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KAR.ABAZARI, a town of Afiatic Turkey, in Na- 

 tolia ; 20 miles W. of Kiangari. 



KARABE. See Carabe. 



KARAI3EI-SHEH, in Ga>^rjp/iy, a town of Perfia, in 

 the province of Mazanderaii, on the coall of the Cafpian 

 fea ; 60 miles E. of Fehrabad. 



KARA-BIGNAR, a town of Afiatic Turkey, in Ca- 

 ramania ; 20 miles S. of Akferai. 



KARABIOW, a town of P»land, in Podolia ; 12 miles 

 N. of Kaminiec. 



KARABOA, a town of Afiatic Turkey, in Natoha ; 

 24 miles W. of Artaki. 



KARABOGAS, a bay on the E. fide of the Cafpian 

 fea, 40 miles long and 3 j broad, the water of which is very 

 bitter. N. lat. 41 45'. E. long. 54 44'. _ 



KARABOULAKI, a town ot Georgia, in the province 

 of Carduel : 4J miles S. of Gori. 



KARABUNAR, a town of Afiatic Turkey, in Cara- 

 mania ; 40 miles E. of Cogni. 



KARAC, a town of Arabia Petrsa, on the river Safia ; 

 90 miles S. of Jerufalem. N. lat. 30 44'. E. long. 35^ 



K.AR.ACAL, or C.VRACALL.\, a town of Walachia ; 

 60 miles S.W. of Buch.irell. 



KiARACUZ, a town of Perfian Armenia; 22 niiles 

 E.S.E. of Erivan. 



KARADER.A. a town of Afiatic Turkey, in Diar- 

 bekir ; 10 miles S.S.E. of Merdin. 



KARAD.IEHLAR, a town of Afiatic Turkey, in Na- 

 tolia ; ^6 miles S.W. of Calhimena. 



KARADJUK, a town of Natolia ; 20 miles S.E. of 

 Degnizlu. 



KARADRO, a town of Afiatic Turkey, in Carama- 

 nia ; 50 miles W.S.W. of Selefkc. 



KARADSHELAR, a town of Natolia; 40 miles N. 

 of Angui-a. 



KAR AEVI AN, a town of Ruffia, in the government of 

 Perm ; 64 miles S.S.W.' of Ekaterinograd. 



KARAGANSKOI, Cai'e, a cape on the E. coaft of 

 the Cafpian fea. N. lat. 44' 20'. 



■ KARAGINSKOI, an ifiand in the N. Pacifie ocean, 

 near the N.E. coall of Kamtfchatka, about So miles in cir- 

 cumference. N. lat. 59'. E. long. 162' 14'. 



KARAGODE, a town of the iflund of Ceylon; S6 

 miles S. of Candy. 



KARAGOL, a town of Grand Buchaiia, feated on a 

 lake ; 24 miles S.W. of Bucharia. 



KARAH, a town of Arabia, in the province of Nedsjed ; 

 300 mi!e5 E. of Mecca. 



KARAHAUM, a town of Bengal ; 13 miles N.W. of 

 Toree. 



KARAHISSAR, a town of Afiatic Turkey, in Cara- 

 mania ; 38 miles S. of Yurcup. See Aphio.m, S:c. 



KARA-HOTUN, a town of Tartary, in the country 

 of the Monguls ; 120 miles N.W. of Peking. N. lat. 41 = 

 16'. E. long. 121 53'. 



KARAJIN, a town of Poland, in the palatinate of 

 Braclaw, near the Bog ; 50 miles S.E. of Braclaw. 



K ARAIS, a town of Sweden, in the province of Save- 

 h«; ^j miles N.N.W. of NylJut. 

 KARAITES. Sec Cahaites. 



KARAKA.Il, in Geognydy . a town of Georgia, in the 

 province of Kaket ; Sonnies S.E. of Teilis. 



KARAKAKOOA Bay, a bay on theW. fide of the 

 idaud of Owhyhce, one of the Sandwich iflands, fituated in 

 a diltrid called Akona. It is about a mile in depth, and 

 bounded by two low points of land, at the diftai^ce of half 



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a league, and bearing S.S.E. and N.N.\V. from each other. 

