The New York herald., 1878-09-26
STANLEY'S NEW BOY.
EMPEROR M1EsA's PAGE JOINS STANLEY IN

EMPEROR M1E5As PAGE JOINS STANLEY IN
TARIS.
Edward King In the Boston Journal, Sept 2Ll
A youpg savage has arrived In Paris tonight from
Africa 10 Join Mr. Stanley, and have had the pleas.
ure Of presentation TO the swarlny youth, who Is
noble IN lar Uganda, whence he came. Kadu q
page Of the Emperor Mtesa, and was allowed TO ac.
company Mr. Stanley on the adventurous journey
across Africa Mtesa consented with much alacrity
request that Ksdu might go because he under
stood that lad would be kind OF diplomatic agent
who could tell him what srans 20 white man was
up to. Tho African Is thoroughly devoted to Stanley
and any who doubts the explorers knowledge Of
tho language In In Uganda should hear him
convcrsing with ksdu for hours together Tho
language Is sofi musical, filed with yowss
When Master Kadu Is excited In cobvsrsalion bc
opens n wide mouth which Is filed with beautiful
whto teeth, and let's the words now n II we're
impossible for him to cheek them. He Ia intel
igent than kauiu, the boy whom stanley rescued
from a slave drover and brought TO England and
America with him some years SINCE Ksdu bcsn
"A month coming ironi ZanZibir To London by steamer
aud during that time ne has learned great deal OF
English. The sailors and cabin boys pronounced the
words tor him aud ne wrote them don phoneI caiy
IN Arabic, which he knows how 10 write IL is mex
presiby comica TO hear hm ryin TO DrinT oct iEcse
words and re-cstablisn tbeir pron
from bis phonetic notes. hc docs ~ "a time.
should he remain some TINE IN Europe VIII prove
found that hc had taken down srcn worGs ''bllh"
'hors.,' ana ssnar" without their preliminary aspi-
rate because he had learned tbcn sound sai,rs
disusin tho ''h.n ksiu ~, 1 believe, the nrst
native vi Uganda who has ever set foot upon Euro
pean soiL "Waiiahl" no SAID The other night 10 Mr.
stanley. 'Waliah master but these whitc people
always preparing Tor var" Then bo described lne
fortncattons OF ''Moo.slla," a. Lo csis Malta. 40
assured Stanley, alter he bad caught a glimpse of
London and naa been IA PARIS ior day, that no
sidered the wDe men gods aud not mcu. AZ ls1st,
master" he said, They mus % eptrisn Ibc young
man has singulstly pleasant ioaturcs lie ~ not
auy rcpulsve type, but, on TIE contrary, one
would imagine Ihai he hai been fOr a long lna Ia
contact with civiiiz ition unless he assured
OF the contrary. Hia eyes arc astSnishtngly
soft and expressvs, and bis face lights up lbsl
He is pisck us black eau be. kxdu ~ n Mussulman.
having become one during has travels, and is qaite
hthusiasIic over his new found religion. Stanley
asked him quietly the other day what hc souia ~
Emperor Mtcsa, who is not n N Mussulman, should ask
him to give up his religion. He answered that he
could not do u. 'Weli, but suppose Mtcsa should
Kill your 'Sdsh, enough, answered kadu. mesb-
ms let him ki then. There 10 NO danger that htssa
VIII DO any such thing, luckily. Kaou wili take back
to Uganda II taio wbich will make the African Em-
pcror open hts eyes wider tba" ever before. Mhon
he youth saw the balloon hover above toe tuie-
ries day ater MS arrival he refused To Dscve that
there mon Ia u. lie assured O the iact that
forty or niy persons were then IN the balloon bag
kc when lac broke cut with his usual exclamation of
urprise. "Msma, mama what peoplei" The tbing
which chiefly conioundcd ksdu was stanieys ah-
when ho asked him, .ls this your country,
thenS" "No," was the response; "Iny country 10
still far away, across another great sea-" mama
Mamai" said Kadu again, with a certain accent %
despair