The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1904-06-13
PERDlCARlS is
NOT SUFFERING
Captive Finds the Bandit Chief
a "G0od-Hearted Gentleman.
EXPECTS AsPEEDY RELEASE
LETTER WRITTEN FROM THE
OUTLAWS CAMP.

London, June 13-The Daily Mail this
morning publishes a letter written 10 A,
j. Dawson. the novelist and traveller,
by Ion Perdicaris, the American citi-
zen who was captured by Halsul, the
Moroccan bandit. 1t is dated at Issara-
don, June a, and says.
Nothing more startling and uneX-
pected than the circumstances OF our
capture could be imagined. A quiet
domestic dinner without guests, the
windows open, the tables a mass OF
flowers then suddenly like an ava
lauche the yelling onset OF Raisulrs
men-it was a classic scene Of rapiue
and confusion. Nor could it be easy
to conceive "a picture more wild and
gloomy than our forced Journeys in
fact the hbretJO was perfect
''It IS easy now 10 write In this
strain when we are assured that me-
eotiations for our release are cOuCiud-
Ing, but during the terrible twenty
four hours rive over rocks and bOuld-
ers, and through dense thickets
where our captOrs had at times liter
ally TO cat their way i'm order to avoid
the villages on the beaten tTaCk-Weu,
we had no such consolation then-none
of any sort indeed
After describing the dread which he
long has had of being kidnapped on ac-
count of his family, Perdicaris says;
Fears Were Unfounded.
You may conceive my feelings while
thus being dragged along by ruHans
who began their amiable attentions by
clubbing us with rifles and threaten
ing as with their murderOus looking
curved daggers. was astonished to
learn that cur fears were NOT really
well founded. We have learned that
release Of his own kabyles, unJustly,
or at least treacherously entrapped and
imprisoned by the bashaW OF Tangler, a
former friend ana foster brother Of
Raisuu, who had trusted this man and
had been betrayed. Whatever i'll he
may have done. the fact remains that
he was betrayed
"The ransom demanded is not so
much the price of our release as the
demand for their recOupiug of the
losses inflicted by order of the said
bashaw. from whom Raisui claims
payment.
Another startling surprise Is TO md
in RaiSui himself the most interesting
and EoOd-hearted native gentleman 1T
has been my good fortune to have
known. tt lis impossible not to like the
man. conscious as 1 am of the injury
an Tangier has suffered at his hands"
After dealing with some private
matters and referring to the courage OF
his wife and the mental anguish she
has endured, Mr.. Perdicaris expresses
the hope that some good win come of
tne trouble 10 Tangier and its people.
He then proceeds:
Says Not to Worry.
Meantime you must not worry about
us. I am writing this at the mouth OF
a handsome tent placed at our disposal
bv MOuIai Ali, the Wazzaui shereet.
The brightest episode of our deten-
tf0n here was our first sight of his and
Ills brother Mouli Ashmet's caravan,
accompanied by an armed court. Sig
ual guns nred by kabyles announced
the arrival of this welcome relief ex-
petition. which we saw later ON wind
ing along the hillside. Mouli Ali him
self has remained with US ever since
Indeed he and Raisui dine with US
every evening in the tent.
The climate Is admirable. and bet
ter site for a camp would be hard TO
find.
our release viii be very welcome,
but il is nat hand now, so you must
not pity us too much