Connecticut western news., 1885-12-16
Story of Princess M'Tse,

In volume entitled, Central Afri- ca-Naked Truths of Naked People" there appears the following:
 On the Sd of August (1874), while preparing to destroy the little baggage that King M'Tse 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 might the more easily descend the river. The M'Tongoli ad- vanced toward me, and in the name of King M'Tse presented me with eight beautiful young girls varying from ten to twenty years of age. One of them, the daughter of the King, beautiful child of ten years, had been sent me as a 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 a 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 a man to whose hospitality and kindness I owed my life. It could not be thought of, therefore l accept ed and sent to M'Tse message of grateful acknowledgements.
 I had quilted Uganda on the morn- ing of the 18th 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?" I had arrived in Ruba- ga, the capital of Uganda, one month before, on the 20th of June, and had been received as a MbttguJW, or white Prince, by 10000 prostrate subjects of M'Tse, who contained their fear of the white man until mounted upon a horse, which, unseen till now, was a still greater phenomenon. I dis mounted, when they fled to the jungle, mortified at the disjunction of horse and man, for till then they had taken me for centaur! had suffered tine 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.
 M'Tse and M'Toki-names I had given the girl and boy (M'Toki, signi- lying banana, was the name given the latter on account of his peculiar greed lness in devoring bananas were 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 emmy, and successfully arrived at the military outpost of Foueira. A year later, having concluded other i'm portant expeditions, I was on my way to Khartoum, en route to Cairo, under orders from Gordon to assume con- mand of the expedition which was to cooperate with him by opening an equatorial road from the Indian Ocean to the interior.
 M'Tse was among the many singu- lar types in my train gathered for ethnological study, or for presentation to the KhediTe 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 camel, and finally in Cairo, the City of the Victorious the El-Kahirah of the Caliph. How shall picture her delight and expres. sions of amazement? The ethE ologi. cal collection was turned over to the Khediye, but M'Tse, in pursuance ot the idea which had decided me te 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 a sufficient sum was placed at her disposal to mee the projected metamorphosis. An in terval of several years went by, dur ing which I was frequently absent il command of expeditions engaged il distant explorations.
 Twas in Cairo after my return iron &he Indian Ocean. Sister Agath