Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1850-10-19
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THE NEpAULESE AMBASsADoR-

Truly he is a gallant, beautiful crea.
ture to look at-thoroughly oriental
which Ithink is the most perfect type
OF beauty-where the finest symme,
try of form is combined with the pu-
rest and most serene composure OF
expression. Every feature of him
seems fine; the eye, particularly, is
clear, full, and brilliant, with an inner
play, and a shooting glance and CO.
ruscation, like star, when the sky
is one still, cloudless azure. His CO.
lor is light bronze, which only gives
depth and intensity to his counten-
ance. He has very youthful ,ap-
pearance, and is not, | believe, much
above twenty. His stepis clean and
elastic; his bearing high, remote from
us, as it were, like that of prince
who feels as il it were something TO
have been born under the shadow of
the mighty Himalayas
His dress dazzles and overcomes us,
like a summer cloud. What are we
dull, commonplace Europeans, COM
pared to that, with our canlsterof a
hat, our scarecrow of a coat, and our
straw-wisps for the under man? We
shrink away to insigni6cance before
this gorgeous figure, like those mis-
cradle ninth-parts of man who have
bungled us into the thing which we
now are. WMG! how he stalks
past us with brave, fierce splendour,
like panther issuing from his own
mountain gorges. On his head he
wears white silk cap, closely fit
ting, thick set aud glittering all over
with pearl, loops of beads like en-
erald colored-stone enc;rcling his
temples, and tie long feather ofthe
bird ofparadise waving in front, fixed
in a large, curiously-shaped silver
stud, which CLEANS right over his
forehead. He has robe or tunic of
rich, deep blue velvet, reaching below
the knee, with loose scarlet trowsers;
and all around his breast and shoul-
ders hangs an ornamental drapery,
a Kind of scarhng, rolled in many
plaits and folds, of various oolored
silken tissues. We have been thus
particular as to the dress, because it
snot every day one has TO behold or
describe such blaze of 'barbac pearl
and gold,' as we have here. He was
followed by a numerous retinue, the
next to him in procession being his
brthers-fine, jolly, dusky youthS-a
Sort of Nepaulese John Bulls, larger
and more outwardly powerful than
the ambassador, but with less of
compact energy and finely developed
form They were dressed in SINH
lar style to him. but less grandly and
lustrously. A number of officers and
attendants came in succession, two
by two, all in the variegated and dstri-
king oriental costume, and all, if pos
sible, more oriental, more cast-like
and different from anything Euro
pean than their chief, whose peculiL
arltles are almost entirely smoothed
down by the superior intelligence
and cultivation ofhis own mind, and
blythe plastic effects of travel and
foreign experiences. One hoary old
fellow, with sharp look, and small,
keen' poro'lpine eyes, made me start
back a little and invoIuntarily exam
inc whether he had not a bow.string
ora scimitar under the folds ofhis
mantle, i should not willingly place
myself under his Jurlsdition; g 9il
Apropos TO the Prlnce, 1t is stated
that a young English girl of great
beauty and high spirit, has for some
time past excited much attention at
the court end OF London, first, be-
cause she has been much talked oi
as possessing an unenviable but fash