YAQUI 



GIJS-1 



YARMOUTH 



at a cost of $100,000, a Carnegie Library, the 

 State Hospital for the Insane, Sacred Heart 

 Hospital and Forresters' Park. Farming and 

 stock raising are the chief interests of the vi- 

 cinity, of which Yankton is the trade center. 

 The city industrial plants include flour mills 

 and nurseries, and manufactories of cement and 

 cigars. Yankton was settled in 1862 and was 

 of the territory of Dakota until 1883. 

 It became a city in that year, and in 1910 

 adopted the commission form of government. 

 The population in 1910 was 4,189; the state 

 census of 1915 reported 4.780. H.A.R. 



YAQUI, yah'ke, a North American tribe of 

 Piraan stock, representing a well-advanced 

 stage of civilization. They live in villages in 

 the Mexican state of Sonora, and number about 

 13,000. The Yaquis are an energetic and coura- 

 geous people. 

 The men in their 

 communities cul- 

 tivate corn, to- 

 bacco, beans and 

 cotton, and the 

 women arc skilled 

 weavers; also, in 

 the country about 

 their settlement 

 these Indians are 

 employed in min- 

 ing, stock raising 

 and other indus- 

 tries. At various 

 times they have 

 evolted against 

 the Mexican gov- 

 ernment, and in 1900 a large number of women 

 and children were deported to Yucatan. 



YARKAND, yahrkahnd', an important city 

 in Chinese Turkestan, situated in the western 

 part of the country, about 100 miles southeast 

 of Kashgar, at an elevation of 3,850 feet above 

 sea level (see map, Asia, opposite page 417). 

 It rivals the city of Kashgar in opulence, and 

 i- -till an important center of trade with 

 Northern India, though railways have consid- 

 erably diminished its commercial prestige. The 

 city, which is surrounded by a wall and a moat, 

 is entered by several gates. The houses are 

 mostly one-story huts, built of clay and stone, 

 and the streets are intersected by canals and 

 aqueducts. Interesting features include Fort 

 Yengisher, Mohammedan colleges, bazars and 

 mosques. The inhabitants, largely of Turkish 

 stock, number between 75,000 and 100,000, and 

 are largely engaged in stock raising and in the 



manufacture of carpets, woolens, silks, linens, 

 cottons and dyes. 



YARMOUTH, yahr'muth, the county town 

 of Yarmouth County, Nova Scotia, at the 

 southwest extremity of the province. It is one 

 of the most important seaports in the Maritime 

 Provinces, has regular steamship connection 

 with Boston, Halifax and Saint John, and is 

 the second largest exporter of lumber in Nova 

 Scotia. It is the terminus of the Dominion 

 Atlantic and the Halifax & Southwestern rail- 

 ways, both of which carry the products of 

 Western Nova Scotia to this shipping point. 

 By rail it is 215 miles southwest of Halifax, and' 

 by water it is 240 miles northeast of Boston, 

 which receives the greater part of its truth 1 . 

 Population in 1911, 6,600; in 1916, about 7,000. 



Yarmouth's commercial importance is due 

 partly to its great trade in fresh fish and lum- 

 ber, and also to its trade in its own manufac- 

 tures. It is a large exporter not only of fresh 

 fish, but also of boned fish, canned lobster, lini- 

 ment and other fish products. It has a large 

 woodworking factor}', a steel shipbuilding and 

 boiler plant, a shoe factory, several foundries 

 and machine shops, and largest of all, a cotton 

 mill which manufactures duck and sailcloth. 



In the days of wooden ships, Yarmouth was 

 known as the town which owned more ships, 

 based on population, than any other port in the 

 world. It is now known also as a town of lovely 

 homes and beautiful surroundings. The haw- 

 thorn hedges are the pride of the town, and the 

 roads of the vicinity are the delight of auto- 

 mobile tourists. Yarmouth was founded in 

 1761, and was named for Yarmouth, Mass. It 

 was incorporated as a town in 1890. 



YARMOUTH, or GREAT YARMOUTH, a 

 seaport of Norfolk, England, on the east coast, 

 at the mouth of the Yare. It is the center of 

 the country's herring fisheries, and -the curing 

 of the famous Yarmouth bloaters is an industry 

 of importance. Dickens in his David Copper- 

 field lets his readers feel, through little David, 

 the salty, fishy air of the place, and the rough 

 charm of its seafaring folk. The town has a 

 fishermen's hospital and a sailors' home, and 

 there are a number of handsome buildings, in- 

 cluding the twelfth-century Church of Saint 

 Nicholas. Dominating features of the town are 

 its long quays and the narrow lanes, or "rows," 

 145 in number, which run at rifht angles to 

 them. The houses on these straight lanes were 

 once the homes of wealthy tradesmen, but to- 

 day are inhabited by the poorer classes. Dur- 

 ing the War of the Nations Yarmouth suffered 



