Show THE TALK OF PA PARIS TWO AFRICANS NOW DISCUSSED IN THE GAY CAPITAL ono one in do liar barlan princess and the other oilier a Forat coratious ious are arc attention but bitt or limido two africans are now tho the t fallt ilk of paris ono one is a bright and rather pretty girland girl and the other others n bloody old king the parisians Pari speak of her ter as la jolio Ne gresso and of him well they have several titles which would not look well in english but uio the favorito favorite one may ile bo translated the OU black monster 11 ho els is the king of dahomey and silo she is San abou lieutenant recently passed two years in central africa crossing frair the bonne bentio rh rn er cr to the congo and thence going down to the european stations ile ho traversed a legion as yet unvisited by white men and won the lie friendship of a great chief whose cal capital lital lias has about the chief chiet B daughter then thirteen years old exhibited a wonderful intelligence anol and lier her curiosity to eee eo the world was so great that slie she begged permission to go with the whites her talent for languages astonished the french as silo sho poke all tho dialects of that part of africa and in a month acquired enough french to converse with tolerable fluency her father finally consented to her departure and t ahr ko of great value to lieutenant is aa an interpreter on arrival VI i paris her grace galety gayety and intelligence ay I 1 1 41 e r V r S INA raised hera her a liot host of friend and in leardi learning daiv language music and manners abe he i is quite a pr lir ay much is expect expected edof of tier her when she letunik to africa Belian zin aai deery king of dahomey is a crea luio of nf very cry different type if hi army of amazons his bloody sacrifice Fac i of captives and slaves his horrible snake temples an aal 1 general emeral deviltry lave have been related by travelers especially captain richarl Ric uarl F burton anil YO ye the old fellow is talented in fact I 1 lie Dab Da homans omans rene venc ventrally rally excel all of t ta ilave bave coast in bravery the french hold the only on eliat part of tile coast and a strip of land and around whydah Why dali tile town forbade the Dalion ians to take taice captives in the region under their protea tion and so BO war began but as the lili lail hido is ii i i just north of lie equator thero are only a few v aeki in thu ilio ju w ir I 1 aliat liat white rien men can call carev carry on oil war NN it iti 11 all any effectiveness for two or fluce months the rain falls almost incessantly awl ami at other times lie ie air buta but 1 little wiy way 11 land from the coast is deadly to otil olin i I 1 than african constitutions all the bowlind low laudi i is u a i tangled ija ness of trees and vine with such a pi ciofu of n on oil or if brilliant i 1 1 to dazilo the e ce e in fit these fricis boic is we a wild animals and buds of every i known in africa including vampire bits bats with three feet spica spread t of ining m boi boa constrictors furty forty feet long ana many small tik baket whose v liose bite is certain and sudden d dath dalli ath all the tica eh on tho t coast in ill sharks i irks of the alio coret kind wh while ile inland almost every insect is venomous ever every climb lus has a thorn and almost every reptile carries it i ii S C rl 3 4 ol 01 V till 14 J ill adz WI 11 A THE KING OF 01 peculiar poi poison on after crosing cro cr sing to the hagho lands tile alie 1 1 I ench encounter the famous black Aina amazons zons ir or female warriors every is used to keep the female nimy aimy as is laigo as pos possible sible and many curious i methods art are employed employ cil to 11 unsex aex tile women and mako them thein ferocious cious any or cn ean en the at ap clearance of fi foud fondness neSI 1 is 8 punished ih d with ith il raili oil aim of the results has that in less than a century the population of if Dallo zuey lias has dech declined lied from to less than and is still rapi rapidly declining tho french frer ch ha leavo 0 V out on two occasions mado frightful slaughter berof of thee the e and allot tire biru izing campaign campi ign agaibi A there |