The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-06-13
LETTER FROM PERDlCARIS
KIDNAPPED AMERICAN WRITES
 OF HIS EXPERIENCES.


 Than His Capture-Clubbed with
 Rifles and Threatened With Daggers
 on the March--Treated After His Ar-
 rival in Camp With Utmost Kindness
 by Raisuli--Has Splendid Headquar-
 ters--Expects Release Soon.
 London, June 1S.-The Daily Mail this morning publishes a letter written to A. J. Dawson, the novelist and traveller, by Ion Perdicaris, the American citizen who was captured by Raisuli, the Mo- roccan bandit. It is dated at Tssaradon, June 4, and says:
 Nothing more startling and unex- pected than the circumstances of our capture could De imagined. A quiet domestic dinner without guests, the windows open, the table mass of flow CTS, then suddenly, like an avalanche, the yelling onset of Raisuli's men--it was a classic scene of rapine and con- fusion; nor would it be easy to conceive a picture more wild and gloomy than our forced journey; in fact, the libretto was perfect.
 Tt is easy now to write in this strain when we are assured that negotiations for our release and concluding, but dur ing that terrible twenty-four hours ride over rocks and bouders and through dense thickets, where our cap- tors had at times literally to cut their way in order to avoid the villages on the beaten track-well, we had no such consolation then-none of any sort, in deed.''
 After describing the dread which he long had had of being kidnapped on account of his family MT. Perdicaris says:
 You may conceive my feelings whilst thus being dragged along by ruffians who began their amiable attentions by clubbing us with rifles and threatening us with their murderous looking curved TS. that our fears were not really we'll founded. We have learned that Raisu- His chief object is to secure the release of members of his own kabyle, unjustly or at least treacherous entrapped and imprisoned by the bashaw of Tangler, former friend and foster brother of Raisuli who had trusted this man and had been betrayed. Whatever i'll he may have done, the fact remains that he was betrayed.
 tThe ransom demanded it not so much the price of our release as the demand for the recouping of the losses inflicted by order of the said bashaw, from whom Raisuli claims payment. Another startling surprise is to find in Raisuli himself the most interesting land kindly -hearted native gentleman lit has been my good fortune to have known. It is impossible not to like the man, conscious as I am of the injury all at Tangier suffered at his hands" After dealing with some private mat ters and referring to the courage of his wife and the mental anguish she has endured MT. Perdicaris expresses the hope that some good will come of the trouble to Tangier and it's people. He then proceeds
 Meantime you must not worry about us. I am writing this at the mouth of a handsome tent placed at our disposi- tion by Moulai Ali, the Wazzani Sher- eef. The brightest episode of our de- | tention here was our first sight of his and his brothers, Moulai Ashmet's, caravan, accompanied by an armed es- cort. Signal guns fired by three ka- byles, leagued in defense of their rights under Raisuli's leadership, announced l the arrival of this welcome relief expe- dition, which we saw later on winding along the hillside.
 "Moulai Ali himself has remained with us ever since. Indeed, he and Raisuli dined with us every evening in 1 the tent.
 t*The climate is admirable, and a bet ter site for camp would be hard to | find.
 Our release will be very welcome, but it is at hand now, so you must not Ipity us too much"