New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1894-12-09

munger But. according to the missionary, he
had reached the Mahdi in safety and had lived
at Omdurman for several years before finally
succumbing to fever.
Out in Cochin China the French troops en-
gagged in their relentless warfare against the
bloodthirsty pirates called BLACK Flags" who
lnfeSt the coasts and especially the great rivers
every now and again discover that the chiefs
whom they succeed in capturing European
renegades. men who have long been believed
dead and reported missing. but who turn out
TO be merely deserters from civilization who
have adopted all the vices and barbarism of the
worst and most degraded types of Orientals re-
taining vestigc Of civilization save the white
color Of their skin. &C their names the ones
which | can recall at the present moment are
those of two Frenchmen. Caussade and Martin
and Of a Dane long resident at San Francisco
and named OberE.
The British authorities in India we'll aware
that there aie numbers of EngishwOmen. chiefly
the daughters Of officers killed during the great
Sepoy mutiny. who are wearing out their lives
In captivity behind the bars Of native zenanas
Some of them were mere irfants At the time Of
their capture. while there are others who were
already grown up when they first became
willing inmates of the harem. Being no longer
young, these latter would have been released
long since had not their owners feared the pun
shment that would he melted out to them by
the British authorities. were il To he known that
they had detained Englishwomen in their Zenanas
against their Will officers and soldiers who took
part in the great mutiny. with whom have
conVersed on the subject. have often drawn my
attention to Che fact that. whereas the British
troops found the remains IT thousands of Eng
lshmen and elderly Englishwomen who had been
massacred by tho natives at Cawnpore. Delhi
Meerut and other places. they never found the
COrpses of any young girls of female infants
and the case Of n Captain Ryan Of the Gwalior
contingent, was cited amcng others as an Illus
tra..On Of this peculiarly. When order was re-
csta hlished after the mu,inV the remains OF
CAPTAIN RYAN and his wife We're discovered. BNt
NJ trace whatsoever could be found of the three
little daughters Of the captain. nor of the four
or five young unmarried ladies who wer" on In
innate terms with Mrs. Ryan, and who on the
outbreak Of the Instruction had sought refuge
beneath her Roof. More than once has the ques-
ton been debated by the police magistrates in
India as to whether IL would not he possible 10
agreed however that the project Is lmIoSsiple
II Is against The policy OF the Government to IN
terfere with native prejudices and few Of these
are so strong as those connected with the SEN
timcnt Of harem lfe.
Just as there is no conclusive evidence or the
death Of Colonel Flatters Of General Gordon and
of Dr. Lechhardt. SO Is IL quite on the cards
that We may one day learn Of the reappoar-
ance among the haunts Of men Of the long-niss-
ing Archduke John. Of Austria, who vanished on
a voyage from Huenos Ayres 10 Valparaiso: OF
the late Earl ~ Aberdeen. who disappeared In
n similar manner while serving as a common
sailor before the mast or a vessel hound from
New-York to San Francisco and OF many oth"fS
now reported as dead but who are merely miss
Ing There is scarcely a civilized nht"n winch
cannot furnish instances of mysterious uisdPp'"
ances Of the same character. any one If when
would supply far better than mere IMAGINATION:
ample and realistic material for a noNcl. "nlIed
AZ ~ From the Dead" EX-ATTACHE.