAN, nar'va-kiin'. A town of North- ern Luzon. I'liiliiijiines, in the Province of Ilocos Sur. It is silualcd on the main road, and on the proposed northern railioad, a short distance from the coast and about I'i miles southeast of Vigan. It has a population of 10,500, being next to the capital the largest town of the province. NARVAEZ, nar-vii'ath. Paxfilo de (1470?- I52SI. A Sixuiish soldier and 'conquistador.' He was born in Valladolid, and came to America about 1498, and became lieutenant to the Gov- ernor of Cuba, Velazquez. In 1520 Narvaez was sent with a body of soldiers to reduce Cortes, then in Mexico, to submission. Land- ing at San Juan de Ulua, he was surprised one dark night (ilay, 1520), and seized in his camp by a party under Cortes himself, who then persuaded the soldiers to join in the conquest of Mexico. After about two years of imprisonment at Vera Cruz, Narvaez was per- mitted to return to Spain. There he secured permission to conquer and govern the territory from Florida to the Rio de Palmas, which is now known as the Rio Cirande. He sailed from San Lucas, .Tunc 17, 1527, with a lleet carrying si.x hunilred colonists and soldiers, priests, and negro slaves, with a few women. Stopping at Santo Domingo for horses and supjilies, about a quarter of his men deserted in order to join in the exodus toward Mexico and Peru. Thence he went to Santiago de Cuba, where he jiasscd the winter, ami toward the end of Feliruary or early in March. 1.128, he finally started lowanl Florida. After many mischances, on Ajiril 14th he an- chored near a bay which he nauied lUiIiia de la Cruz, and which has been identified with .pala- chee Hay and Tampa Bay. Finding little here- abouts to justify settlement, on May 1st the company, now numbering three hundred, started to march through the country, while the vessels were to follow the shore as far as the harbor of Panuco. Hopelesslv misled by ln<lian guides, lost in the tangled morasses, hungry and foot- sore, helpless against the harrying, pestering attacks of unseen natives, the Spaniards strug- gled along across the country until Scplenibcr 22d, when, at a point named by Xarvaez Rahia de Cavallos, two hundred and forty survivors embarkeil in five boats which they had built with such rude tools as could be fashioned from their weapons. They fcdlowed the coast until (October .31st) they' reached the mouth of a mighty river, whose stream carried them out to sea. This was the Mississippi. Here two of the boats, in one of which was N'arvaez, disappeared. The others made their way toward the shore, but n storm siqiarated them nurr more. Only one reached the land. For the fate of the survivors. see NviNEZ Cabeca de Vaca, Alvab. NARVAEZ, l^iiiu.N iLRiA, Duke of Valencia (1800-08). A Spanish general and statesman, born at Loja. in Andalusia. In early youth he fought in the war of lilieration against, the French. In 1822 Xarvaez acted with the Liberals and contributed to the suppression of the revolt in the Koyal Guards, lie withdrew to Loja in 182;! upon the triumph of the Reactionary Party, and lived there in retirement until the death ol Ferdinand ll. in 1833. He was engaged in the Bas(]ue provinces in 1834. then conmutnded a divi- sion luider Ksparlero, and in Xovember, 1830, routed the Carlist leader, Gomez, near Arcos. He won i)opularity in these campaigns, and was reganleil as the rival of Espartero. In 1.S38, by acts of great severity, he cleared the District of La ^lancha of brigands, and was appointed, i:i 1840, Captain-General of Old Castile, and general- in-chief of the army of reserve. He took part in the insurrection against Espartero that l)roke out at S<'ville in 1840, but was compelled to lice to France. He succeeded in 1843 in liringing alniut the overthrow of the Government of Espar- tero, and was made president of the Council and created Duke of Valencia in 1844. He entered upon a thorouglily reactionary policy and revised the Liberal Constitution of 1837. Petty insur- rections broke out, which the rigorous soldier- statesman repressed with an iron hand. But his dictatorial maimers alienated even his per.sonal friends, and his ilinistry was overtluown (Feb- ruary 10, 184G). After serving as special Am- bassador at the French Court, he returned to power in 1847, but soon afterwards quarreled with Queen Christina, and retired from ollice in 1851. In 1850. on the overthrow of the O'Doimcll Ministry, he again became president of thi' Coun- cil. Intrigues of the Court compelled bis resigna- tion in 1857. Once more in ])owcr in 18(i4. he was succeciled in the fidlowing year by O'Donnell. with whom he suppressed, in 18((1. a military revolt in Madrid. He supplanted 0"Donncll in the same year, and, despite the ellorts of O'Don- nell and Prim, retained power until his death, April 23. 1808. See ^^azade. Lcs revolutions d'Esjiaiiiii I I'aris, 1809). NARWHAL, niir'wol (from Swed.. Dan. narhval, Icel. nalwalr, probably from Icel. iiar. corpse 4" hrnlr. whale; so called from the pale sKn.L OP NAHiraAL. Tlic lowi>r]nw linfl bot»n reninvpd. ftinl the vii'w Is of t.hfl roof <»r till' iiMUith. wliifli liMstn'iMi partl.vi-ut away to sliow till' ili'f|) liiwrlloii lit thi' root of Hit- tusk (-liiuid Hiilc) ami tijt-' abortive tooth on the rlg))t~hand ekle of the upper jaxv. color of the skin). A cetacean of the family lielugida'. resembling the white whale in form and in the want of a dorsal fin, but renuirkably characterized by liaviiig no teeth at all, except