JU'BA. A river in Eastern Africa. formed by the junction of three main headstreams—the Ganana, the Web, and the Daua—and flowing southeastward. constituting the boundary be tween Italian Somaliland and British East Africa (Map: Africa. J 4). It enters the Indian Ocean at the town of Kismayu, close to the equator. There is a dangerous bar at its mouth. The stream is of uneven flow. The country of the lower Juba is generally level and arid. Little was known of its headstreams until the last decade of the nineteenth century. The Ganana is formed by the Ganale Gudda and the Ganale Guracha. The former rises at a high elevation in latitude 7° 30' N. and longitude 39° E.. in South ern Abyssinia. The Web has its source in the \Vorgoma Mountains.
JUBA (Lat., from Gk. 16flas, lobos). The name of two African kings whose history is associated with the contest between Caesar and Pompey and the earlier years of Augustus's reign. (1) Kix; of Numidia, who sided with the party of Pompey, and in B.C. 49 cut to pieces a Roman army under Curio, a friend of Caesar. He then aided the Pompeian leaders, Scipio and Cato: hut when the battle of Thapsus destroyed all their hopes (April 6, B.C. 46), Juba committed suicide. (2) Son of the pre ceding. taken to Rome as a boy by Caesar, and given a good education. Octavins (afterwards
Augustus Caesar) restored to him the kingdom of his father in we. 30, and gave him a daughter of Antonius and Cleopatra as his wife. Five years later, when Numidia was made a Roman province, Juba was compensated with the King dom of Mauretania, where he ruled until his death in B.C. 19. lie was the author of works on Libyan and Roman history, and on the history of painting• all of which are lost.
JUR/EtA (Neo-Lat., from Juba, ancient King of Nmnidia). A genus of palms of the same tribe as the cocoanut. Juba'a spectabilis is a native of Chile. which sometimes attains a height of 60 feet, and has a wide-spreading crown of pinnate leaves. This is cut off to obtain the sap which flows freely for several months if a fresh slice of the top be cut off each morning. A good tree will yield ninety gallons of sap, which when boiled down to a thick syrup receives the name of miel do palm& (palm-honey), and is an important article in the domestic economy of the country. The Jubaea is, in fact, the jaggery palm of Chile. The nuts are edible and the tree is useful in a number of other ways. See CAR YOTA.