Wonders of the tropics; or, Explorations and adventures of Henry M Stanley and other world-renowned travelers, including Livingstone, Baker, Cameron, Speke, Emin Pasha, Du Chaillu, Andersson, etc., etc .. . mi^y>. ONE OF MTESAS WIVES RESCUED FROM DEATH. of both. The novelty of interference made him smile, and the womanwas instantly released. On another occasion, when Mtesa had been out shooting, CaptainGrant asked what sport he had enjoyed. The unexpected answer wasthat game had been very scarce, but that he had shot a good many meninstead. Beside the pages who have been mentioned, there we
Wonders of the tropics; or, Explorations and adventures of Henry M Stanley and other world-renowned travelers, including Livingstone, Baker, Cameron, Speke, Emin Pasha, Du Chaillu, Andersson, etc., etc .. . mi^y>. ONE OF MTESAS WIVES RESCUED FROM DEATH. of both. The novelty of interference made him smile, and the womanwas instantly released. On another occasion, when Mtesa had been out shooting, CaptainGrant asked what sport he had enjoyed. The unexpected answer wasthat game had been very scarce, but that he had shot a good many meninstead. Beside the pages who have been mentioned, there were several STANLEYS GREAT JOURNEY FROM SEA TO SEA. 38a executioners, who were pleasant and agreeable men in private life, andheld in great respect by the people. They were supposed to be in com-mand of the pages who bound with their rope turbans the unfortunateswho were to suffer, and mostly inflicted the punishment itself. The king seems to have been rather exceptionally cruel, his very wivesbeing subject to the same capriciousness of temper as the rest of his sub-jects. Of course he beat them occasionally, but as wife beating is theordinary custom in Uganda, he was only following the ordinary habits ofthe p
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