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ments, having migrated due W. from 

 the valleys of the N. Congo affluents 

 about 1850, driving the weaker ab- 

 original negroes before them. They 

 are hunters and fishers, using cross- 

 bows and throwing-knives, and are 

 adept potters and ironworkers. The 

 men wear bark waistcloths, the 

 women grass girdles. 



Fanmakers' Company. Lon- 

 don city livery company, incor- 

 porated April 

 19, 1709. Its 

 offices are at 19, 

 Great Winches- 

 ter St., E.C. 

 Fannich. Loch 

 or lake of Ross 

 and Cromarty, 

 Scotland. Near 

 the centre of 

 the county, it is 



Fanmakers' 

 Company arms 



drained by Fannich Water (6J m. 

 long). The Fannich Mts. (Sgurr 

 Mor, 3,637 ft. ) and Fannich Forest 

 (20,000 acres) lie to the N. of the 

 lake, which is 6 m. long and about 

 1 m. broad. 



Fanning. Coral island in the 

 Pacific Ocean, lying due S. of the 

 Hawaiian Islands in lat. 3 50' N. 

 and long. 159 20' W. Administra- 

 tively it is annexed to the Gilbert 

 and Ellice Islands Colony, and is a 

 station of the submarine cable 

 between Australia and Vancouver. 

 It exports mother-of-pearl, and 

 there are guano deposits. Area, 

 15 sq m. Pop. 150. The name is 

 also applied to a neighbouring 

 group, viz. Christmas, Jarvis, 

 Washington, and Palmyra, the 

 last being claimed by the U.S.A. 

 The total land area is about 260 sq. 

 m. They were discovered in 1798 

 by Edmund Fanning. 



Fanning, EDMUND (1737-1818). 

 American soldier. Born at Long 

 Island, New York, he graduated at 

 Yale in 1757. He became a lawyer 

 in N. Carolina, and occupied various 

 posts in the local government, 

 where his malpractices and sub- 

 servience to the home government 

 earned for him unpopularity. In 

 1774 he was made surveyor-general, 

 and in 1777 he raised a regiment 

 to combat the revolution. Colonel 

 in the British army in 1782 and 

 governor of Prince Edward Island 

 in 1787, he became major-general 

 in 1794 and general in 1808. In 

 those years he did some voyaging 

 in the Pacific. He died in London. 

 Feb. 28, 1818. 



Fanning, JOHN THOMAS (1837- 

 1911). American engineer. Born at 

 Norwich, Conn., he was there edu- 

 cated. He became an engineer, but 

 left his profession to serve the 

 North in the Civil War. Returning 

 to his work, he was for nearly fifty 

 years one of the leading authorities 

 on hydraulics, being concerned in 



the construction of numerous water- 

 works and similar undertakings in 

 the U.S. A. He was consulting engi- 

 neer to a large number of schemes 

 for obtaining water and chief en- 

 gineer of the water-power company 

 at St. Anthony. His work, A 

 Treatise on Hydraulic and Water 

 Supply Engineering, 1877, was long 

 the most authoritative American 

 book on the subject. 



Fannius, GAIUS. Roman an- 

 nalist. He served in Africa, where 

 he and Tiberius Gracchus were the 

 first to mount the walls of Carthage 

 146 B.C., and in Spain 142. Through 

 the influence of Gaius Gracchus he 

 obtained the consulship 122, but 

 when the former proposed to confer 

 full citizenship upon the Latins, 

 Fannius opposed him in a famous 

 speech. Orator, advocate, and 

 student of philosophy, Fannius 

 was best known for his Annales, a 

 history of Rome from the earliest 

 days down to his own times. The 

 work enjoyed a high reputation, 

 and was used by Plutarch in his 

 Lives of the Gracchi. 



Fanny's First Play. Comedy 

 by Bernard Shaw. It was first pro- 

 duced at The Little Theatre, April 

 19, 1911, where it ran for 624 per- 

 formances, and afterwards at The 

 Kingsway, Feb. 13, 1915. 



