Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1885-11-20
IkNxiBAR's PRINCESS.
4 Tale OF Love and Diplomacy from
the African Csast.


Washington Letter in >. \. Tribune. J
The reading world vas inferB-d q
few DAYS ago by cable dlsp4'cn fr N
Z,1zibar. that the S1ltan's sister aud
family. for maay year. resident Ia Bsr
lin, h4vs arrived taere GA the Germ ~
sisamer Enrepfel-. and that tue mn
.uandsr OF toe German Squadron, Ad-
mlraI kn rr. cl.Ins in her behalf, some
couasc.t 4 p rson4l property Of lie
t.igulug Sa,tsD. sid Big 50 Ben SID.
The /, n=t uIly most Iuter, lit
lie romance Connected With tIls appar-
utlv dry d sp-tch, bat it also sheds
d rod of light gppn the dipl ,m. cy And
Otj cts of Germany IN It's persistent
seIfare upon the press ut ruler OF Z.s
bar.
Nineteen years ago the 2 NJ bar
oran7n of a certain Hamburg .,n. rcan-
tile house Was under the sup.r utend
-nre IF a handsome young u rns4
tDerch ,at whose blu. eyes AMI gold n
hair III ide sad havoc with the neart
the youthful sister of the reigninR Sui
tan, Said BIreo.h. She fell desperately
IN 1--we with him, aud tie r.'mant c
Young merchant requiied her affection.
he gave up bis position and lied ~llh
the eIri, escaping pursuit aud r,s,niu2
Germany. Tney settled down at Ber,ir 4,
where they were married after tie
African Princess lad embraced Carts
tisRity. Bat in their case, to-, thu
course of true love never dia rsn
smooth. aud the haughtv relatives of
the young merchant turned the cold
shoulder to the new accession from the
E asst. All efforts to secure a new foot
hold in bis native land We're in Vain;
one commercial venture after another
in which he engaged failed. and
after a few years of hsrdships,
sorrow, disappointment and uudus
exertion carried him into an
untimely grave. The Princess, now the
mother Of two children. a boy and a
girl, then stood alone and helpless in
the world; all efforts to conciliate her
brother, the Sultan. were in vain. al
though strong Engli-h and German in
faencss were brought to bear upon him.
she Shove herself equal to the emer-
vency, however. Possessed of v ondrous
linguistic talent, she had mastered the
German language III ,rOughlv, and soon
managed 10 earn competence by CIV.
ing grammatical INSTRUCTIONS IN Arabic.
The correspondent of German daily.
who visited her at Berlin some years
aga, described her as slender lady OF
medium hight, with expressive face and
strong, yet womanly, soft features,
slightly brouzed complexioo, Jet black,
bright eyes, and long, straight black
hair. Her children have a very light
csnplexion.
She has now returned, as the cable
tells the story further, to her native
land to claim her own. In doing so 81 g
is backed by the strong arm of Primo
Bismarck. the picker-up of uncousid-
cred colonial trifies, at whose direction
the powerful fleet of Germany has been
nenscing her stubborn brother, the
Snltan Said Boreosh. SO long already
Shoald he yield to GermaDy's demands
for the restoration of his sisters prop
erty, il will not be long before some pre-
text will be found to harass him again,
especially after bis SISTERS son, now
fast approaching mans estate, shall
have become firmly established in the
native land of his mother, where, in all
probability, he will become the center
and leader of all disaffected and hos
tile elements, and some flee day it need
not surprise his piaymates at Berlin
and the reading world ut large to learn
that he has bern made Sultan of y inzi-
bar Should he resist. Said Burgosh
nsy be d-throned ut once and the
young prince put in his place. But this
Young man, bprs to a German father
upon German soil, IL. accOrdIss to we'll
r-cOQn' q ID iutsrnatio> al pri clples gov.
erniug nationality. = G-rmao, snbj ,ct
of the Emperor William. and bis ac
oasSion to the throne nf M har won a
vIrtnaliy mean An ab.urp ion of thai
now SO important territory by Ger
many, and fresh triumph for .he new
coloni. Il policy Of the willy Gsrman
Chancellor,