The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-01-16
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cended to her brother. In one hand ehs
 held a spear, with which she gestlculat
 ed as she harangued her troops Hel { marvellous beauty and her superb splfl
 struck through the troops like hre, ano
 they answered the princess With WIG
 shouts and protestations of loyalty. or derng the great gates thrown open ! HoWa issued forth at the head or the { guards, and a short and savage con hict ensued in the city streets. HoWa
 was everywhere, encouraging and dl- | recting her troops, and with their mod
 ern rifles they soon had the rebels fly ing to their holes. Returning tmum-
 phant to the paIce, Howa welcomed her
 brother Fatarella. who had now ap-
 peared on the scene with the remnants
 of his fathers army
 FatarelIa now set about recognizing
 his army and welding together again
 the empire which had threatened to fall
 in pieces at his fathers death Reforms
 in the civil administration were intro-
 duced, rebellious communities were
 overrun and brought back to their al
 legiance, and before long all the dis
 turbance caused by the French invasion
 had ceased and F'atarela was as secure
 in his throne as his father had been be-
 fore him. In all this the new sultan I was greatly assisted by his sister HoWa,
 who proved that she knew how to give
 shrewd advice as well as to lead troops
 in battle. Fatarella created regular
 army of 2,000 foot soldiers, which he
 armed with modern rifles, and kept also | a considerable body of horse For the ' |, r,,l,o 6a ca1a1tn6 for his | bodyguard he continued the use of the 1 old chain armor, and appeared in pub l lie surrounded by the glittering caval- ade, clad himself in pure white, with diamond aigret shining in his turban. 1 Howa demanded and received com mand of a company in her brothers army, and this company she proceeded to make the best disciplined and best drilled in all the army. Whenever there was an expedition sent out to subdue hostile neighbors or rebelious subjects Howa was with the expedition and led her company in battle. For the last year she has been actively engaged in the field and has seen much fighting, in all of which, by her example and en- couragement, she has helped on the vic tory which invariably has come to the troops of the Sultan, her brother. Re gently the neighboring pagan State of Kilba gave trouble to the Sultan. The Kilbas made constant raids into Bornu territory and grew bolder and bolder in their depredations, until it was nec- essary to take measures to break their power,
 Besides this regular army of 2,000 foot INo+ +ox 1loe. lar militia of some 10000 men upon which he can draw. From the militia and his regular army he organized powerful expedition for the punish ment of the Kilbas. Howa begged her brother for the command of the expedi- tion. The Sultan was both to let his sister go on an adventure of the kind for there was much hard fighting to be done and many hardships to be borne before the I<ilbas should be conquered- that he knew. But Howa urged her claims, demanding to know where he had better captain or a braver soldier in all his domains than herself, or a leader whom the troops would follow and obey more gladly.
 Finally the Sultan consented, and, 1 riding out in front of the expeditionary ! army with his sister by his side, pre- | scented her to the soldiers as their lead CT Howa was received with the widest | by the trops and that night she took up her march for the Kilba | country In this campaign the girl | warrior displayed military ability of a high order. and after brief war, in ! which she fought number of pitched | r,y;+I ,a ba ,11t tol, subdued the hostile country and added I it to her brothers domains. Then she | returned in triumph to Kuka, the Sul- tan and all his nobles going out beyond | the city gates to meet her and her vic torious army and escort them into the capital
 No wonder all Central Africa is ring ng with the fame of Howa the beauti- ful and brave. A British mission to Fatarela, which has just returned from Bornu, reports having seen Howa in all ner panoply of war riding at the head Ter company at grand review of the Sultan's troops. The mission was sent @ open up relations with Fatarella, for 3ornu itself lies within the British 'phere of influence, though parts of the 5ultanS domains are in the German |
  md French spheres. When the Powers net together with map of Africa, a uler, and a pencil, and divided up the Bornu beca me nominaly a 1 British protectorate, though no attempt i vas made to occupy the country or to z reat the Sultan as q vassa of the l British throne. However, it was bought well to send out an embassy l nd see what the new Sultan thought bout the situa ton so Major McCIin- 2 ock, of the Seaforth Highlanders. and lieutenant McGregor, of the Cold tream Guards, were commissioned as 3 nvoys to Fatarela, and proceeding to 4 he West Coast of Africa, they ascend d the Niger and it's large tributary, the 5 'enue, to the British station of tbi, the 1ost advanced outpost of European Utilization near the borders of Sultan T territory
 Native runners carried the news to le Sultan that the British envoys were oming to see him on a friendly visit. [e did not await the envovs in his caps al of Kuka, as they had expected he | ould, but gathered his army together nd came forth to meet them Twenty W we days march from the post of Ibi D atarella established his camp and u