In Senegal, a small lake in Chatra, lived a young man named Ziguinchar.He was from a nice Wolof tribe and engaged in farming and hunting.One day he was captured in the jungle Moors led to the ocean and thrown into the galley to other slaves, the soldiers were sent here by King Ioruby and Dahomey.White host shoved his hands and ordered the paddle to paddle.
When a galley slaves departed from one of the piers of Senegal, Ziguinchar stared at all leaves his native shore.First, disappeared in the foggy haze hut, jetty and palm trees, and then the mast standing in the outer roads of frigates, brigs, caravels and aisles.Finally himself ashore disappeared over the horizon.
To at least one day to return home, we must know the path that should go.There, at Senegal, among the most impenetrable jungle, Ziguinchar easily find subtle paths and after hunting always came back to his hut.And here, in the vast ocean, he painfully in the eyes peered into the trace left gallery, emerald narrow groove remaining astern.But she instantly covered a large wave and the foam appears from nowhere.
Ziguincharu suddenly wanted to shout, to bang your head on the side of the boat and cry.But no tears came, and only one tear rolled down his cheek and fell into the water.It is, of course, could easily dissolve into the infinite ocean, but a tear was saltier and heavier than seawater.Lit by the rays of the sun burns, sparkling with all the colors of the rainbow, she slowly began to sink to the bottom.
The fact that it happened then, told flounder sea turtle.It floats on the ocean surface and dive to the bottom.She saw and heard everything, this old big turtle named Kolibanta.
inhabitants of the ocean immediately noticed lowers tear.
- Look, look, - said the first black-and-blue-wing Media, - we swim some zvezdochka.- It was a noble inookeankoy, the Media, swim to the coast of Africa from some North Sea, attach to the bottom of the recently sunkenhere frigate.
Midia important hung in his shell on silk threads spun off its adhesive byssus and swayed under the pile, like on a swing.She could see everything better than the others.
- That's not true, that's true! -zakrichala Oyster, flicking his wings domika.- Not at all is not an asterisk, and hrustalinka.She broke off from friends, attached to the rock above the water, and now falls to the bottom.
- Oh, how interesting!- Chorused crustaceans acorns, spreading fan tails.
- interesting - it is important to Omar said the big, claws scratching his broad nose.
- I also see: any diamond beetle down to us on the ocean floor - someone boomed from under the spotted shells.It was a Hermit crab.He had a very funny form his whole back to the tail, a shiny shell closed, and stuck to her mustache and bulging eyes.Beneath the sink could be seen two claws and eight thin legs.Without his house, Cancer hermit living in the empty shell of the gastropod mollusks that eat octopus Octopus.Parted folds of his house, quiet pearl watched, listened and said nothing.She was the most modest among the bustling world of the underwater kingdom.Teardrop finally fell through the open sash pearl like money in the wallet.
- Sorry for the indelicate question - exquisitely polite, as befits clams, dressed in a gown, pearl asked - what prompted your lordship sink to the bottom of our oceans?
- I do not Grace.I just Teardrop.The most common tear that dropped a Negro named Ziguinchar, Wolof tribe.He always said: "If you meet on your way Moor and the cobra - kill the Moor."Moors and revenge.They grabbed Ziguinchara and sold him into slavery ... I beg you, kind of pearl, hide me so that no one has ever found.I am no longer able to see human grief.It is very, very scary.Up there, one killed the other, the strong weak crammed into prisons and sell them into slavery.
- What's a prison and slavery? - Interested mollusk, moving her long eyelashes.
- I find it hard to talk about it right now.Then I'll tell you everything, but for now please save me.
