The Abbeville messenger. (Abbeville, S.C.) 1884-1887, 1885-12-22
Story of Princess Mise.

In a volume entitled, Central Afri-
>ca-Naked Truths of Naked People,"
there appears the following:
On the Sd Of August (1S74), while
preparing to destroy the little baggage
that King Mise had caused to be re-
stored to me-, a 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 1 might the more easily
descend the river. The M'Tongoli a.d-
yanced 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 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-
Enut-colored infants, scarcely able to
walk. 1t was an embarrassing dilem-
ma. To refuse was to wound African
etiquette, and more. brave the wrath
.nf q man RI SuGnco hnooifoISfu or,1
kindness I owed my life. 1t could
mot 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 18th of July to return by
the river which left the Victoria
lN'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 Goth of June, and had
been received as a Mbugu,1I, or white
Prince, by 10000 PROSTATE subjects of
-M'Ts& who contained their fear of
the white man until mounted upon u
horse. Which. unseen till now, was a
still grdater phenomenon. 1 dis
;mounted,\ when they fled to the jungle,
Mortified the distinction of horse
and man, pr till then they had taken
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horrible hon pr of having thirty peo-
iple choked, Eecapitated or hewn to
pieces in my Eesence. all for my honor,
and that the Granger might be i'm
pressed with tn power Of the King.
Mise and HToki-names I had
given the girl ~ boy (M'Toki, signi-
flying banana, SSs the name given the
latter on accouns) f his peculiar greed
iness in devori bananas) were
charmed with tt videa of making the
first voyage of tn, lives with us. and
laughed and cbattsS together in their
beautiful Uganda Aguage. as if with
very bend uf the Z 4r they were not
eavlng Dehind tnen forever. perhaps,
The dense banana Vest which had
been their home, exc Apging a life of
almost perfect repose toll and care
in the land to the IN Inward. 1t is
sufficient to say that ia escaped mir
aculously the threate,A death by
starvation. the lance anlNhe arrow of
the Ell my. and ~successfi 1t arrived at
the military outpost O Mueira. A
year later, having concluhsAother i'm
portant expeditions. I wabNk my way
to Khartoum. en- route to oto, under
orders from Gordon to ANIME COM
mand of the expedition VIII. was to
cooperate with him by ching an
equatorial road from the lnds\ocean
TO the interior. "a
MISE was among the man,y6ngu-
lar types in my train gather\ for
chronological study, or for press Hion
70 the Khediye as r~epresentat-A of
he races which had lately becdxlNis
,ubjects. The little Princess cSAs
i amazed at the steamer which I'd as
from Gondokoro to Khartoum; in y
latter place she saw for the first
a house. at Berber acamel, and fina
in Cairo, the City OF tho Victoria
the El-Kahirah of the Caliph. Id
shall / picture her delight and EXPIRE
sions Of amazementp The ethE olog