Fano. Island of Denmark. It 

 lies off the S.W. coast of Jutland, 

 and its N.E. point faces Esbjerg 

 on the mainland. It is 11 m. long 

 and from 2 m. to 3 m. broad. There 

 are three small towns on the 

 island : Fano, a health resort on 

 the W. coast ; Nordby, on the N.E. 

 coast ; and Sonderho, in the S. 

 Fishing is the main industry. Area, 

 20 sq. m. Pop. 3,000. 



Fano (anc. Fanum Fortunae). 

 City and seaside resort of Italy, in 

 the prov. of Pesaro e Urbino. It 

 stands on the Adriatic, 8 m. by rly. 

 S.E. of Pesaro. It is enclosed by 

 medieval walls, with bastions facing 

 the sea. Its cathedral and churches 

 contain many pictures by old mas- 

 ters. The town possesses a fine 

 theatre, formerly a palace, the re- 

 mains of a triumphal arch of Au- 

 gustus, and a palace of the Mala- 

 testa. Fishing is the chief occupa- 

 tion of the inhabitants, and there is 

 trade in corn, oil, and silk. The old 

 harbour has silted up, and shipping 

 is now conducted through a canal 

 to the sea. Here, in 1514, the first 

 printing press with Arabic type was 

 set up. The Roman city owed its 

 origin to a temple of Fortune com- 

 memorating the defeat of Hasdru- 

 bal on the Metaurus. Pop. 26,928. 



Fan-palm (Livistona). Genus 

 of trees of the natural order Pal- 

 mae. They have large, fan-shaped, 

 plaited leaves, and are natives of 

 Eastern Asia, Malaya, and Austral - 



Sir E. Fanshawe, 

 British soldier 



After Francis Dodd 



Fan-palm. Foliage of Livistona chinensis 

 asia. The best-known species are 

 L. australis, from Eastern Austra- 

 lia, and L. chinensis, from S. China. 

 Fanshawe, SIR EDWARD ARTHUR 

 (b. 1859). British soldier. Born 

 April 4, 1859, and educated at 

 Winchester, in 

 1878 he entered 

 the Royal Ar- 

 tillery, serving 

 in the Afghan 

 War of 1878-80 

 and in Egypt 

 in 1885. In 1903 

 he became a 

 lieutenant- 

 colonel and in 

 1909 was put in 

 charge of the 

 artillery of the 6th division. When 

 the Great War broke out he was 

 commanding the artillery of a 

 Territorial division, but in Sept., 

 1914, he went to France at the head 

 of a regular brigade, the 6th. In 

 1915 he took command of the 

 cavalry corps. In 1918 he com- 

 manded the 5th corps, and in 1917 

 was knighted. 



Fanshawe, SIR RICHARD (1608- 

 66). English diplomatist and writer. 

 Born at Ware Park, Hertford- 

 shire, after 

 travelling in 

 France and 

 Spain, he was 

 appointed i n 

 1635 secretary 

 to the embassy 

 at Madrid. 

 About 1644 he 



became secre- sir R. Fanshawe, 

 t a r y to the English diplomatist 



prince of Wales After Harding 



and in 1648 was made treasurer of 

 the navy under Prince Rupert. He 

 was created a baronet in 1650. After 

 the Restoration he sat in Parlia- 

 ment for Cambridge University 

 from 1661 until his death, and 

 undertook various missions to 

 Spain and Portugal. He translated 

 the Lusiad of Camoens, 1655, and 

 Guarini's Pastor Fido, 1647. He 

 died at Madrid, June 26, 1666. 



Fan Tan. Chinese gambling 

 game. The implements for playing 

 consist of a bowl full of beans or 

 counters and an oblong card, 

 placed on a table, the corners of 

 which are numbered, or assumed 

 to be numbered, from 1 to 4 : the 

 lower right hand corner being 1. 



