HUPA, A tribe of Athabascan stock, originally occupying a number of small villages on the lower Trinity River. california. and now gathered au the Hupa Valley lla.eervation in the same region. Like some of the ',tuck, they were formerly of warlike and aggressive char acter. and are said to have brought a number of surrounding tribes under regular tribute, be sides compelling them to a certain extent to use their language. In their pristine condition, they subsisted chiefly upon salmon, dried and smoked, and acorns made into tlour and porridge. They were noted for the variety and beauty of their basketry. They now number not including some remote tribes.
H0-PEH, (Chin.. Lake North). One of the eighteen provinces of China proper. sit uated in the very centre of the country. and surrounded by the and impor tant provinces of Hu-nan on the south, Sze-ehuen on the west. Shen-si and ITo-nan on the north. and Ngan-hwei on the east. The Yang-tse from west to east runs through its southern pa rt. while the Han, in its tortuous course from the north west. irrigates its fields and provides a splen did waterway for its commerce. 'the province is mountainous in the north. twine pene trated with spurs and outlines from the Ta•pa shan and Fu-niu mouutains. Toward the south
west it is low-lying, and is covered with many marshes, shallow lakes. and lagoons. the re mains of that portion of the Tneg-ting Lake which formerly spread much farther north than it does now. These sheets of water have been connected by navigable ditches. and serve as a safe port cut for the smaller (lass of native junks from Shashi (on the Yang-Ise opposite the entrauee to the to IInnkow, or to towns farther tip the Han.
The evea of the province is estimated at square miles, and its population at 2S,3110,000.
For administrative purposes it is divided into 10 fn. or department:. 1 stilt-department, CO hien (or hsien) or prefectures, and 10 suhprefec Ores. The capital is Wu-ehang, on the Yang-tse, opposite llankow, here the Futai or Governor ot the province, and the Tsung-tuli or Gov ernor-General of the united province• of Hu nan and reside. flow of the towns arc treaty ports— 1 lankow , and 1-ehang nu the left' hank of the Yang-tse, There are several extensive eoaliields in the province, and both coal and iron are now being actively mined by modern methods.