The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1878-12-14
Stanley New Boy.

\ young savage has arrived in Paris tonight
from Africa. to join Mr.. Stanley. and | have had
the pleasure Of presentation o. the swnrthy
youth, who is noble in far Uganda, whence he
came. kadu was n page of the Emperor Mtesa.
and was allowed % accompany MIR. Stanley on
the adventurous Journey across Africa. Mtcsa
consented with much alacrity 10 tho request
that kadu might g, because he understood that
the lad would bc a kind OF diplomatic agent
wh0 could tell him what this strange man wa
up 20. The African II thoroughly devoted 10
Stanley, and any one who doubts the explorers
knowledge of the language IN use IN Uganda
should hear him convcrsing with hadu Tor hours.
The language ~ sOit, musical, filed with vowcls.
When master kadO j. excited in conversation,
be opens a wide mouth which is filed With
beautiful white teeth, and lets the words low
out as il ii were impossible for him to stop them.
He is more intelligent than kRlulu, the boy
whom Stanley rescued from a slave druver and
brought 10 England and America with him
some years since. kadu has been n month
coming from Zanzibar TO London by steamer,
and during that time has learned a great deal
Of English. The sailors and cabin boys pro-
nounced the words for him, and he wrote them
down phonetically in Arabic. which he knows
how TO write. Ii is inexpressibly comical 20
hear him trying to bring out theee words and
re-esta blIsh their pronunciation from hIs phonetic
notes. He does IL IN time, and should he remain
some time in Europe, will prove an apt scholar.
We were compelled 20 laugh when we found
that he had taken down such words as e high
q horse and - hair without their preliminary
aspirate, because be had learned their sound
from sailors who disdain the "h.' kadu H.. i
believe, the fret native Of Uganda who has
ever set foot upon European soil. allah
he SAID the other night 20 Mr.. Stanley,
- NaIlah master. but these white people are
always preparing for war" Then he described
the fertilization of " MoO-alta," rs be calls
Malta. lie assured Stanley, after he bad caught
a glimpse OF Condor and been In Paris for n day,
that he considered the white men gods and not
men. &" At least, MASTER he said, " they must
be spirits The young man has singularly
pleasant features. lie is not in any sense a
repulsive type, but. on the contrary, one would
imagine that he had been for a long time in
contact with civilization unless he were assured
Of the contrary. His eyes are ast0nishingly
soft and expressive, and his face lights up 80
that is quite pleasing TO zee when he is pleased.
lie is as black as black can be. kadu is a
Mussulman, having become one during bis
travels, and is quite enthusiastic over his new
found religion. Stanley asked him quietly the
other day what he should do II Emperor Mtesa,
who is not a Musulman, should mex him TO give
up his religion. He answered that he would not
do it. well, suppose Mtesa should kill you ~
- Rash enough answered Kadu, meaning,
let him kill. then. There is no danger that
Mtesa will do any such thing, luckily. kadu
will take back to Uganda n tale that will make
the African Emperor open his eyes wider than
ever before. When the youth saw the balloon
lowering over the Tuilleries n day after his
arrival he refused to believe that there were nen
in it. lie was assured l. of the fact that forty or
fifty persons were then in the balloon basket,
when he broke out with his usual exclamation
of surprise Mama, mama, what n people,
The thing which chiefly COMPOUNDED Kadu was
Stanley's answer when he asked him, Is this
your country ?' NO. was the reply. my
country is still far away. across another great WA
ter" "Mama, mama!' said Kadu again, with a
certain accent of despair EdVGrd Hing an The
Boston Journal, Sept. 24h.