Facts About Enin Bey.

Te Aroha News, Volume VI, Issue 354, 27 March 1889, Page 6

Facts About Enin Bey.

SoatE Government officials who were formeily engaged in Oonstantinople remember to have seen Emm Bey there. They narrate that he was concerned in a harem plot, or some similar scheme, and lost through it a high position, and was compelled $o seek safety in flight. That Emm is of Jewish origin is regarded as certain, both on physiognomical and other grounds — among them being his intimate acquaintance with Oriental languages. ' A person who was very intimate with him was never able to discover Emm's religion. Protestant or Catholic might take him fot; one of their own church, for he was equally well com ersant with the beliefs and religions obligations ot both. To the 'Moslem he would quote the Koran, to the Jew the Talmud, and he showed" a familiarity with "all their customs and practices. He could never be brought, howevei", to confess his own'religious comictionsv— no ; not e\en by his most intimate fiiend in Africa, Consul Hansal. Emm's linguistic equipment fitted him admirably for his work of exploration. The languages of which he is master are : German, English, French", Spaciish, Italian, Greek (some say, also Polish and Russian), Turkish, Persian, Arabia, and various negro dialects. — 'St. James's Gazette.'