KAID MACLEAN.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2212, 16 October 1907, Page 4

KAID MACLEAN.

A MAN OF THE DAY. Kaid Sir Hurry Maclean who has had such an adventurous •exporionoo with Raisuli, the Moroccan brigand chief, is a remarkable example of a soldier who hoard tho East calling and answered. Tho scion of an ancient lino of Highland chieftains, Sir Harry had soldiering in his blood, and naturally entered tho Army, serving for somo time in tho old GOtli Foot. On© iiuo dav, some thirty years ago, Lioutonant Maclean, as ho was then, sailed across from Gibraltar, where Ins regiment was stationed, to Tangier. Hero he made the acquaintance of tho lato Sultan Mulai el Hasan, and was induced to accept tho post of instructor to tho Moroccan Army, and from that day to this ho has nevor looked back. Ho gained tho full confidence of the Sultan and of tho army, and soon found himself Cominander-in-Chiof of the collection of barbaric soldiers who form tho Moroccan Army. To-day ho he has a palace nor Fez, containing within its walls, the splendors of the East combined with tho luxuries of Europe. Ho has a priucoly salary, and is now perhaps the most powerful personality in tho perturbed dominions of the Sult.Ui.

Tho Ivaid has seen service in c: 111paigns among the fierce tribes of Central Morocco. It was : n ono of these campaigns, that against the zevolting hordes in the Atlas Mountains, that the late Sultan Mulai si Hasan died, worn out with hardships and anxiety. The situation was a dlficult rno. Had tho news of the Sultan’s death become 'known while the army was away from the capital, the kingdom would have been torn by tho disc, i tions of rival claimants. Maclrm was equal to the occasion. .’>y his orders tho body of his master was ean-od along in tho gilded litter as if rotliing had happened, the slue\S and khalifas paying homage alt unknown to the ghastly figure propped vp in corneous cushions. In this wny li?o dangerous secret was kept till Rabat was reached, and tho son peacoUdly proclaimed in place of li;s fat ier.