Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 April 1895 — KING OF DAHOMEY. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

KING OF DAHOMEY.

Good Specimen of African Royalty Is Here Presented. A good specimen of African royalty Is the new king of Dahomey, Agoliagbo. He is 35 years of age, and a

brother of the late king. Agoliagbo is tall, dignified an d attractive from an African point of view. He i s very particular in matters of dress, wearing a garment of siik and particolored satin, fastened around the waist and held ai, his shoulder by one

of h:<; numerous attendants. On his head he wears a turban with three cockades, and hanging down in front of his face, like a horse's nose bag, is a little silver sieve, supposed to strain ttie gnats and bad smells of Dahomey out of the air which his Majesty breathes. Many women attend him. One drives away flies, another fans him, another looks after his umbrella, and a fourth attends to his smoking apparatus. The French are responsible for his coronation.

AGOLIAGBO.