IN A MOORISH HAREM.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LXII, Issue 144328, 17 February 1914, Page 3

IN A MOORISH HAREM.

EXPERIENCE OF FRENCH . WOMAN. by electric telegraph—copyright, PARIS, Fob. 16. A Frenchwoman who was captured by tho Moors in May last was assigned as a captive to tho harem of a fierce brigand. She gave birth to a baby two months after hor capture. Tho other women of tho harem threatened to gouge the eyes out of the captive and hor child. The two first chiefs with whom tho woman had boon associated were killed, and she was accused of having “the evil eye.” Finally the chief, out of pity, returned her to tho Spaniards.