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fidered by the people as the reigning- queen, and that her 

 children, according to the priority ofbirtli, fuccceded to the 

 fatlier's honours ; but, in default of ifTue by the favourite 

 princefs, the fillers of the Cacique, if no brothers furvived, 

 took phicc of the Cacique's own children by his other wives. 

 Tlie principal Cacique was diftinguiflied by regal ornamenfi, 

 and numerous attendants, ^^'hcn he travelled through his 

 dominions, he was coniinonly borne on men's Oioulders ; and 

 he was held in fucli veneration, that if he ordered any of liis 

 fubjefts to call tnemfelves headlong from a high rock, to 

 drown themfelves in the fca, merely at his own fovercign 

 pleafure, he was obeyed without a murmur ; oppofition to 

 tlie fupreme authority being coiifidered not only as unavail- 

 ing, but as impious. Their veneration extended even be- 

 yond death ; for when a Cacique died, his body was em- 

 bowelled, and dried in an oven, moderately heated, fo that 

 the bones and even the &in were preferved entire. The 

 corpfe was then placed in a cave with his ancellors ; and 

 thus they intended to render, not the name alone, but the 

 perfons alio, of their worthies immortal. If a Cacique died 

 in battle, and the body could not be recovered, they com- 

 pofed fongs in his pra'Te, which they taught to their chil- 

 dren, and thefe fongs formed a branch of thofe folcmnilics 

 which were called " Arietoes," confilling of hymns and 

 public dances, accompanied with mufical inflruments made 

 of fhells, and a fort of drum, the found of which was ht-ard 

 at a great diftance. Martyr relates (Decad.iii. lib. 9.) that 

 on the death of a Cacique, the moll beloved of his wives was 

 immolated at his funeral. But Oviedo (lib. v. c. j.) denies 

 that this cuftom was general among them. 



CACOBjE, in jiiiciait Geography, a people placed by 

 Ptolemy in India, on this fide of the Ganges. 



CACOCHYMIA, from ^.km,-, bail, and x"i^">i ;«'''t', or 

 humour, a word formerly employed by medical writers to 

 denote a f'lppofed morbid condition of the fluids of the 

 living body. 



CACODES, in the ^indent IVrkers of Medicine, a name 

 given to feveral kinds of matter difcharged from the human 

 body, which had an ill fmtll. The offenfive matter voided 

 fometimes by vomit has this name, as alio that evacuated by 

 flool, and the difcharge of foul ulcers. 



CACOETHES, or Cacoethia. See Malignant. 



CACONGO, in Geography, a kingdom of Africa, on the 

 coall of Loango, fituate between three confiderable ports, 

 much frequented by foreigners ; viz. Loango, Cabinda, and 

 Cacongo. The territory is in general flat, the air is more 

 falubrious than that of Congo or Angola, and the foil alfo 

 more fertile, on account of its frequent fhowers, and its 

 black mould, which, in the other adjacent kingdoms, is either 

 chalky or fandy. The inhabitants are likewife more civi- 

 lized, though not lefs fuperllitioudy addifted to the fame 

 heathenifh rites, than tiieir neighbours. They bear the cha- 

 racter of a treacherous, fraudulent, turbulent, and cowardly 

 race ; but they are much employed in traffic with the Euro- 

 peans, and efpecially the Dutch, from whom they purchafe 

 a great variety of European goods, as coarfe cloths, knit 

 caps, hatchets, and other iron tools, linen, and other com- 

 modities, which they exchange for (laves at Congo, Angola, 

 and other African Hates. This country is governed by its 

 own hereditary princes, but under the protedlion of the kings 

 of Loango, to whom they were formerly vaflals, though 

 they have fince fhaken off the yoke. The chief town is of 

 the fame name, and it is fituated in S. lat. 4'^ 45'. E. long. 



