60 THE WORLD'S WONDERS. 



(magic). It was difficult to draw them away from the looking" 

 glass, but at length the pictures were examined. The Queen 

 was exhibited and explained, her subjects being described as 

 numerous as the white ants in UnA'oro. One of the pictures was 

 a three-quarter face, and they immediately asked why the lady 

 had only one ear. The same question of unity was asked respect- 

 ing the leg of a man on horseback why he had only one leg. 



Kubba Rega now asked why the women in various portraits 

 all looked at him ; wherever he moved their eyes followed him. 

 His chiefs discovered that the faces in the pictures were also 

 looking at them ; and the eyes followed them, whether they 

 moved to the right or left! This was " cojoor," which at 

 first made them feel uncomfortable. One of Mrs. Baker's 

 female servants would not remain by herself in this room, for 

 fear of " the eyes that stared at her." 



The musical box played various delightful airs, and Kabba 

 Rega remarked that it would be more convenient than an instru- 

 ment which required the study of learning, as " you might set 

 this going at night to play you to sleep, when you were too drunk 

 to play an instrument yourself, even if you knew how to do it." 

 This was his idea of happiness, to go to sleep drunk, assisted by 

 the strains of self-playing melody. 



Mrs. Baker's trinkets were begged for, but it was explained 

 that such things were private property belonging to the Sit 

 (lady). " The Sit ! the Sit ! the Sit ! " the young cub peevishly 

 exclaimed ; "everything that is worth having seems to belong to 

 the Sit!" 



KABBA REGA'S SATANIC ESCORT. 



EVERYWHERE the king went he was escorted by his body- 

 guards, called " Bonosoora," who looked and acted more like 

 incarnate devils than human beings. They were the same as the 

 " satanic guard " furnished by Kamrasi to Baker on his first trip, 

 to guard him from Unyoro to Lake Albert, described on page 189 

 of this book. The natives were in the habit of collecting in large 

 crowds around the camp, where they stood in open-mouthed 

 wonder watching all the proceedings. Now and then great ex- 