 On the N. point, which is flat and barren, (lands the village 

 of Kowrowa ; and in the bottom of the bay, near a grove 

 of tall cocoa-nut trees, there is another village of a more 

 confiderable fize, called Kakooa ; between theip runs a high 

 rocky cliff, inacceffible from the fca-fhore. On the S. fide, 

 the coaft, for about a mile inland, has a rugged appearance ; 

 beyond which the country rifes with a gradual afcent, and is 

 overfpread with cultivated inclofures, and groves of cocci- 

 nut-trees, where the habitations of the natives are fcattered in 

 great numbers. The fiiore, all round the bay, is covered with 

 a black coral rock, which makes the landing very dangerous 

 in rough weather, except at the village of Kakooa, where 

 is a fine fandy beach, with a " morai," or biirying-place, at 

 one extremity, and a fmall well of frelh .vattr at the other. 

 This bay, appearing to Capt. Cook a proper place to reSt 

 the fliips, and lay in a freih fupply of water and provifions, 

 he caufed them to move on the N. fide, about i of a mile 

 from the fiiore, Kowrowa bearing N.\V. This was in Ja- 

 nuary 1779 The natives came from the fiiore in ailoiiifliing 

 numbers, and exprefl'ed their joy b) finging and (houting, 

 and exhibiting a variety of wild and extravagant geftures. 

 Capt. Cook was received by the chiefs of the ifiand with a 

 refpeit, approaching to adoration ; and the natives, though 

 they inanifefted a propenllty to pilfering, treated him and 

 his companions witli a great degree of hofpitallty. On the 

 4th cf February, the ftiips unmoored and failed out of the 

 bay, being followed on their departure by a great number 

 of canoes. It was the defign of Capt. Cook to finiih the 

 furvey of this ifiand before he vifited the other iflands, in 

 hope>i of finding a road better flickered than the bay which 

 was now left. But the weather becoming fqually and tem- 

 pelluous, it was found necefiuiry to return to this bay ; 

 where the natives manifefted a very different difpofition from 

 that which they had difcovered on the firft vifit. They nowr 

 appeared hollilc, and adverfe to every exercife of hofpitality. 

 Several circnmftances occurred, which ferved to widen the 

 breach between the illanders and Capt. Cook ; and it was 

 found neceflary to recur to the ufe of arms. For fubfequent 

 particulars, and an account of the unfortunate death of the 

 commander, fee his biographical article. 



KARAKALPAKS, a tribe of Tartars Uttled in Ruf- 

 fia, who called themfelves Kara-Kiptfchaks, and inhabit 

 the diftrifts on the Syr Darya, a confiderable river fpring- 

 ing from the lake Aral. They divide themfelves, according 

 to their poiition, into the upper and the nether horde. Pre- 

 vious to the origin of the Kazanian khanate (fee Kaz.vn), 

 they removed to the Volga ; where, prefied by the Nogays, 

 they marched like the Chivinfes, not as other nations did to 

 the weft, but back towards the eaft, into their prelent feats. 

 About the year 1742 the nether horde, then conliiUng of 

 30,000 kibitkas, implored the Ruflian protection ; but 

 the Kirghifes, againll whom ihey were dcfirous of fecuring 

 themfelves, took fuch fangiiinary vengeance, that the greater 

 part of them was exterminated, and tliofe who remained 

 were obliged to return to the upper horde. As they feldom 

 have the courage to fice from the Kirghifian captivity, 

 their number in Ruflia is very fmall. Tookc's Ruif. Emp. 

 vol. i. 



KARAKAN, a town of Curdifian; 10 miles S.W. of 

 Beths. 



KARAKECHIS, a town of P.-rfian Armenia; 48 

 miles N.E. of Erivan. 



KARAKERMAN, a town of Earopearj Turkey, in 

 Bulgaria ; 36 miles S.S.E. of Ifmail. N. lat. 44 45'. E, 

 l.ng. 29 ' 58'. 



KARAKITA, a fmall iilaud in the Eail Indian fea, be- 



lunging 



