Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1889-10-12
CONVENIENT PRESENTS.
les of little Savages Who Have Come
In the Possession of Explorers.

Now and then when an explorer
fists a savage tribe they insist upon
presenting him with girl or boy as
token of their esteem. These presents,
being inconvenient to carry around,
are generally declined with thanks, but
few Of them have reached Europe.
Among the Aka dwarfs who have
been taken to Europe are two who were
presented to white men. One of them,
now young man, is living in the
palace of Count Miniscalohi at Verona,
and the other, bright-eyed little girl.
who was presented to the explorer
Gessi, is a servant in the family of his
widow at Trieste.
A while ago, when Mr.. Lumholtz
was travelling among the cannibals of
Queensland, Australia, some villagers
wished to give him young girl whom
they regarded as the beauty of the viii
lage by way of recognizing his valua-
BILE services in soaring away hostile
band with few shots of his revolver,
so Lumholtz told them to send her to
his camp.
There was to be dance that night,
and Kelanmi slim, good-loOking girl,
about fifteen years old, was in full
dress. which consisted chiefly of paint.
She did not fancy the white man, and
at the request of Lumholtz, a lusty
young chap in the village whom she
did fancy was sent along with her.
She tremblcd like leaf as Lumholtz
babe her sit down by the fire. The
white man tried to win her confidence
by giving her bread and meat, but she
could not be induced to say word or
to look at her new master, and the eat
ables lay untouched beside her. Lum-
holtz said it panied him to witness the
anguish of the timid little thing, and
soon, to the great establishment OF the
blacks who were looking on, he told
Kelanmi she might go home. She
bounded away, another creature en-
tirely, as soon as she found she no
longer belonged to the strange looking
man.
In the household of young Arnot, the
missionary, whose travels have made
him famous, are several little girls
whom he found in slave caravans
marching to the coast. They were
nearly dead with fatigue, and as they
were likely to be left to perish by their
cruel Arab masters, he bought them
for few yards of cloth. The youngest
of them, who was about nine years
old, particularly interested him, be-
cause, after she had been nursed back
to health, she was very bright and
happy About six months after this
little girl, Mwepo, became member
of his family, Arnot went one morning
TO take breakfast with King Msidi,
who is now the chief pOtentate in the
Congo basin. While they were together
little girl entered the yard, threw
noi self at the Kings feet, and did
obeisance by rubbing dust on her arms
and forehead. The King asked her
what she wanted, and she said, as she
wept, that she was little slave girl
whom the Kings soldiers had taken
from her home in Luba. She said her
mistress kept beating her and she had
run away to beg the Kings protection.
AS Arnot arose to leave, the sly old
King told the little girl to follow the
white man, if she wished home where
she would not be beaten any more.
Arnot saw her coming after him, and
so he took her hand and led her to his
cottage. What was his astonishme MT
when little Mwepo and the newcomer
flew into each others arms, weeping
as though their hearts would break
He says that for several days he was
scarcely able to do any thing with
them, so continually did they hang OIL
each others neck.
Three years before these free-bOrn
children of Luba were playing in the
water, near the huts of their parents,
when their childish glee was turned to
terror by slave stealers, who tore them
from their homes and from each other.
After many months of unmiXed sorrow
and hardship better fate had reunited
them, and they were free once more,
in the home of kind white friend,
who had come thousands of miles to
brighten the pathway of unfortunates
like themselves.-N. Y. Sun.
An Initiative Canary.