"Dark the night and fears possess us, Of the waves and whirlpoolswild:Of our case what know the lightly Laden on the shores thatdwell?"
173 (return)[ The ruler, like the country, is called Kazembe.]
174 (return)[ Dr. Lacerda died at Lunda 18th October 1798. Burton's translation, The Lands of the Cazembe, etc., appeared in 1873.]
175 (return)[ The Beharistan. 1st Garden.]
176 (return)[ J. A. Grant, born 1827, died 10th February, 1892.]
177 (return)[ The Romance of Isabel Lady Burton, i., 149.]
178 (return)[ He is, of course, simply endorsing the statement of Hippocrates: De Genitura: "Women, if married, are more healthy, if not, less so."
179 (return)[ The anecdotes in this chapter were told me by one of Burton's friends. They are not in his books.]
180 (return)[ This letter was given by Mrs. FitzGerald (Lady Burton's sister) to Mr. Foskett of Camberwell. It is now in the library there, and I have to thank the library committee for the use of it.]
181 (return)[ Life, i., 345.]
182 (return)[ 1861.]
183 (return)[ Vambery's work, The Story of my Struggles, appeared in October 1904.]
184 (return)[ The first edition appeared in 1859. Burton's works contain scores of allusions to it. To the Gold Coast, ii., 164. Arabian Nights (many places), etc., etc.]
185 (return)[ Life of Lord Houghton, ii., 300.]
186 (return)[ Lord Russell was Foreign Secretary from 1859-1865.]
187 (return)[ Wanderings in West Africa, 2 vols., 1863.]
188 (return)[ The genuine black, not the mulatto, as he is careful to point out. Elsewhere he says the negro is always eight years old—his mind never develops. Mission to Gelele, i, 216.]
189 (return)[ Wanderings in West Africa, vol. ii., p. 283.]
190 (return)[ See Mission to Gelele, ii., 126.]
191 (return)[ Although the anecdote appears in his Abeokuta it seems to belong to this visit.]
192 (return)[ Mrs. Maclean, "L.E.L.," went out with her husband, who was Governor of Cape Coast Castle. She was found poisoned 15th October 1838, two days after her arrival. Her last letters are given in The Gentleman's Magazine, February 1839.]
193 (return)[ See Chapter xxii.]
194 (return)[ Lander died at Fernando Po, 16th February 1834.]
195 (return)[ For notes on Fernando Po see Laird and Oldfield's Narrative of an Expedition into the Interior of Africa, etc. (1837), Winwood Reade's Savage Africa, and Rev. Henry Roe's West African Scenes (1874).]
196 (return)[ Told me by the Rev. Henry Roe.]
197 (return)[ Life, and various other works.]
198 (return)[ See Abeokuta and the Cameroons, 2 vols., 1863.]
199 (return)[ Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo, 2 vols., 1876.]
200 (return)[ "Who first bewitched our eyes with Guinea gold." Dryden, Annus Mirabilis, 67.]
201 (return)[ Incorporated subsequently with a Quarterly Journal, The Anthropological Review.]
202 (return)[ See Chapter xxix., 140.]
203 (return)[ Foreword to The Arabian Nights, vol. 1. The Arabian Nights, of course, was made to answer the purpose of this organ.]
204 (return)[ See Wanderings in West Africa, vol. 2, p. 91. footnote.]
205 (return)[ Burton.]
206 (return)[ Afa is the messenger of fetishes and of deceased friends. Thus by the Afa diviner people communicate with the dead.]
207 (return)[ This was Dr. Lancaster's computation.]
208 (return)[ Communicated to me by Mr. W. H. George, son of Staff-Commander C. George, Royal Navy.]
209 (return)[ Rev. Edward Burton, Burton's grandfather, was Rector of Tuam. Bishop Burton, of Killala, was the Rev. Edward Burton's brother.]
210 (return)[ The copy is in the Public Library, High Street, Kensington, where most of Burton's books are preserved.]
211 (return)[ Spanish for "little one."
212 (return)[ The Lusiads, 2 vols., 1878. Says Aubertin, "In this city (Sao Paulo) and in the same room in which I began to read The Lusiads in 1860, the last stanza of the last canto was finished on the night of 24th February 1877."
213 (return)[ Burton dedicated the 1st vol. of his Arabian Nights to Steinhauser.]
214 (return)[ Dom Pedro, deposed 15th November 1889.]
215 (return)[ This anecdote differs considerably from Mrs. Burton's version, Life, i., 438. I give it, however, as told by Burton to his friends.]
216 (return)[ Lusiads, canto 6, stanza 95. Burton subsequently altered and spoilt it. The stanza as given will be found on the opening page of the Brazil book.]
217 (return)[ He describes his experiences in his work The Battlefields of Paraguay.]
218 (return)[ Unpublished. Told me by Mrs. E. J. Burton. Manning was made a cardinal in 1875.]
219 (return)[ Mr. John Payne, however, proves to us that the old Rashi'd, though a lover of the arts, was also a sensual and bloodthirsty tyrant. See Terminal Essay to his Arabian Nights, vol. ix.]
