338 VISIT OF THE KING OF THE PAPELS TO BISSAO. 
the same colom% fastened at the knees with crystal buckles; 
his spindle shanks were covered with white stockings ; but from 
habit he walked without shoes ; on his liead he wore a round 
hat, and had on a white shirt and white neckcloth. Two gold 
rings hung from his ears, and two others of iron were on his 
fingers ; the noise he made by rubbing them together, inces- 
santly served to announce his arrival. This Negro was so 
uncomfortable in his European costume, that he might have 
been taken for a wicker effigy : his minister wore a hat, and a 
pagne of blue cloth, and held a parasol over the head of the 
king ; a white serjeant, who no doubt supplied the place of the 
p-overnor of Bissao, was on the left of this African monarch. 
A confused multitude of Papels, some armed with pikes, others 
with sabres and muskets, all nearly naked, formed the retinue 
of his sable majesty. The acclamations of the people of Bissao 
accompanied him to the governor's house, to whom he pre- 
sented a bullock which was led along in his train ; he received 
in return a good stock of brandy. In the evening, the muskets 
announced the departure of the potentate for his capital ; his 
step was less firm than in the morning, indeed he would have 
fallen but for the aid of his minister, who supported him in 
his arms : the festivities were prolonged during the night, in 
honour of the restoration of peace. The inhabitants of Bissao 
were intoxicated with joy at the re- establishment of concord 
between the two nations. 
By such acts of weakness, the Portuguese have contrived, 