- Well, - said the Clam - hide under my mantle and I from day to day, from year to year will envelop you a real pearl.Seven years later you will become a big and beautiful pearl.If you tear the white man, you will be white, pink or blue pearl, yellow - and the pearl will be yellow, and if the black - you'll be the most beautiful in the world of black pearl!Here
pearl noticed that their conversation with tear overhears Kolibanta turtle, and slammed his wing pearl shell.But seven years later, as promised shellfish Teardrop turned into a big black pearl, sparkling with all the colors of the rainbow.But the people found out about it only when it was taken out of the shell and inserted to the open rim of the pendant, studded with precious stones ...
How do famous people and some historically known gems and pearls were their unique destiny - its upsand fall.Our beauty named its first owner Marquise de Lanthanum "Black Rose", like the famous diamond "Sancy" and "Pitt-Regent," I wandered through the world from country to country, from a nobleman to another until finally he got inEnglish crown, where honor and glory remained for many years.But at the beginning of the reign of George V, she disappeared from the royal palace under very mysterious obsyuyatelstvah.Search for missing gems associated with many arrests, to no avail.And perhaps we would never have known about the fate of the Black Pearl, if not strange case, which in 1879 started talking vying Vienna, London and Paris newspaper.
In Austria, in the small town of Stockerau located near Vienna, there was a man named Isaac Roth.Stockerau was neither industrial nor commercial center and led a quiet provincial life.On the main street housed a number of shops and little shops, and in the park and on the boulevard - beer and cafes.There was not a bank, nor even the pawnshop.Being a man of a commercial, Isaac Roth took into account the allowed space, and, with the permission of the authorities, opened a loan office.
Now every resident of Stockerau, being in a difficult situation, could not get the necessary amount of bail to the payment of bank interest Vienna.Life in the town proceeded sedately, measured.Clients in the loan office was a little: Stockerau burghers tried to fit within their modest income from kitchen gardens and orchards.Only occasionally it happened that someone from the inhabitants took a loan for a daughter's wedding or funeral of someone from relatives.Once in a modest office moneylender, located at the end of the boulevard, I came to his neighbor, Adam Gunther, once served as a lackey Count Batian.He asked a strange object - a big black pearl - twenty guilders for payment of the tax.Not knowing the price of the proposed items, Roth long considered a gem, like a cock who found a pearl grain.After much hesitation, he nevertheless took pity on his neighbor and gave him a sum of the requests made.As for Vienna, the moneylender went into one of the best jewelry stores, and putting a pearl PA counter and asked the jeweler to determine its value.The owner of the shop took a magnifying glass and began to examine very closely the marine beauty.Then he looked at modestly dressed loan shark and he could not utter a word.Finally, I said:
- You do not know anything about the black pearl missing from the English crown?
- No ... But why are you asking me?Do I look like a thief in the royal jewels?
- Not really.However, what happens in my life.
- So, can you answer my question?
- This pearl weighs around fifty carats.Judging by the color of her game and she brought from Africa or India.The cost of it is huge!
- Maybe you buy it from me?
- No, I can not do that.
- Why?
- Everything I have is in the shop window.You do not agree to exchange your unique gem on the heels of a gold cigarette case and a dozen pocket watches, however, good firms: Heinrich Moser, Pavel Bure and Longines.The only thing I can advise you is to go to the office of the court jeweler and talk to him on your issue.If the deal goes through, you to me as a broker, pay five percent.
Roth thought and went to the address.But the conversation did not take place.The court jeweler looking at a pearl, immediately called the police and was arrested moneylender.A week later, according to the newspaper, "... he was arrested and a second accomplice steal sferovidnogo black pearl, stolen from the English crown and the estimated customs experts, with the participation of French jewelers hundred thousand francs."During the interrogation, Adam Gunther said under oath that the black pearl was presented to him by the late Count Batiani the day of his death.Gunter was the favorite lackey graph.The trial stopped, and "Black Rose" arrived in lawful possession of the kings of England.
said that now it sparkles in the crown of Queen Elizabeth.And when someone from the court, great-grandchildren slave, bowing to the Queen, then bows his head before the teardrop Ziguinchara.
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