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STIRRING SCENES
IN
SAVAGE LANDS.
AN ACCOUNT OF
THE MANNERS, CUSTOMS, HABITS AND RECREATIONS, PEACEFUL AND
WARLIKE, OF THE UNCIVILISED WORLD.
BY
JAMES GREENWOOD,
AUTHOR OF “WILD SPORTS OF THE WORLD,”
“A NIGHT IN A WORKHOUSE,” ETC.
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BY THE SAME AUTHOR.
THE WILD MAN AT HOME;
OR,
_Pictures of Life in Savage Lands_.
ANALYSIS OF CONTENTS.
PART VII.
SAVAGE KINGS AND COURTS.
CHAP. XVII.--The savage considered as a child of nature--what he
lives for--kings by birth--a king to be wished dead--Commander
Forbes’ introduction to the King of Dahomey--formalities to
be observed on approaching Dahoman royalty--the palace hedged
in with human skulls--a saltatory welcome--Gezo king of
kings--his majesty “stands a drain”--grand display of rum and
gunpowder--the ceremony of Eh-bah-tong-ah-bah, or exhibition
of the king’s wealth--the red pool at the threshold--Dahoman
“half-heads”--King Gezo the “leopard” and the “hawk”--items
of his majesty’s wealth--“One washing pan, seven pans of
skulls, and a grandmother”--an umbrella ornamented with eighty
jaw bones--the probable value of the whole lot--great cry
and little wool--the ceremony of Ek-que-noo-ah-toh-meh or
the throwing of presents--the king’s platform and the hungry
mob below--how his majesty was dressed--rum and tobacco and
cowries showered to the people--kings and ambassadors joining
in the scramble--the human sacrifices and the expectant
savages--feed us! “we are hungry”--the victims launched into
the pit--a recent grand custom--“Little Popo, August 6th,
1862”--glad to see a Dutchman--the Dutchman’s reception by the
king--exhibition of a crucified missionary--an earthquake in
the midst of a “custom”--twenty-four live men thrown to the
hungry ones--sixteen women, four horses, and one alligator
sacrificed--Bullfinch Lamb--his evidence as to what Dahomey
of old was like--£10,000 demanded by the king as Bullfinch’s
ransom--he writes home describing his misery--he shows himself
a fox rather than a Lamb--Bullfinch wins the king’s heart
by making him a kite--the kingdom of Abó and its ruler--Mr.
Baikie’s approach to the royal residence--a palace of mud and
thatch--King Ishúkuma--royal robes--the king’s sister acts as
“crier” to the “court”--King Ajé--his shoeless feet and his red
nightcap--Ajé gives Mr. Baikie his “dash”--Baikie’s visit to the
terrible Neam Nam--some of his followers flee at the mere sight
of the town--the ogres surround the adventurers--prospects of
a jolly feast--prospects blighted--a friend in need--“Look at
the things they hold in their hands; touch them not”--wonderful
effects of a gun shot--a ticklish moment--the good will
of the cannibals secured--the Fernandian town of Issapoo
and Browowdi the king--Mr. Hutchinson’s description of the
Browowdi palace--the king’s rig: “a filthy old stool for a
throne, an old bamboo-leaf hat for a crown”--a coronation at
Issapo--what his newly-made majesty may eat, and what he must
leave alone--royalty in Old Kalabar--King Eyamba--the State
carriage _alias_ “the white man’s cowhouse”--comical use of a
carriage--the Egbo drum--Aqua-el-dere or chop-day at Duketown--a
royal feast--ju-ju wood and palaver sauce--interesting mode
of feeding at the royal table--“King Eyo Honesty”--how he
keeps the Sabbath--his band--the order of Egbo--how it is
constituted--its similitude to free-masonry--Idem and his
terrible cow-hide whip--his outrageous privileges--Egbo
bells--Brass Egbo day--Egbo trials and criminals--the “Bloodmen”
of Duketown--the Mambo of Lunda--his magnificent attire and
how he held court--his Muata Cazembe or prime minister--the
Muata’s seven umbrellas--the Mambo’s wives--the election of a
Jaga--singular ceremony attending it--how the Jaga selects a
site for a palace--the novel rite of Sambamento--the unfortunate
Nicango--his fate. Pages 1–137.
CHAP. XVIII.--Royalty in Southern Africa--Doctor Livingstone
and Shinte--King of Makololo--the king’s crown of beads and
goose feathers--the doctor’s reception--his majesty’s hundred
wives and his wife in chief--the royal piano and the four
pianists--the doctor and his followers fall into the hands of
Manembo, a South African chieftess--she gives her guests a bit
of her mind--her advice to Dr. Livingstone--“now, my little man,
do as the rest have done”--from South Africa to Abyssinia--Mr.
Stern among the Falashas--he commits a grave breach of court
etiquette--an Abyssinian cure for melancholy--Mr. Bruce’s
experience of the cure--Bruce’s introduction to the Lady
of Sittina--her splendid attire--Bruce’s gallantry by no
means surprises the lady--he volunteers a piece of wholesome
advice as a physician--a delicate conversation--the King of
Seenaar--how he was greased--a cure for red hair--the throne
in Madagascar--Madame Ida Pfieffer’s introduction to the
queen--paying your “footing”--her majesty neither cordial
nor over polite--a Malagasey palace--its chief pillar--five
thousand labourers to bring it home--death of fifteen thousand
builders--the silver palace--ceremony observed on the death
of a Malagasey king--the feast of the queen’s bath--great
rejoicing on the occasion--the Malagasey army and the military
band--wretched condition of the soldiery--a handful of rice food
for a day--a Malagasey court ball--ball dresses--the “Segu”
dance--niggardly behaviour of her majesty. Pages 38–53.
CHAP. XIX.--Borneo and the Borneans--installation of a
Dayak-rajah--_Hot_ council and _Cold_ council--ceremony of
election as described by Baiah Brooke--“may the government be
cold”--a visit to the chief of the Grungs--capture by the old
women--revolting customs--a Dayak dance--more physicking--Corea
and the Great Loo Choo Islands--the chief of Corea--his
visit to the British ship “Lyra”--dignified behaviour of the
chief--his uproarious attendants--he orders an arrest--a cheap
entertainment--punishment of the arrested one--the chief loses
his temper and makes free use of his rod of office--the court
of king Finow--marriage of his eldest daughter to the great
chief Tooitonga--the bride’s anointing and her bridal robes of
superfine mats--the bridesmaids--the marriage feast--twenty
baked hogs--the music and dancing--King John of Adelaide,
Australia--his death and trussing and roasting--horrible
ceremony--The roast king’s dutiful _lubras_--a mummy “up a gum
tree”--King John the thickest headed king ever known--his skull
to prove it--dying fate of the common Bushman--enticing away
the “spirit that kills”--the Bushman’s grave--Bushman mourning
customs. Pages 54–66.