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See also:JAKOVA (also written DIAKOVA, GYAKOVO and GJAKOVICA) , a See also:town of See also:Albania, See also:European See also:Turkey, in the vilayet of See also:Kossovo; on the See also:river Erenik, a right-See also:hand tributary of the See also:- WHITE
- WHITE, ANDREW DICKSON (1832– )
- WHITE, GILBERT (1720–1793)
- WHITE, HENRY KIRKE (1785-1806)
- WHITE, HUGH LAWSON (1773-1840)
- WHITE, JOSEPH BLANCO (1775-1841)
- WHITE, RICHARD GRANT (1822-1885)
- WHITE, ROBERT (1645-1704)
- WHITE, SIR GEORGE STUART (1835– )
- WHITE, SIR THOMAS (1492-1567)
- WHITE, SIR WILLIAM ARTHUR (1824--1891)
- WHITE, SIR WILLIAM HENRY (1845– )
- WHITE, THOMAS (1628-1698)
- WHITE, THOMAS (c. 1550-1624)
White Drin. Pop. (19o5) about 12,000, Jakova is the See also:chief town of the Alpine region which extends from the Montenegrin frontier to the Drin and White Drin. This region has never been thoroughly explored, or brought under effective See also:Turkish See also:rule, on See also:account of the inaccessible See also:character of its mountains and forests, and the lawlessness of its inhabitants—a See also:group of two See also:Roman See also:Catholic and three Moslem tribes, known collectively as the Malsia Jakovs, whose See also:official representative resides in
and coloured figure taken from living See also:plants sent him two years previously from See also:Mexico. The See also:jalap plant has slender herbaceous See also:twining stems, with alternately placed See also:heart-shaped pointed leaves and See also:salver-shaped deep purplish-See also:pink See also:flowers. The underground sterns are slender and creeping; their See also:vertical roots enlarge and See also:form See also:turnip-shaped tubers. The roots are dug up in Mexico throughout the See also:year, and are suspended to dry in a See also:net over the See also:hearth of the See also:Indians' huts, and hence acquire a smoky odour. The large tubers are often gashed to cause them to dry more quickly. In their form they vary from spindle-shaped to ovoid or globular, and in See also:size from a See also:pigeon's See also:egg to a See also:man's fist. Externally they are See also:- BROWN
- BROWN, CHARLES BROCKDEN (1771-181o)
- BROWN, FORD MADOX (1821-1893)
- BROWN, FRANCIS (1849- )
- BROWN, GEORGE (1818-188o)
- BROWN, HENRY KIRKE (1814-1886)
- BROWN, JACOB (1775–1828)
- BROWN, JOHN (1715–1766)
- BROWN, JOHN (1722-1787)
- BROWN, JOHN (1735–1788)
- BROWN, JOHN (1784–1858)
- BROWN, JOHN (1800-1859)
- BROWN, JOHN (1810—1882)
- BROWN, JOHN GEORGE (1831— )
- BROWN, ROBERT (1773-1858)
- BROWN, SAMUEL MORISON (1817—1856)
- BROWN, SIR GEORGE (1790-1865)
- BROWN, SIR JOHN (1816-1896)
- BROWN, SIR WILLIAM, BART
- BROWN, THOMAS (1663-1704)
- BROWN, THOMAS (1778-1820)
- BROWN, THOMAS EDWARD (1830-1897)
- BROWN, WILLIAM LAURENCE (1755–1830)
brown and marked with small transverse paler scars, and internally they See also:present a dirty white
Jakova.
End of Article: JAKOVA (also written DIAKOVA, GYAKOVO and GJAKOVICA)
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