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4. Kabyles, name of one of the two chief divisions (the Arabs being the other) of native Mohammedans in Algeria.

Pagre 132. — i. Denys le Tyran (about 430-367 b.c.), Dionysius, tyrant of Syracuse, in Sicily. It is stated that he was an able ruler but very suspicious, and that the rock-hewn underground prisons attributed to him vvere constructed as a précaution against traitors and conspirators.

2. protée, proteus, a genus of aquatic eel-shaped amphibians, typical of the family Proteidœ.

3. la Carniole, Carniola, a province in the western part of Austria- Hungary, noted for its grottos and subterranean lakes.

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