Show I A Comic Opera King An amusing letter just received from I Dahomey describes the capture of Be hanzin and his adventures before his I departure for Cotonou When the dusky monarch learned that his half i i brother had been raised to the throne S he offered to surrender but on condi tion that he should not be given up to him He was wandering about in the country near Abomey General Dodds told him that he would only be banished banish-ed and he was sent on to Cotonou As he landed there the people clustered on the quay and the troops had to keep the negroes back Behanzins demeanor de-meanor is described as dignified He has a long narrow face and a very I ferocious look He walked along proudly wearing a superb mantle of Loie Fuller satin and leaning on the shoulder of his favorite wife who fanned I fan-ned him incessantly In his mouth was a pipe with a very long stem which got rather in his and be got A U U way QU U hind him came thirtysix wives and I slaves bearing linen and cooking utensils uten-sils Most of them were Amazons who had remained faithful to him They were not pretty but there was something I some-thing distinguished in his appearance j So Behanzin advanced toward the military i itary authorities with whom he shook hands and who told him all the troops had been assembled in his honor Soon i after he had reached his temporary quarters he sent for his cook who I turns out to be a veritable chef and a good meal a la Europeenne was promptly prepared which he washed down with champagne Much however how-ever to his disgust most of his wives declared on the following day that they would not accompany him to Martinique Martin-ique but preferred to go into business go at Cotonou When he started for Senegal Sen-egal only a few went with him London Lon-don Telegraph |