Show th the e amazons ofAf of africa in dahomey a considerable portion of flie hc national troops consist of armed and disciplined f females they are known as being royal wio women med strictly aal an I 1 watchfully kept hept from any cornum cation calion with men and seem to have been trained through dici discipline pline and 1 the he force occo of operation cooperation co to the accomplishment of enterprises from which I 1 the tumultuous warriors of a native army would ahr shrinka ilk late english author duncan Dnn can says 11 I 1 have se seen t them all well armed and generally fine strong healthy womer women arid and doubtless capable of nf ei edu during ing great fatigue they seem to use the he long danish musket with as much ease case as one of our grenadiers grena diers does his bis f ire lock but not of course with the same quick quickness quickies nes s as they are not trained to any particular exercise but on receiving the word make an attack like a pack of hounds with willi great reat swiftness of course they would be useless against disciplined troops jf if at all ap pro ahing abing to the same numbers still their appearance ance is more military than the generality of of the mep bep and aid in undertaking a compaan camp comp agn I 1 should prefer the female to the male soldiers soldier s of this country the same author thus describes a field review of the amazons which he witnessed bitnes ed I 1 was conducted 10 to lo a large space of broken ground eliere fourteen our teen days had been or occupied in erecting three I 1 immense immense prickly piles of green busl bush 1 these three clumps of piles of a sort of strong brier or thorn thorl armed with the most dangerous pickles p ickles were placed in line occupying about four hundred yards I 1 le leaving iving only a narrow passage between them sufficient merely to distinguish each clump appointed to each re regiment 11 ament these piles wea were about seventy feet wide and eight feet high upon examining them I 1 could not persuade myself that any human being without boots or shoes would under any circumstances attempt to pass over so dangerous a collection of the most efficiently armed plants I 1 had ever seen ci 14 tle amazons wear a blue striped eat on manufactured by the natives and a pair of trousers falling just below the knee the cartlidge carti box is girded around the loins I 1 11 the drums and trumpets soon announced the approach of three or four thousand amazons the soldiers female made their appearance pe arance at about two hundred yards from or in front of the first pile where they shouldered arms in a few seconds the word for attack was given and a rush was made towards theopile the pile with a speed beyond conception and aid in less than one minute the whole body had passed over tins ibis immense pile and had taken the supposed town each of the other piles were passed with the same rapidity at intervals off of twenty minutes qs when a person is is killed in dattle battle the skin is taken from the headband head hea dand and kept as a trophy of valor I 1 counted seven hundred scalps pais pass in this his t manner the captains of each arps carps female in passing again again presentad thenis themselves elves I 1 before his majesty and received the kinds approval of their b conduct 11 I 1 1 DUTCH enterprise ENTEBI BISE the paris correspondent of the new york journal of commerce in a description of holland as it appears at the present day illustrates the wonderful ind in dusty and perseverance of the dutch by a reference to the drainage of the lake of ft arlem this laka as some of our readers pi remember mias was drained or to speak more corrects correctly it its S waters were pumped out qt and its former ta oed e dis is now used for agricultural purposes the lake was thirty three miles in in circumference land is precious iri in the netherlands and government concluded to invade the waters for more A deep canal witha with a dyke was ae accordingly dug around the lake and the water was first drawn off into the ranat ranal and thence conveyed lo 10 sea by maans means of four immense steam engines fifty thousand acres of rich arable land were thus reclaimed and the gverin government nt ha has repaid itself by sales for the cost of an enterprise which it rc required four years to accomplish I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 1 11 I 1 |