of Navarre,
married Philip, count of Evreux (see NAVARRE).

In the 13th century the throne of Constantinople was occupied by a
branch of the Capetians. Peter, grandson of King Louis VI., obtained
that dignity in 1217 as brother-in-law of the two previous emperors,
Baldwin, count of Flanders, and his brother Henry. Peter was succeeded
successively by his two sons, Robert and Baldwin, from whom in 1261 the
empire was recovered by the Greeks.

The counts of Dreux, for two centuries and a half (1132-1377), and the
counts of Evreux, from 1307 to 1425, also belonged to the family of the
Capets,--other members of which worthy of mention are the Dunois and the
Longuevilles, illegitimate branches of the house of Valois, which
produced many famous warriors and courtiers.

CAPE TOWN, the capital of the Cape Province, South Africa, in 33 deg.
56' S., 18 deg. 28' E. It is at the north-west extremity of the Cape
Peninsula on the south shore of Table Bay, is 6181 m. by sea from London
and 957 by rail south-west of Johannesburg. Few cities are more
magnificently situated. Behind the bay the massive wall of Table
Mountain, 2 m. in length, rises to a height of over 3500 ft., while on
the east and west projecting mountains enclose the plain in which the
city lies. The mountain to the east, 3300 ft. high, which projects but
slightly seawards, is the Devil's Peak, that to the west the Lion's Head
(over 2000 ft. high), with a lesser height in front called the Lion's
Rump or Signal Hill. The city, at first confined to the land at the head
of the bay, has extended all round the shores of the bay and to the
lower spurs of Table Mountain.

The purely Dutch aspect which Cape Town preserved until the middle of
the 19th century has disappeared. Nearly all the stucco-fronted brick
houses, with flat roofs and cornices and wide spreading _stoeps_, of the
early Dutch settlers have been replaced by shops, warehouses and offices
in styles common to English towns. Of the many fine public buildings
which adorn the city scarcely any date before 1860. The mixture of races
among the inhabitants, especially the presence of numerous Malays, who
on all festive occasions appear in gorgeous raiment, gives additional
animation and colour to the street scenes. The mosques with their
cupolas and minarets, and houses built in Eastern fashion contrast
curiously with the Renaissance style of most of the modern buildings,
the medieval aspect of the castle and