142 THE KING'S BROTHER, M'XAXAGEE. 
great amusement, and they clapped their hands and 
laughed with joy at the resemblance to the original. 
All the princesses living in separate houses got jealous 
unless they saw the sketches, so that my servant was 
several times detained a whole day by them; and it 
became so fashionable to look at the pictures, that for 
days my camp was beset with people wishing to have 
their curiosity gratified. M'nanagee, the brother of 
the sultan, a man of six feet three inches in height, 
brought his favourite bow to be ornamented with 
pictures. There never was a prettier bit of stick ; it 
was exactly his own height, of ash-coloured wood, bent 
merely at the ends, balanced beautifully, not a curve in 
it that could hurt the eye, and it was strung with the 
sinews of a cow. He could with ease throw an arrow, 
by giving it a high flight, 150 or 200 yards. Wishing 
to enlighten and amuse Eumanika, I sent him coloured 
pictures of our soldiers, and of men in ordinary costume; 
these he admired very much, but could I not show him 
how our ladies looked ? Certainly. Figures of three 
ladies were painted — one in morning costume, one at 
an archery meeting using the bow and arrow, and a 
third in ball costume. He immediately hung all up 
on the wall of his small hut ; and on inquiring which 
figure pleased him most, the palm was given to the 
evening costume. 
Whenever he wished to spend the day at a spot on 
the hill across the lake, where I think his father had 
been interred, he was carried in a basket, made of 
osiers, by four men. The band led the way with 
music ; several hundred followers surrounded him ; 
and if he was on the return journey, small fat boys, 
having their heads wreathed with water-lilies plucked 
