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Kamel (or Camellus), George Joseph, born at Brünn, Moravia, a.d. 1661, a member of the company of Jesus a.d. 1682. By permission of his superiors, he left in 1688 for the Marianne islands and the Philippines. After having acquired a certain knowledge of botany and pharmacy, he established, at Manila, a pharmaceutical shop with the view of supplying medicaments gratis to the poor; he died there in 1706. Kamel communicated his botanical investigations to Ray and Petiver (see R.); consult also A. de Backer, Bibliothèque des Ecrivains de la compagnie de Jésus, iv. (Liége, 1858) 89.
Kämpfer, Engelbert. Born in 1651 at Lemgo, Westphalia; travelled as a physician in Persia (1683-1685), India, Java, Siam (1690), Japan (1690-1692); graduated in 1694 at Leiden, and died in 1716 at Lemgo. His work, Amœnitatum exoticarum fasciculi v., Lemgo, 1712, was intended as a specimen of more elaborate accounts of the various observations of the well-informed and zealous author. But only a History and description of Japan was published in German in 1777, by Dohm at Lemgo. Kämpfer’s unpublished manuscripts and collections were purchased, in 1753, by Sir Hans Sloane, for the British Museum.
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Kazwini, an Arabic geographer of the 13th century.—Ethé, Kazwini’s Kosmographie. Leipzig, 1869.
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Khurdadbah or Ibn-Chordadbeh, engaged, towards the end of the 9th century, in the police and postal administration of Mesopotamia, and collecting informations about the products and tributes of the empire of the Khalifes. They are translated by Barbier du Meynard: Le livre des routes et des provinces, par Ibn Khordadbeh. Journal asiatique, v. (1865) 227-296 and 446-527.
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Kosmas Alexandrinos Indikopleustes, a Greek merchant, a friend of Alexander Trallianus ([p. 752]), living in Egypt, travelling in India, and lastly, towards the middle of the 6th century, a monk. His monstrous work, Christiana topographia, contains, nevertheless, a small amount of valuable information. We referred to it as contained in Migne’s Patrologiæ cursus completus, series græca, t. lxxxviii. (1850) 374.