The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1904-06-23
American Praises Morocco Br,ganc.

! TANGIER. June 12.-J. w. S. Ian
| german, commissioner of the Moroccan
| section at the st. Louis Exposition, ~
rived here today from the camp OF
81 met RaissouH and his band, fully
armed and suspicious of the visit. For
few moments the situation was crit
zeal, but all passed off we'll. Ion Perdi-
caris, the American whom Raissouli
holds captive, is much better and in
| good spirits over the prospect of his
speedy release"
LONDON, June 12.-An extremely in
teresting letter, written in Brigand
Raissoulis camp in remote Morocco,
has just been received by A. J. Daw-
son, from Ion Perdicaris. The letter
is remarkable for the whole-hearted
tribute it pays to the personal qualities
and fascinating manner of the bandit.
It is dated 'Assaradon (Beniares), Sat
urday, June A. and is as follows:
Nothing more startling and unex-
pected than our capture could be i'm
agined. We happened to have no
guests. You can picture one of our
quiet dinners at Aidonie, the CONVERSE
ton in an easy domestic vein, the win
dows all open, the table mass of flow
ers, and suddenly like an avalanche, a
yelling onset of Raissoulis men-a
classic scene of rapine and confusion.
Nor would it be easy to conceive a
picture more wild and gloomy than
that of our forced journey-Varley's
and mine. It is easy now to write in
this strain, when we are assured ne
gotiations for our release are being con-
Guided and we shall very soon be re-
stored to our friends, but during the
terrible twenty four hours ride over
rocks and boulders and through the
dense thicket, where our captors had at
times literally to cut their way in
order to avoid villages on the beaten
track-well, we had no such consola-
ton then; none of any sort, indeed.
1.-The dread of one day being seized
and held for a ransom has of late
been one of the anXieties of my life
in Morocco. You will remember our
talk about it at Elminzah few months
ago. So, thinking of Mrs. Perdicaris
and the young people, you may per-
haps conceive something of my feel
ings when We found ourselves being
dragged along those difficult and peril
Gus paths by a gang of ruffians Who
had begun their amiable attentions by
clubbing us with their rifles and
threatening US with their murderous
looking curved daggers.
Il was astonished to learn that our
fears We're not really well founded.
We have learned that Raissouli's chief
object is to secure the release of men,
bers of his own kabyle unjustly, or at
least treacherously, entrapped and i'm
prisoned by the Pasha of Tangier, a
former friend and foster brother of
Raissouh himself RaissouH had trust
ed him and been betrayed.
The sum demanded by RaissouIi is
not so much a price for our release
as a demand for the making good OF
the losses inflicted by order of the
said Pasha, from whom Raissouli
claims payment.
Another startling surprise was to
find in RaissouH himself the most in
teresting and kindly hearted native
gentleman it has been my good for
tune to have known. 1t is impossible
not to like the man, conscious as
am of the injury 1 and all at Tangier
have suffered, at his hands,