S02 THE GREAT JOURNEY FROM SEA TO SEA. 
Each carries two spears, and an oddly-formed shield, originally 
oval, but cut into deep scallops, and having at every point a pendant 
tuft of hair. Their heads are decorated in a most curious manner, 
some of the men wearing a crescent-like ornament, and some tying 
round their heads wreaths made of different materials, to which a 
horn, a bunch of beads, a dried lizard, or some such ornament, is 
appended. 
Not deficient in personal courage, their spirits were cheered in 
combat by the certainty of reward or punishment. Should they 
behave themselves bravely, treasures would be heaped upon them, 
and they would receive from their royal master plenty of cattle and 
wives. But if they behaved badly, the punishment was equally 
certain and most terrible. A recreant soldier was not only put to 
death, but holes bored in his body with red-hot irons until he died 
from sheer pain and exhaustion. 
PICTURESQUE REVIEW OF THE WARRIORS. 
Now and then the king held a review, in which the valiant and 
the cowards obtained their fitting rewards. These reviews offered 
most picturesque scenes. ''Before us was a large open sward, with 
the huts of the queen's Kamraviono or commander-in-chief beyond. 
The battalion, consisting of what might be termed three companies, 
each containing two hundred men, being drawn up on the left 
extremity of the parade ground, received orders to march past in 
single file from the right of companies at a long trot, and re-form 
again at the end of the square. 
"Nothing conceivable could be more wild or fantastic than the 
sight which ensued; the men all nearly naked, with goat or cat skins 
depending from their girdles, and smeared with war colors, accord¬ 
ing to the taste of the individual; one-half of the body red or black, 
the other blue, not in regular order; as, for instance, one stocking 
would be red, and the other black, whilst the breeches above would 
be the opposite colors, and so with the sleeves and waistcoat. 
Every man carried the same arms, two spears and one shield, 
held as if approaching an enemy, and they thus moved in three lines 
of single rank and file, at fifteen or twenty paces asunder, with the 