Cacongo, one of the chief rivers of the above kingdom, 

 the others being the Kaja and the Cabinda. It runs 4 

 leagues S. of the Kaja, and 7 to the N. of the Cabinda, and 



is faid to be navigable by boats of lo tons burden. This 

 river runs through alinoil the whole length of the king- 

 dom from call to wed, and after a courfe of about 80 or 9Q 

 miles, falls into the fca, new the town of Cacongo. About 4 

 miles from its mouth is the town, or rather village of Mc- 

 Kmba. where the fea makes a kind of femicircular bay, 

 which affords a convenient road for the vcfTtls ihnt traffic 

 thither, the whole coaft between the Cacongo and Zaire 

 being extremely dangerous and full of rorks and fhe^vcs. 

 1'hc lands on each fide are fertile and delightful, and abound 

 with elephants' teeth, which the Membates, who arc fituated 

 on the other fide of the Zaire fetch and carry to the port of 

 Pinda, where the rovtug\iefe, or any other Europeans, buy 

 and cxp<M't them. 



CACOORS, in Uolany, a fpecics of Mimosa, which fee. 

 Tlic feeds (jf this plant are mentioned by fir Hans Sloane as 

 being thrown afliore on the Hebrides and Orkncya. See 

 Molucca Bean. 



C.^COPHONIA, compounded of xKx.o;, evil, and ^iw, 

 voice, ill Grammar and Rhetoric, the meeting of two letters, 

 or fylUibles, or even of two words, which yield an uncouth 

 and difagrecable fi)und. 



Cacophonia, in Medicine, denotes a vice or depravation 

 of the voice, or fpeech ; of which there are two fpecics, 

 aphonia and dyfphonia. 



CACOPHONY, Gr. in Muftc, the combination of many 

 founds ill chofen, or out of tune, noil'e. 



CACORLA, in Geography, a little town in Spain, in the 

 country of Jaen, belonging to the archbifliop ol Toledo, 4 

 leagues E. of ITbeda. 



CACOSIN, a town of the i.l.uid of Cuba, co miles 

 N.N.W. of Bayamo. 



CACOUCIA, in Botany. La Marck Eiicyc. Ilhift. 

 Pl..;/;9. Aublct. Guian.p.4r;o. 1. 179. Juir.j^o. (Schouf. 

 b;Ea, Willdenow S'57.) Clafs and order, dccandria momgynia. 

 Nat. ord. Onagrd:]\i^. Myrti Lam. 



Gen. Ch. Cal. luperior, bell-lhaped, coloured, five-pointed, 

 deciduous. Cor. petals five, fharply egg-diapcd, infcrted at 

 the divilions of the calyx. Stam. filaments very long, in- 

 ferred on the calyx below the infertion of the petals ; antlicrs 

 ovate. P'lft. germ inferior, angular ; ftyle fimple, as long as 

 the (lamens ; lligma acute. Peric. a kind of berry, five- 

 angled, fomewhat fplndle-fhaped, almoll woody, pulpy 

 within, covered with a white fl<in or aril. 



E(r. Ch. Calyx bell-fhaped, five-parted, bearing the corolla ; 

 petals five ; berry five-angled, one-feedcd ; feed ;:rillcd. 



Obf. Neariy allied to Combrctum and Fuchfia, but differ- 

 ing in the fruit. 



Species, C. coccinea. A perennial rtirub, with a fteni 

 about fix or feven inches in diameter, branched, climbing to 

 the top of the hiyhell trees, from which its branches liang 

 down, clothed with leaves and flowers. Leaves alternate, 

 ovate, acuminate, very entire, veined, green, firm, with an 

 even furface, on very fliort petioles. F/oiuers fcarlet, feffile, 

 fcattered in long terminal fpikes, with a long ftraighl 

 pointed brafte to each flower. La Marck. A native of Cay- 

 enne. 



CACTI, the third natural order in the fourteenth clafs of 

 Juffieu, with the following charader. Calys fuperior, di- 

 vided at the apex. Petals definite or indefinite, infcrted at 

 the top of the calyx. Stamens definite or indefinite, with 

 the faiTie infertion as the petals. Germ inferior, fimple ; 

 ftyle fingle ; fligma divided. Berry inferior, one-celled, 

 many-feeded ; the feeds attached to its inner furface. Stem 

 (hrubby or arborcfcent ; lea-ves alternate or none. It contains 

 only two genera, Ribes, with definite petals and ftamens, and 

 Caffus, with petals and ftamens indefinite. Juflieu obferves 



that 



