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6 nation thai h<- has aroused Moorish historians have not been at much pains to tell in detail the impressive lesson of the extinction ol the pirates of old. All the Moors readily believe the tale that the Spaniards of the Tangier colony till. that in the Spanish-American Wai- it was the United States thai went down in utter defeat before the Spaniards. Few Moors travel. The mosque teachers inveigh against it. They threaten perdition to all who die without the geographical pale of the Moslem faith. The tales of our greatness brought back by Oriental Jewish merchants are sneered at as romances. The recent Anglo- French treaty, which will soon cause France t<> Ih 1 installed as the modem agent "• the queer land untouched by the passing of cen turies, may bring about a lone of allies to hunt down Moorish bandits. Such assist ance would beof value. The larger the force sent out. the more readily the desperadoes would \k* properly impressed. R a i s v 1 i a 1 w a y s claimed royal blood — the child of a holy man and a slave woman. ll ' wears the green burnoose that is the insignia "i a sherif — one who has blood descent fro m the Prophet His abode has lieen everywhere in the mountains When I knew •■! him hi band numbered two hun dred men. as well as fifty giant Nubians slaves from the caravans. He had a noble number of wives. His expeditions moved in a long string of laden camels and mutes. He and his men lived entin !y in tents. The tent of Kaisuli had the barbaric splendor of many colors, and ii (.enter pol had on the top a golden hall .i m.;u of the occupancy by royalty. Kaisuli was treated l»y his men as courtiers treat a Kin^,'. Wherever he went he was attended l>y two huge, N'uliian slaves. He. was a poet and a philosopher, and his flamboyant contributions are read at social gatherings ii the mosques. The minstrels in the coffee houses found him an ever pleasing subject for their son^s and stories. His first lessons in kidnapping were supplied by his own Government. Asa child Kaisuli lived among the Zemmur trilie in the interior. There, when he was .i youngster, the Sultan' force came one day on a tax gathering expedition, and when the tribesmen did not yield sufficient in money, cattle and sugar-loaves an«l grain, Raisuli and several other young men vvei taken to prison in Fez and held as captives until such time as the tribesmen should bring in the taxes demanded as the ransom of the prisoners. This kidnapping of young men from the tribes in arrears on the payment of the taxes is the favorite method ol the bashaws everywhere in Morocco for keeping their coffers Tilled. For a long time Raisuli and his Land con tented themselves with despoiling caravans in the interior. They did not seek to moles: the Europeans at Tangier. Indeed, their hiding places wire several days' journey from the sea port where is the big colony oi Europeans an the legations of all the Powers. The Moors of Tangier long had been accus tomed to the Europeans, and were decidedly friendly in every respect except as to the admission of Christians to the interior of the mosques. On this point they were sullen ami ti11.!... in. To bu sure, there is a warning issued by the officials to all Europeans that the Government will Ik- responsible for no indem nity in case of injury or robbery to Europeans going ;.!.out the city and it ; suburbs at night, unless they have furnished themselves with the i-m ■i" of two soldiers, for which service one pays ;ib ut fifty rents. This, however, was a pie, aution again: I the thieves and highwaymen who usually came into the big market place just outside the city gates in the wake of the car ivans. Bui live year ago Rai uli descended ■ n Tangier. lie had heard tales of the wealth "' the :•■■ ;•< .vi .. A ide, semi-circular beach Entrun< ■ la An.. .... Consulate ..t T....,-.» -r SUNDAY MAGAZINE for JULY 10. 1904 Torr.s. l"or«-ij',n Mir»i->t«-r uuisuie me gates <>i i angler on the Modi ; i.ii.i an >hore is the Spanish colony >>i the Moorish town. It numbers several thou sands. In .1 little, stone house, painted sky-blue, lived an old Spaniard with Ins married daughter, hei husband ami their two little children — Ramon and I'atahna 111 1 ■ rrez. The Spaniard ton- the repute of being .i miser who, though he went about in shabby clothing, really had a fortune thai would have enabled him to live in princely style had be cared to d>> so. Tins was tK :;.,^,ij> of the housewives, and it reached the camp 1 4 Raisuli. With only three >>! his followers, he toned his way into the little hoim. 1 by the sea and bore away the children. U'aring them from :tn- arms ot their parents, and killim; the desperati fatbrr. Tlu-n came the usual demands for the payment i>f .