AN EMPEROR IN TROUBLE.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XII, Issue 76, 29 March 1877, Page 4

AN EMPEROR IN TROUBLE.

The Emperor of Brazil, who is at present travelling in Egypt, met with a disagreeable adventure the other day iv Cairo, according to tbe Europe Diplomatique. His Majesty, it appears, is very fond of donkey riding, add one morning haviDg descended into the street in a jacket and small cap, with a light switch under his arm, mounted one of these intelligent little animals, and trotted off on an expedition through a labyrinth of back streets, better known to the donkey than to its rider. On returning from his ride, not wishing to alight from the donkey in front of his hotel, he pulled it up a few hundred yards, from the building, and not having any "small change" in his pocket gave tbe donkey driver a guinea instead of a piastre. The donkey-driver, however, had never before seen a coin of tbis nature, and: looking first at the guinea and then at tbe Emperor, came to the conclusion that the guinea was merely a worthless counter, and that an attempt was being made to "chisel" him. The row he made was terrific; rushing after tte Emperor, who bad walked off at a rapid pace towards the hotel where his suite were anxiously awaiting bim, the donkey-driver assailed his Imperial Mbjesty with all tba most horrible oaths in tho Arab vocabulary. Tbe Emperor, who does not understand a single word of Arabic, but saw that the. man was laboring under a misapprehension, endeavored iv vain to explain to him that tbe coin was gold and not copper. Ia tbe .meantime other donkeydrivers hurried to the spot, and taking tbe part oi their mate, followed tbe Emperor with a storm of imprecations. Thus surrounded by" a mob of donkeys and their drivers, the hapless Docn Pedro at last reached his hotel, where the whole affair was explained, and the doukey-driver-?, discovering tbe true state ot tbe case, miraculously disappeared in the twinkling of au eye.