Kai-fung, capital of the Chinese province of Honan, near the southern bank of the Hoangho, where the great inundation occurred in 1887, long the chief settlement of the Jews in China. Among its 100,000 inhabitants are many Mohammedans.
Kai-fung
Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 6: Humber to Malta, p. 387
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