New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1866-10-22
photographer in DlnieuIties in the Ease.

a A'ANhNtsAH
The traveller vamb6ry, contributing to the Lon;
don Argosy pleasant sketch Of his journey from
Teheran to Trebizond; tells this story of the ad-
ventures Of q French photographer, who was
taken captivelby the Turkomans:
Among the Europeans whom met must also
make mention of NJ. de Bloqueville, the most
costly Of all photographers, who, IN the service q
tile Shah took part in the expedition against the
Inrkomans III Rhiellhe had the misfortune to be
taken prisoner, and was at last released only on
payment of the enormous ransom or ten thousand
Educafs NJ. de Bloqueville, d perfect tfehch gen
teman, and withal an excellent and amahie Young
man following his natural bent for an atlyentur-.
aus life had made an excursion to Ia belle Perse.
To be doctor, which is the almost xeluslVe pro-
tfession of European adventures IN tne East,
| seemed TO him too common. He sought and at
4 last found in photography an art which, in that
| country, is less used up. The king immediately
| engaged him, and he was attached to the army Of
/ Khurassan III the capacity OF painter OF battle
nnces How oYerjoyed was the king at the
/ Thought that he had thus secured for the gallant
i feats of his heroic army an immortality OF glory
1 in which every one of them would be portrayed
4 as very Rustem Unfortunately fate had or.
/ dered it otherwise The twenty-five thousand
i Rns;ems were fallen upon by five thousand turko-
man robbers, and utterly routed:
T. No small part of them we're led away captive,
and from the great number OF slaves suddenly
4 thrown upon the market, many OF them were
six dueats. NJ. de Bloqueville was about to be fe
Il leased for the same sum, but the furkomans sus
peeted that the airhaired youth must be an exotic
II product More, therefore, was demanded for him
A and inasmueh as with every refusal on the part o.
the Persans the sum demanded was increased, a
last TIE court of Teheran had to consent to pay
ten thousand dueats for the French subject. This
:, however it would assuredly not have done, had
! not been that the great shah on the banks Of tn
Seine had informed them, through his ambassado
: BelIaunay that if the Persian king had no ducat
: wherewith to ransom his subject, he would lem
him bayonets. So terrible hint could not be dis
, Regarded, aud the money was paid but year an
II half had been already spent in negotiations
During this time N. de BloQueyille, sometime off
: Ger III a regiment Of guards, had very unpleas
!, ant position and leisure enough for studying th
: contrast between the life of a gentleman in tn
: Champs Elysees ana that of captive among tn
sTurkomans, loaded with irons both on neck an
I feet How often must the unfortunate French
Z man thought of gay Paris as he shivered in rag
!, beneath the insufficient shelter OF Turkoma
tent with outlets of horse desh the greatest eul
nary delieacy within reachl Yes, he had suftere
4 a great deal and as he saw me safely returne
I from the same country in which he had been
= slave, he wept for joy. He had better oppo
= tunities than any other of my friends of known
the reality of life in Central Asia, and could tn
appreciate better than the rest the hardships lhf
Il gone through.