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Show MEET1NO THIS EMIR OP QAnUA. An Afrlran t'litrnlate Parroamlad hf Mallrlad Warriors. n acquaintance of mine who htt Used tame considerable time In tbo upper reaches of tho Illnue tendt me an Interesting account of the meeting with the I'ulanl emlr of Oarua. Tho account at a piece of unwritten history his-tory affords an attractive peep Into a little-known world, where the picturesque pictur-esque hat not yet dlstppetred before the all-leveling properties of ilvlllia-ln ilvlllia-ln and the Maxim gun. It wat In August, 1896, anyt my rorretpondent. "when I was at Yola lYola It mi the Illnue, and It the capital capi-tal of the I'ulanl ttate of Adamawa, one nf Hoknto'a tributary provlncei), on the floating hulk Africa, anchored off the town, that n native came and told me the emlr nf (lorua had arrived ! and wot waiting on the river bank to see me I went on ihore. and wat rewarded re-warded by a very picturesque tight, Seated on a grast mat wat n man of about 40 years of age. A tall, lithe, finely nude, hlgh-cntte Ktilanl, In color col-or almost white one of the pure breed, that has never Intermingled lth the native element. Hound hit shoulders hung a white robe, spotlessly spotless-ly clem, and lined with shining Indigo-dyed Indigo-dyed cloth He wore baggy green silk ' trouten and sandals; on bit head wat i fixed one of the enormout Ktno ttraw halt, tome three feet In circumference, lie wat surrounded by tome thirty or forty toldlen, armed with swords and spears and n few rides. What greatly struck mo wat the armor worn by the toldlen. They hid turcoata of chain mall nnd helmet on which tbe tun glinted. It made an extraordinary picture there In that wild place, too mllea In the Interior of the continent a fcene from tome medieval play In tavage Africa. The armor, I afterward ascertained, came from Ilornu. Tho emlr greeted me very cooly In tbe Fu-lanl Fu-lanl tongue and held out hla hand without rising. He hoped to receive a present, but I did not offer him one, and he wat too proud to atk. Wo parted after the usual Interchange of courtesies. It wat one of tho most Interesting Interview! 1 ever hid In Africa, or eltewhere, for the matter of that." I,ondon Olobe. |
