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(Encyclopedia) African buffalo: see cape buffalo. ...

(Encyclopedia) Kinnarodden: see Nordkyn, Cape, Norway. ...

(Encyclopedia) São Tiago: see Cape Verde.

(Encyclopedia) Makah mäkôˈ [key], Native North Americans who in the early 19th cent. inhabited Cape Flattery, NW Wash. According to Lewis and Clark they then numbered some 2,000. The Makah are the southernmost of...

(Encyclopedia) East India Company, Dutch, 1602–1798, chartered by the States-General of the Netherlands to expand trade and assure close relations between the government and its colonial enterprises in Asia. The c...

(Encyclopedia) Beresford, William Carr Beresford, Viscount, 1768–1854, British general. He served with distinction in Egypt (1801–3) and participated (1806) in the capture of Cape Colony (later Cape Province, So...

(Encyclopedia) Tordesillas, Treaty of tōrˌᵺāsēˈlyäs [key], 1494, agreement signed at Tordesillas, Spain, by which Spain and Portugal divided the non-Christian world into two zones of influence. In principle ...

(Encyclopedia) Gibraltar, Strait of jĭbrôlˈtər [key], Lat. Fretum Herculeum or Fretum Gaditanum, passage, c.36 mi (58 km) long, connecting the Atlantic and the Mediterranean, between southernmost Spain and north...

(Encyclopedia) Naze, the, cape: see Lindesnes, Norway. ...

(Encyclopedia) Nordkapp, promontory: see North Cape, Norway. ...