Pana 716 Dauphine Street, kona yeOreleans Avenue muFrance Corner , inomira imba ine nhurikidzwa ina yakawanda kwazvo, kunyange neNew Orleans. Iye ndiye "Sultan." Imba yacho yakatanga kuvakwa muna 1836 naJean Baptiste LaPrete, uyo aiva nemunda muPalquemines Parish. Zvakanga zvisingawanzozivikanwi kuti varimi vemiriwo vave nemisha muguta racho kuti vashandise mumwedzi inotonhorera yegore.
Pane imwe nguva mushure mokunge Union yakatanga kupinda muNew Orleans muHondo Yenyika, LaPrete akaona kushaya mari uye akamanikidzwa kubvarura guta rake.
Muchengeti wacho akazova murume, Prince Suleyman, ainzi Turk uyo aiti ndiye sultan, kana kuti aimbova sultan, emunyika yekumabvazuva. Sultan yakanga ine vakadzi vazhinji uye nhengo dzemhuri, kunze kwekudzoka kwevaranda / vashumiri. Imba yacho yakagadziridzwa, uye ine mirefu yakaoma pakarepo yakavhara mahwindo ose. Padlocked pamberi pemikova yakanga yakachengetedzwa neveTurkey mahedheni aireva zvidzidzo. Nhuhwirira inorema yezvinonhuwira yakanyongedzwa nevaya vaifamba-ne, pose apo musuo wakavhurwa.
Mashoko Okutanga Anotanga
Izvo zvakashumwa kuti vaSultan vaigara havasi vevakadzi vazhinji chete asiwo vevakomana vaduku. Nhau dzemitambo dzaive dzakawanda, sezvakaitwa nhoroondo dzekubatwa kwevakadzi, vasikana nevakomana, zvose zvichida nekuda kwekufara kwaSultan. Zvingava zvakaoma kutaura kuti izvi zvakange zvakadini kufungidzira, uye kuti zvakadini chaizvoizvo, hazvina kuitika nokuda kwekutsvaga kunotyisa kwakaitwa mangwanani mamwe nemuvakidzani.
Achipfuura nemangwanani mamwe, muvakidzani akaona kuti imba yacho yakanyarara zvakanyanyisa, uye ipapo yakaona ropa richidonhera kubva pane zvinyorwa kumusoro, uye richibuda kunze kwemukova.
The Scene
Mapurisa akawana kusingafungidziki kunotyisa ikoko. Nhengo dzomuviri dzaive dzakasvibiswa pasi pose, iyo yakanga yakazara neropa mukati. Vakadzi, vana, uye varindi vakaurayiwa uye vakagurwa musoro.
Ikoko kwakanga kune muviri mumwe chete usina kumbove wakatemwa - weSultan. Akange akavigwa ari mupenyu, neruoko rumwe rwunosvika mumvura, sezvinonzi kujekesa nzira yake yekubuda nayo. Akavigwa muzvigaro zvemuMuslim kumariro. Kuzivikanwa kwemuurayi kunoramba kusingazivikanwi.
Sei?
Panguva iyoyo, mapurisa akasarudza kuti vashandi vaiva munzvimbo yacho ndivo vaitungamirira kuurayiwa, asi chiitiko ichi chakanga chisingaoneki chakafananidza tsanangudzo yakadaro. Yakazowanikwa gare gare kuti Prince Suleyman akanga asiri sultan zvachose, asi pane imwe hama yeimwe. Zvaifungidzirwa kuti Suleyman angadai akaurayiwa munyika yake, uye saka akanga achivanda pano. Yakanga ichitendwawo kuti Suleyman akanga abiba pfuma kubva kuhama yake.
Pakanga pane zvinangwa zvakakwana zvokugumisa kuti vaSultan vaitsvaga vakazotevera Suleyman pasi, ndokumuuraya pamwe chete nevamwe vose veimba.
The Ghosts
Vagari vomuimba vakaona vachiona Sultan pachake, kana mamwe mifananidzo mumasuo ekumavirira. Kushevedzera uye kupopota kwakashumwa zvakare, kana kutinhira kwezvikamu zvemuviri kurova pasi usiku. Rwiyo runoshamisa rwekunamatira uye kunhuhwirira kwezvinonhuwira zvakataurwa nevaya vanopfuura-ne. Murume akanaka ane bvudzi akaonekwa agere pahwindo, asi iye achaerekana abuda.
Zvichida kana kwete uyu wechiduku "sultan," hatizombotomboziva zvaanotsvaka. Asi mishumo yehutano ikoko inopfuurira.