The Grange advance. [volume] (Red Wing, Minn.) 1873-1877, 1876-06-28

uA4SduCo, says IlllS SStlue WI1UeI,
''known as the Kings company, the
Right and Left wings. Each of these
has a peculiar head-dress by which it
may be known. 49,,
The Kings brigade wear the hair
shaved a Ia turban, and bound with
narrow fillets, with alligators of col
| ored cloth sewn on them. The Right
wing have their heads shaven, leavin!
only a solitary tuft or two, while the
Left wear the hair au naturelle.
Whether these fair warriors have any
choice of regiments we are unable to
say. In some parts of the world there
would perhaps be some little heart
burning among ladies who were divid-
ed into corps, one Of which was per-
mitted to wear it's hair all naturelle,
while another was required to shave
the head. Amazons, however, whose
conquests are supposed to be entirely
OF the military order, are perhaps
above the trivialities of personal adorn-
ment. Celibacy is enjoined upon all
but a few who are found to be essen
tial to the happiness of the king or
are given in marriage to w of the
most deserving soldiers.
Whether Gelele keeps up the same
mode Of enlistment as his predecessor
we are unable to say. GeZu used to
require every one of his subjects who
had daughters above certain age to
present them at court upon certain
day, and he personally selected the
most promising of the aristocracy for
Amazon officers--or Officeresses, as
some travellers prefer 1.-THE girls of
the lower orders being drafted into the
rank and file. The dress of the female
warriors appears to be somewhat after
the ''Mary Walker type. with a few
tritiing notifications. ':They wear
says Duncan. ''a blue and white strip
ed cotton surtout Of stout native man.
ufacture without sleeves. leaving free
dom for the arms. The skirt or tunic
reaches as low as the kilt of the Hi gh
landers. A pair Of short trousers is
worn underneath, reaching two inches
below the knee
By way Of illustrating the accom-
plishments of these active damsels
Lieut.. Duncan may again be quoted.
81 was conducted he says, ''to a
space Of broken ground, where four
teen days had been occupied in erect.
ing three immense prickly piles of
green bush. These three clumps, or
piles, of a sort of strong briar or thorn,
armed with the most dangerous prick
les, were placed in line, occupying
about four hundred yards, leaving on.
ly a marrow passage between them suf-
ficient merely to distinguish each
clump appointed to each regiment
These piles were about seventy feet
wide and eight high. Upon examin-
ing them I could not persuade myself
that any human being without boots
or shoes would under any circumstan.
ces attempt to pass over 50 dangerous
a collection of the most efficiently
armed plants I had ever seen.
Behind these piles already mention
ed were large pens at the distance of
800 yards, fenced with piles seven feet
high, thickly matted together with
strong reeds. Enclosed within were
several hundred slaves belonging to
the king. The Amazons appear on the
scene, halt with shouldered arms 200
yards from the prickly fortress, and
then the word is given. "A rush was
made toward the pile with a speed be-
yond conception, and in less than one
minute the whole body had passed
over this immense pile and taken the
supposed town. It places the gal
lantry of the traveller in a very favor.
able light to be able to add that when
the proud potentate asked whether
he thought the same number of Eng
fish women could do the same, he re-
Piled that the ladies Of England were
not soldiers, but that many Of them
had individually and voluntarily done
things unite as great