> heavy ransom. It was made u> the ol»| man Ii was in vain thai he protestc«l that h<- was not a mi-, r. that he had no wealth \l>- permitted representatives . ■• Kaisuti t<> search the home, and even dig about the premises, to satisfy them that no hidden gold was there. When the thus that the tales of the oil m.ni's wealth were false was tak< n to Rai uli hi chagrin was such thai he brought the little children to his t< -nt and had th-::i munk'red — indeed, some accounts have ii that it was his own scimiter that struck the fatal blows. For more than three years the fate of th children at the hands of their cm '. captor remained unknown; bui Professor Wistermark, th. noted traveler and sociological writer, who s;>e?it three years touring in Morocco gathering material for a hook concerning Oriental superstitions, brought Ii • k to Tangier the horrible story ■• the bandit's >!«.... >..:, \V«»ni.i. on ilv Op.-nin;; !>..> o f .!>.- : ..m .-i »•..,„... 1.. C ulif Ab'cl *.■! M..1.. t K Kaisuli undoubtedly feare.l ill Calif, who •■■:- M :::■.: h feared by the peasantry as himself, and he knew the the old man's ■•■'■•■•. might work to secure his betrayal It was a case of the matching of the wits of the authorized robber and the freebooter. Raisuli won. an.! put his old enemj to horrible teg tun jg revenue for the harassing he had undergone. He succeeded through the aid of the people of the Pahs. Their villages are only about live miles from Tangier. Indeed, from the cowl they easily can be made out with a good pan oi :ield--.;las>es. The CaKf had seized as hostage fof unpaid taxes the son of the chieftain of the Pahs people*. The youth was thrown into the black prison at Tangier. He only recent!? had taken his first wife. Raisuli. a friend of the (.hit train through their dual claim of descent bom 3fohammed> prevailed upon the old man to send the lad' girl wife into Tangier with ransom money, goats and '•tjaf loaves t.> secure the boy's release. The old chieftain and a small retinue accompanied the pretty R umtli knew, as did all others who have ever liveil in Tangier, the evil life thai the CaKf led, and ! knew of the treatment thai so comely a girl ■ receive at his hands. The boy was released the daj atter the ransom money \\a< paid: bui his wife was [■Tied into the harem of the CaKf, to be released lati r and seni back to b i young husband. Then the bandit chief stirred the tribesmen to bitter anger against the CaKf, so ...... ■• he appeared to colled taxes the tribe attacked him and Ins tram. Tiny drove the Califs forces bock 1 Tangier. The old man they kept captive. R.t:- directed the torturing. A platform of stones \\ t heated, and the CaKf, first having undergone t degradation "i havine his beard shaved off. and • murder <>i the little Spaniards. Cupidity was the . MM that led At. 1 '.-1 Malach. the Lieu- I i !•. • Go* mi 0 of Tangier, to maki- an effort lo captum Raisuli. The Lieutenant-dov in.' or Calif, was constantly making r.is.-. ..;;.,•;: vxpi di tanas to the hul-tribes, to tmd that Raisuli had been there I it; fore him and mad,,- , ,;i ••;; the tlo» ks and whatever money there was to Ik- found. The old <"aht bears an unsavory reputation himself for •hi ex tortionate tax demands thai he presses upon the peasantry, a.n< i tor the methods be [nit in use t i sectnc ■■'::■ I with these demands. Hi often imprisoned members oi tribes until they ■.-.• ' be ran-. d, Mil some he even put to torture. Kaisuli, therefore, was most unwelcome in the territory. Barca. a Port C ■• pl> in bring stripped of his . - . • .1 garments and clothed in women's anpairl, .vas nade to do a erote> in \.> \...1,...,» M.,,,1 ■ m>l ghastly sham) face, strapped t<> the '•'t->' the iuj*ml and greatly u-.. I Calif .■!' Tangier. i witnessed five months afterward t>.xprttitk»n th.it the >•:!.:.;,.!. blii I I I'uhJ srnt out to revenge the terrible ( Continued on JURY rSj dance on the -yd !'.' >1 stones. A-- r ward with red hot gun ramrods they bui iw «] oat his eyes. Then thry seaird the nuwln and ten dons o| his Kmbs, iwymiigj the m h..;vlossly. l-;::.,! ly they strapped Ibe tot t ared, shriwlfil i n '- tun.- to the I'.u k >>t his horse, and un.K-r the high in. >.>n!:^hi in th ■ early hours . I tli t- in raiv. i* the horse halted before the gates "t Tangier. It .is many min ntrs brton by the light It the •1.1. silver fan trim the soldiers .it the gate cocld recr»gmze in the distort*-*! neix