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 .. . / ^ I (380) STANLEYS GREAT JOURNEY FROM SEA TO SEA. 381 a single cockade at the back of the head, while the pages are distin-guished by two cockades, one over each temple, so that, even if they hap-pen to be without their turbans, their rank and authority are at once indi-cated. When the king sends the pages on a message, a most- pic-turesque sight is presented. All the commands of the
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 .. . / ^ I (380) STANLEYS GREAT JOURNEY FROM SEA TO SEA. 381 a single cockade at the back of the head, while the pages are distin-guished by two cockades, one over each temple, so that, even if they hap-pen to be without their turbans, their rank and authority are at once indi-cated. When the king sends the pages on a message, a most- pic-turesque sight is presented. All the commands of the king have to bedone at full speed, and when ten or a dozen pages start off in a body,their dresses streaming in the air behind them, each striving to outrun theother, they look at a distance like a flight of birds rather than humanbeings. Here, as in many other countries, human life, that of the king ex-cepted, is not of the least value. On one occasion Mtesa received a newrifle with which he was much pleased. After examining it for sometime, he loaded it, handed it to one of his pages, and told him to goand shoot somebody in the outer court. The page, a mere boy, took therifle, went into the court, and in
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