New-York tribune., 1906-09-16

Of Charles 1ro-s. vro. having been raa-ooned
there a decade previously hy trading N'sS''
had become the chief 81 tFa savage trih" ny
vb,cb N. island Was inhabited. irons. according
IN the account Of tie sailors of ;he fe" ks'Ui-'
had become to all injents and purposes SAVAGE
himself dispensing with garments and s'aiA-
ing about IKE Adam before the fall hut had ~
less than seven dusky EVes. He absolutely IL
fused 10 leave the island on board me Nesse'
which ultimately rescued the sailors. announcing
that re- preferred his life among the natives To
ANYTHING that civilization could offer. and tha'
he had made up his mind 10 spend the rema'h"er
Of his days there.
In British India there have been in the las'
thirty or forty years number of Eneilsn'''e,'
who vie,atnr 10 some uonomania. have adopted
the role Of fakir. and who have ended their Gays
as such. suhiecting themselves to all those dread
full forms Of asceticism and Of penance practiseu
by the Indian dervishes. Mentally unbalanced
as they undoubtedly have been. they are in every
re.pect more worthy Of sympathy and interest
than those degraded Europeans who. partly IN
CONSEQUENCE Of mere shiftlessness and inability
20 earn livelihood and partly in consequence OF
degenerate tastes developed by a residence In the
morally tainted atmosphere Of the Orient any
themselves with the most degraded and lowest
class of natives in India the very contact OF
whose shadow Is regarded by the high class
Hindoo as a dehlement Inasmuch as II is the
prestige of the white man and the native oenet
in his superiority which alone enable England
10 exercise with a mere handful Of soldiers ana
civilian officials autocratic II benehcent sway
over the vast empire Of Hindostan. with Its
teeming population Of 30OOOOOO0 II VIII readily
be understood that the white pariah is not only
= source Of trouble hut even Of danger 20 the
Rritish government at Calcutta
Then there are the men who have been driven
by some great Injustice At their expense. or oy
some domestic tragedy. 10 withdraw from CIVIL
ization Thus AT FL Kef. in Southern Tunis
there has Just died in the odor Of Moslem sane
tity a sheik who for more than a generation had
been venerated by the natives as a particularly
holy dervish under the name OF Sidi Achmet,
but who turns out to have been the son Of one
Of Napoleon IFS most powerful ministers OF
state. M Lefebvre Duruffe In the palmy days
AT the Tuneries he was one of the gayest MEM
bers OF the imperial court. and. becoming imph-
Gated in a love affair which eliminated in fatal
duel and IN the suicide of the woman. he shook
the dust OF France from off his feet. migrated
10 Africa. became a convert 10 Islam, and such
an adept in its lore that he actually in
trusted with the role Of imam Cpreacher) and of
teacher Of Moslem theology at the graf uniYer-
sity Of Kairuan. in Tunis.
Resides those who owe their fall from grace
and their inclusion IN the category OF the white
pariahs 10 the unbridled license Of life in the
East which has accomplished not only their
moral but also their material ruin, there are
those undesirable whites who turn up in the Fa'
Orient because they have made Europe and
America too hot for their health. IL may be
questioned whether these are not the most dan
gerous class OF all the white trash in the Orient
since not content with mere exile from civiiza-
ton. they become its bitterest foes and the most
relentless enemies OF the white races. especially
OF their former fellow countrymen. Every now
and again the American authorities in the Philip
pines find themselves called upon 70 deal with
some white who has allied himself to those
various hostile Malay tribes. such the MOrOs
and others. for the purpose OF outrage and crime
| Ii IS a well known fact that there is a large
| sprinkIlng OF white men among the pirates by
which the rivers and coasts Of China are in
| tested, and whose nefariOus activity in Cochin
! China keeps a large body OF French troops busy
! all the year round. Time and again have the
French officials engaged in hunting the so-called
Black Flags" discovered that the latter were
/ led by white deserters from civilization. who had
adopted al the vices and barbarisms OF the very
I worst type of the Oriental. retaining vestige
Of ciyiIizat ton. save the hue Of their skin. OF
their names the ones I can recall at the present