CAMERONIANS. See PRESBYTERIANS, REFORMED.
CAMEROONS, a river of Africa in Upper Guinea, falling into the bight of Biafra, about Lat. 4. N., Long. 9. 40. E. Cameroons peak, the highest point of the Cameroon mountains, being 13,000 feet above the sea, is in Lat. 4. 13. N., Long. 9. 10. E.
CAMILLI and CAMILLÆ, boys and girls who ministered in the religious rites and ceremonies of the Romans, and especially those employed in the sacrifices of the Flamen Dialis, or priest of Jupiter. They were required to be free-born, perfect and unblemished in form, and the children of living parents. The origin of the word camillus (or cas-millus, as it is sometimes written) has been connected with the Samothracian Kabiren-Hermes, Κάμιλος and Κάμιος; but its etymology is in fact quite uncertain.