The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1885-12-10
Story Of Princess Mise.

In volume entitled, Central Afri-
ea--Naked Truths of Naked People"
there appears the following:
On the Sd of August (l874), while
preparing to destroy the little baggage
that King Mise had caused to be re-
stored to me, messenger arrived
from the King bringing with him a
M'Tongoli, who had orders to procure
me boats resembling those in which
we had navigated the Lake Victoria
N'Yanza, that l might the more easily
descend the river. The M'Tongoli ad-
vanced toward me, and in the name of
King Mise presented me with eight
beautiful young girls varying from
ten to twenty years Of age. One Of
them, the daughter of the King, a
beautiful child of ten years, had been
sent me as special mark of his royal
favor. The little Princess was the
living image of her father both in form
and face. She was subsequently
placed in school at Cairo (Convent of
the Bon Pasteur), where she now is.
The King had sent me also boy of
twelve and two beautiful little ches-
nut colored infants, scarcely able to
walk. 1t was an embarrassing dilem-
ma. To refuse was to wound African
etiquette, and more, brave the wrath
of man to whose hospitality and
kindness l owed my life. 1t could
not be thought of, therefore l accept
ed and sent to Mise a message Of
grateful Acknowledgements,
had quilted Uganda on the morn
ing of the e-19th of July to return by
the river which left the Victoria
N'Yanza in the North, and which. un-
explored and unnavigated, still was
the unknown link in the great prob
lem of "Where are the great sources
of the Nile?' l had arrived in Ruba-
ga, the capital of Uganda, one month
before, on the goth of June, and had
been received as Mbug,ru, or white
Prince, by 10000 PROSTATE subjects Of
Mise, who contained their fear of
the white man until mounted upon u
horse, which, unseen till now, was a
still greater phenomenon. l dis
mounted, when they fed to the jungle,
Mortified at the distinction of horse
and man, for till then they had taken
me for centaur! had suffered the
horrible honor Of having thirty peo-
pie choked, decapitated or hewn to
pieces in my presence, all for my honor,
and that the stranger might be i'm
pressed with the power Of the King.
Mise and M'Toki-names 1 had
given the girl and boy (M'Tolli, signi-
flying banana, was the name given the
latter on account Of his peculiar greed
mess in dev0ring bananaS1 we're
charmed with the idea of making the
first voyage of their lives with us, and
laughed and chatted together in their
beautiful Uganda language, as if with
every bend Of the river they were not
leaving behind them, forever, perhaps,
the dense banana forest which had
been their home, exchanging life Of
almost perfect repose for toll and care
in the land to the northward. 1t is
sufficient to say that We escaped mir
aculously the threatened death by
starvation, the lance and the arrow of
the en- emy, and successfully arrived at
the military outpost of Foueira. A
year later, having concluded other i'm
portant expeditions, was on my way
to Khartoum, en- route to Cairo, under
orders from Gordon to assume COM
mand of the expedition which was to
cooperate with him by opening an
equatorial road from the Indian Ocean
to the interior.
MISE was among the many singu-
lar. types in my train gathered for
chronological study, or for presentation
to the Khedive as Representatives of
the races which had lately become his
subjects. The little Princess was
amazed at the steamer which took us
from Gondokoro to Khartoum; in this
latter place she saw for the first time
house, at Berber a camel, and finally,
in Cairo, the City of the Victorious,
the El-Kahirah of the Caliph. How
shall picture her delight and express
sions of amazement? The etlEologi-
cal collection was turned over to the
Khedive, but Mise, in pursuance of
the idea which had decided me to
bring her to Cairo, determined should
be educated. With this object in view
I went to see Sister Agatha, of the
Convent of the Bon Pasteur, who
readily entered into my plans and un-
dertook her education, and sufficient
sum was placed at her disposal TO meet
the projected metamorphosis. An in
terval of several years went by, dur
ing which ] was frequently absent in
command of expeditions engaged in
distant explorations.
was in Cairo after my return from
the Indian Ocean. Sister Agatha