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Show American Citizen Held by Bandits Tells of His Surprise, Capturo and. Treatment by Raisuli, the Moroccan Outlavr. LONDON, June 13. The Dally Mail this morning publlyhes a letter written tp A. J. Dnwcon, the novelist nov-elist and traveler, by Ion Pcrdl-caris, Pcrdl-caris, the American citizen who was captured by Italsull, the JUoroccan bandit, ban-dit, II is dated at Tssaradon, June 4, and says: "Nothing more startling and unexpected unex-pected than the circumstances of our capture could be imagined. A quiet domestic dinner without gucstn. the window.? open, the table a must? of llowers; then suddenly, like an avalanche, ava-lanche, the yelling onset of Raisull'a men it was a classic of rapine and confusion. Nor could it be cany to conceive a picluie more wild and gloomy than our forced journey; In fact, the libretto was perfect. "It Is easy now to write In this strain, when we are assured that nc-gotiationfj nc-gotiationfj for our release arc concluding; conclud-ing; but during that terrible twenty-four-hour ride over rocks and boulders,' and through dense thickets where our captors had at times literally to cut their way, in order to avoid the villages cn the beaten track well, wc had no such consolation then none of any sort, Indeed." After describing the dread which he long has had of being kidnaped, on account of his family, Perdlcarls pays: "You may conceive my feelings while thus being dragged along by ruffianw who began their amiable attentions bj 'clubbing us with rifles and threatening us with their murderous-looking curved daggers. 1 wan astonlPhed to learn that our fears were not really well founded. We have learned that Raisu-ll's Raisu-ll's chief object In to secure the release of members of his- own Kabylcs, unjustly, un-justly, or at least treacherously, entrapped en-trapped und Imprisoned by the Bashaw of Tangier, a former friend and foster-brother of Raitmll, who had trusted this man and had been betrayed. "Whatever "What-ever ill he may have done, the fact remains re-mains thai he was betrayed. "The ransom -demanded is not vo much the price of our release a the demand for their recouping of the losses Inflicted by order of the said Bashaw, from whom Raisuli claims payment." '"Another ftartllng surprise is to find in Raisuli himself the mos-t interesting interest-ing and good-hearted native gentleman It has been my good fortune to have known. It Is impossible not to like the man, conscious as T am of the Injury In-jury all Tangier has sniffered ut his hand." After dealing with some private matters mat-ters and referring to the courage of his wife and the mental anguish she has endured, Mr. Perdicaris expresses the hope thai some good will come of the trouble to Tangier and Its people. He then proceeds: "Meantime you must not worry about us. I am writing this nt the mouth of a handsome tent placed at our disposal by Moulal Ali, the YVnz-zani YVnz-zani shereef. The brightest episode of our detention here was our first sight of his and his brother's fMouli Ash-met'p) Ash-met'p) caravan, accompanied by an armed court. Signal guna fired by Kabyles announced the arrival of this welcome relief expedition, which we saw later on winding along the hillside. hill-side. Moull Ali himself has remained with us ever since. Indeed, he and nalsuli dine with us every evening in the tent. "The climate is ndmirable and a better bet-ter site for a camp would be hard to find. "Our release would be very welcome, but it is at hand now. so you must not pity us too much " |