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OKAPI. 772 O'KELLY. marked with purple-black horizontal stripes and blotches. Not luucli i^ known of the okapis except that they live in pairr^ in the forests of the north- ern Congo Basin. Consult Transucl ions and I'ro- ciediiiijs of the Zoological Societv of London for lliOl and VM>. OKAVANGO, o'ka-van'go. A river of Central Africa. See KuBAXGO. OKAYAMA, o'ka yii'ma. The capital of the prefecture of the same name and of the Province of Bizen, Japan, situated on the river Asahi, in the southwestern part of Hondo, 89 miles by rail west of Kobe (Map: Japan, CO). It has an old castle formerly inhabited by the daimio, and close to it a mag:nificent Japanese garden, rojiiihrtion, in 1898, 58,025. OKEECHOBEE, O'ke-chO'be. A lake in the southern part of Florida, the largest in the Southern United States (Map: Florida, Ho). It is 40 miles long and 30 miles wide, with an area of 1250 square miles and a maximum depth of 12 feet. It borders on the great Everglade swamps, and its shores are nearly everywhere inaccessible, consisting of marshy jungles, while _great parts of the lake itself are overgrown with weeds. Its waters are discharged partly by seej)- ing through the Everglades, parti}' through the Caloosa Kiver, connection with which has been facilitated by several canals which have reduced the size and depth of the lake, and drained large portions of the surrounding swamps, rendering them fit for agriculture. O'KEEFE, iVkef, John (1747-1833). An Irish playwright and actor. He was born in Dub- lin, and in his youth studied painting, but he be- gan writing comedies at the age of fifteen. A few years later he joined a theatrical company in his native city, and wrote meanwhile a number of small pieces, in which he appeared at his own benefits. His Tony Lumpkin in Town was pro- duced at the Ha.ymarket, London, in 1778, and gained for its author an English reputation. He .settled in London, and, though threatened with blindness, continued to write for the stage. His dramatic pieces by his own statement number sixty-eight, of which about fifty were performed, and some of them, such as the operatic farces, 'The lliyhUind lUrl and The Afirccablr Surprise, and the farce Wilt! Ouls, were unusually success- ful. In 171)8, when lie had beconic almost totally blind, he published 'The Dnuinilic Worhs of John O'Krcfe, ICsii.. in four volumes. For some years afterwards he Avas in straitened circumstances, till he was relieved by a jjcnsion from the Crown. In 1830 he went to live in Southampton, where he died on February 4, 1833. The next year, his daughter Adelaide, who was herself an au- thor, published a collection of his verse under the title of .1 Father's Legneii to Tlis Dntighter. O'Kcefe's plays, many of which have been sep- arately published, are deficient in characteriza- tion anil incident, and rough in diction, hut full of broad hunuir and rollicking spirits. Consult the Hecolhetions of the lAfe of .John O'Kcefe written liv himself (London. 18261: also as edited by'R. H. Stoddard (Xew York. 187(5); lione^te,' History of the Knfilish Stage (Bath, 18.321. OKEFINO'KEE SWAMP. One of tin- larg- est swamps in the liiited States, covering parts of Baker County, Fla., and of Ware, Clinch, and Charlton counties, iu Georgia (Map: Georgia, D 5). It consists of a series of swamps about 180 miles iu circuit, and having an area of 500.- 000 acres. It is tilled with pools and islands, some overgrown with bay trees, others with vines and brush. Moccasins and alligators are numer- ous. In the eastern portion is an o])en lake dotted with small filiating islands. OKEGHEM, o'ki gem, OKEKEM, OCKE- GHEM, OCKENHEIM (c.l420-c.l500) . One of tile great masters of the Netherlandish school of composition. He was born in East Flanders and was a chorister in the Antwerp Cathedral, and subsequently studied under Diifay. Accuracy with regard to dates considering the life and his- tory of Okeghem is impossible, lie was first mas- ter of music to the French King Charles Vll. ( 1454), and held similar important appointments under Louis XL As a teacher he is principally famous through his pupil Depr6s (q.v.), who in- troduced his master's style and music to the world at large, and greatly infiucnced modern (iernian church music through Luther, who was a con- temporary and admirer of Depr&s. Okeghem's music is still very much admired by musical scholars. He wrote nearly twenty masses, be- sides numerous motets, a ninefold canon in 36 parts, chansons, etc. See Music — Schools of CoiirosiTiox (section iii.). O'KEL'LY, Cii.vRLEs (1021-95). An Irish historian, born in Screen Castle, Galway. and educated at the Irish College in Saint Omcr, France. He took part in the Civil War in 1042, and when Cromwell won, O'Kelly with 2000 com- patriots followed the fortunes of Charles II. in France and Spain. They returned to England at the Restoration, and after the next revolution O'Kelly represented Roscommon in 1089 at the Dublin rarliament of James II., whom he also served as colonel of cavalry. He defended the island of Bofin against the Orange troops in 1091, but was forced to cajiitulate there, as well as from his later post, and he retired into private life at the Treaty of Limerick. His J/acari(E Exeiiiium (1G92), iin invaluable contemporary account of the revolution, was first printed by the Camden Society in 1841. and J. C. O'Cal- laghan (q.v.) ))repared an annotated edition of it for the Irish Archa-ological Society in 1850, while a third appeared under the title The Jacob- ite Witr in Ireland (1894). O'KELLY, James (c.l757-I826). A pioneer preacher of the ]Iethodist Episcopal Church and leader of the first secession from it. He was born in Ireland about 1757, came to America, and in 1778 began work as a traveling preacher. He was among the number who were ordained ciders at the org-.mization of the Methodist Epis- copal Church in 1784. He became presiding elder of the South Virginia district, and was a mem- ber of the first Council meeting in 1789. He took the lead in a movement opposing the an- tliority and life tenure of the bishops. O'Kelly shortly after the (ieneral Conference of 1792 withdrew from the connection, taking several other ministers with their congregations or parts of congregations with him, and formed a Church known as the Republican Methodist. His op- position to Methodism became more bitter, and lie denounced ordination as spurious. His seces- sion movement reached its height in 1795. caus- ing a loss of nearly 0.500 members to the Methodist