The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1880-09-21
THE APPLE or DIscaap.

The town Of DuleigBO. which the Al
bsHiaHs are ordered by the possHs Of
EHE0ps 10 give W 10 PiaGky littls Mon
LsRegrO. lies % the Turkish side II tie
Adnziie sa4, Al . point opposite Eons
and Haplss, midway betwseh saCh. 1t
i called in that quarter u The earth
bod dkGeE-yO. About 500 people live
there, and are the Gillette descendants Of
the most formidable band Of pirates
that ever existed. II is a very old town,
as everything In that region is old be-
yond our western meaning Of the word.
One hundred and s~iKty-seven years be-
fore Christ the city surrendered To the
Romans. and received exemption from
taxation, aud its freedom. From 1900
70 IGOO the pirates held full sway. aud
in Ills y grrAt battle WAS lost there BY
the Venetians. Inthe seventeenth cen
tuTy D~uleignO became temporarily as
noted as Jerusalem on account Of the
successful assumptions Of an impOster
named SabbatAi, who proclaimed him
self the Messiah. Converts TO SabbatAi
were numbered by thousands in every
part Of Europe. His face WAS hand
some and his conduct austere and be-
coming 10 the part be played. He was
deeply yersed in the Talmud, and able,
through his fine education and general
earnestness Of demeanOr, ~ impose up
on all who came under his influence. As
his fame increased his responsibilities
widened, and IL became necessary that
he should depose the Sultan, the enemy
Of chritianity. He therefore set out
for Constantinople 10 confound the
Turk with his anathema- Owing 10 the
moral power which he had acquired,
thisepedition was not 80 crazy al af-
fair as might be imagined. However,
the Sultan met him with craft, temper
lied. and finally got him in his power.
Under threat Of execution the impostor
reDounced his claims and became aeon
vert To the Mussulmanis faith. lie
was then banished to Dulcigno, where,
such is the power Of faith, his former
disciples refused to accept the fact OF
his apostasy In any other light than as
a diyinely inspired means Of bringing
Islam TO his feet. The religion Of sab
batai OF lDulcigno continued TO thrive
until his death, and his tomb became n
shrine for fanatical pilgrims from Ger
many and France.
The harbor Of old Dulcigno Is one OF
the Oldest on the Adriatic, and the best
that exists on that harborless coast be-
tween the southern point OF Dalmatia
and the mouth Of the Drin. The haven
Is n sure safeguard from the south wind
the fierce sirocco, but is exposed on
Its northern side. When the pirates
were captured, in the sixteenth century,
this harbor wal the scene Of the con-
iagration of 500 Of their ships, n lustr-
alton that at one blow forever purged
the whole Adriatic Sea. In 1878 the
Montenegrins took Dulcigno by storm,
most Of the Turkish garrison having
previously got away by sea Austria,
however. at the Berlin congress, object
ed to its retention by Montenegro. Au-
stria is chagrined by the present cession
OF Dulcigno to Montenegro. The little
country Of hereditary fighters Is an un
welcome neighbor, and its liability to
also want Scutari In the near future dis
turbs the Austrians. The Dalmatian
tongue Of land which Austria is COM
PEELED to guard SO jealousy, Is ut all
times open to the forays OF the Mon
tenegrins, and the stronger they be-
come, the greater the danger to Au-
stria.
The Montenegrins, intrenched in
their mountain Businesses, n never be
extirpated by their enemies. Their
position is rs im~pregnable rs was the re-
treat OF Captain Jack in the lava beds.
There is a vitality in their race which
would seem to prophesy great POSSIBLE
tiles should they ever drift into the
Roman role Of conquest.