Milford chronicle., 1885-12-18
Story of Princess Mise.

!: In volume entitled, Central Afri
ca-Naked Truths of Naked People,
there appears the following:
Z On the Sd of August (1874), Will
+ preparing to destroy the little baggag
that King Mise had caused to be re
stored to me, q messenger arrived
from the King bringing with him ;
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 ad-
vanced toward me, and in the name oi
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
avOr. 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 man to whose hospitality and
kindness I owed my life It could
not be thought of, therefore ! accept
ed and sent to M'Tse a message of
grateful Acknowledgements.
had quilted Uganda on the morn
ing of the 10Th 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?" had arrived in Ruba-
ga, the capital of Uganda, one month
before, on the Goth of June, and had
been received as a MJuguyu, OF white
Prince, by 10000 PROSTATE subjects of
Mise, who contained their fear of
the white man until mounted upon a
horse, which, unseen till now, was a
still greater phenomenon. 1 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 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 mir t be i'm
pressed with the power of the King.
Mise aud MToki-names 1 had
given the girl and boy (M'Toki, signi-
flying banana, was the name given the
latter on account of his peculiar greed
mess in devoring bananas were
charmed with the idea of making the
irst voyage of their lives with us, and
aughed and chatted together in their
Uganda language, as if with
,very bend of the river they were not
eaving behind them, forever, perhaps
he dense banana forest which had ;
,een their home, exchanging a life of {
ilmost perfect repose for toll and care
n the land to the northward. 1t is
to say that we escaped mir ;
the threatened death by
tarvation, the lance and the arrow of a
he enemy, and successfully arrived at I
be military outpost of Foueira A b
ear later, having concluded other inn '
Ortant expeditions, I was on my way b
D Khartoum, en- route to Cairo, under a
rders from Gordon to assume com ?
land of the expedition which was to n
with him by opening an 1
luatOrial road from the Indian Ocean
} the interior.
MISE was among the many singu-
IT types in my train gathered for ii
Theological study, or for presentation O.
the Khedive as representatives of h
le races which had lately become his u
lbjects. The little Princess was D,
nazed at the steamer which took us cl
ON GOndokOro to Khartoum; in this W
tier place she saw for the first time IL
house, at Berber a camel, and finally, d,
Cairo, the City Of the Victorious. a
70 El-Kahirah of the Caliph. How CT
all picture her delight and express ar
'ns Of amazement? The ethnologl- in
! collection was turned over to the br
hedive, but MISE, in pursuance Of of
e idea which had decided me to OF
ing her to Cairo, determined should ou
educated. With this object in view th
went to see Sister Agatha, of the at
invent of the Bon Pasteur, who br
adily entered into my plans and un- W,
rtOOk her education, and sufficient tn
m was placed at her disposal TO meet an
. projected metamorphosis. An in tht
val Of several years went by, dur of
: which was frequently absent in cal
nmand of expeditions engaged in pc
tant explorations. 70,
was in Cairo after my return from fra
, Indian Ocean. Sister Agatha sol