220 (return)[ She thus signed herself after her very last marriage.]
221 (return)[ Mrs. Burton's words.]
222 (return)[ Life i., p. 486.]
223 (return)[ Arabian Nights. Lib. Ed, i., 215.]
224 (return)[ Burton generally writes Bedawi and Bedawin. Bedawin (Bedouin) is the plural form of Bedawi. Pilgrimage to Meccah, vol. ii., p. 80.]
225 (return)[ 1870. Three months after Mrs. Burton's arrival.]
226 (return)[ It contained, among other treasures, a Greek manuscript of the Bible with the Epistle of Barnabas and a portion of the Shepherd of Hermas.]
227 (return)[ 1 Kings, xix., 15; 2 Kings, viii., 15.]
228 (return)[ The Romance of Isabel Lady Burton, ii., 386.]
229 (return)[ 11th July 1870.]
230 (return)[ E. H. Palmer (1840-1882). In 1871 he was appointed Lord Almoner's Professor of Arabic at Cambridge. He was murdered at Wady Sudr, 11th August 1882. See Chapter xxiii.]
231 (return)[ Renan. See, too, Paradise Lost, Bk. 1. Isaiah (xvii., 10) alludes to the portable "Adonis Gardens" which the women used to carry to the bier of the god.]
232 (return)[ The Hamath of Scripture. 2. Sam., viii., 9; Amos, vi., 2.]
233 (return)[ See illustrations in Unexplored Syria, by Burton and Drake.]
234 (return)[ The Land of Midian Revisited, ii., 73.]
235 (return)[ Life of Edward H. Palmer, p. 109.]
236 (return)[ Chica is the feminine of Chico (Spanish).]
237 (return)[ Mrs. Burton's expression.]
238 (return)[ District east of the Sea of Galilee.]
239 (return)[ Job, chapter xxx. "But now they that are younger than I have me in derision... who cut up mallows by the bushes and juniper roots for their meat."
240 (return)[ Greek Geographer. 250 B.C.]
241 (return)[ Burton's words.]
242 (return)[ Published in 1898.]
243 (return)[ Life, i., 572.]
244 (return)[ The Romance of Isabel Lady Burton, ii., 504.]
245 (return)[ The Romance of Isabel Lady Burton, ii., 505.]
246 (return)[ Temple Bar, vol. xcii., p. 339.]
247 (return)[ Near St. Helens, Lancs.]
248 (return)[ Life of Sir Richard Burton, by Lady Burton, i., 591.]
249 (return)[ 2nd November 1871.]
250 (return)[ The fountain was sculptured by Miss Hosmer.]
251 (return)[ 27th February 1871. Celebration of the Prince of Wales's recovery from a six weeks' attack of typhoid fever.]
252 (return)[ Her husband's case.]
253 (return)[ Of course, this was an unnecessary question, for there was no mistaking the great scar on Burton's cheek; and Burton's name was a household word.]
254 (return)[ February 1854. Sir Roger had sailed from Valparaiso to Rio Janeiro. He left Rio in the "Bella," which was lost at sea.]
255 (return)[ Undated.]
256 (return)[ Knowsley is close to Garswood, Lord Gerard's seat.]
257 (return)[ Letter, 4th January 1872.]
258 (return)[ Garswood, Newton-le-Willows, Lancashire.]
259 (return)[ Unpublished letter.]
260 (return)[ The True Life, p. 336.]
261 (return)[ It had just been vacated by the death of Charles Lever, the novelist. Lever had been Consul at Trieste from 1867 to 1872. He died at Trieste, 1st June 1872.]
262 (return)[ Near Salisbury.]
263 (return)[ Burton's A.N. iv. Lib. Ed., iii., 282. Payne's A.N. iii., 10.]
264 (return)[ Told me by Mr. Henry Richard Tedder, librarian at the Athenaeum from 1874.]
265 (return)[ Burton, who was himself always having disputes with cab-drivers and everybody else, probably sympathised with Mrs. Prodgers' crusade.]
266 (return)[ Of 2nd November 1891.]
267 (return)[ Lake Regions of Equatorial Africa (2 vols. 1860). Vol. 33 of the Royal Geographical Society, 1860, and The Nile Basin, 1864.]
268 (return)[ A portion was written by Mrs. Burton.]
269 (return)[ These are words used by children. Unexplored Syria, i., 288. Nah really means sweetstuff.]
270 (return)[ Afterwards Major-General. He died in April 1887. See Chapter ix., 38.]
271 (return)[ Mrs. Burton and Khamoor followed on Nov. 18th.]
272 (return)[ Burton's works contain many citations from Ovid. Thus there are two in Etruscan Bologna, pp. 55 and 69, one being from the Ars Amandi and the other from The Fasti.]
273 (return)[ Stendhal, born 1783. Consul at Trieste and Civita Vecchia from 1830 to 1839. Died in Paris, 23rd March 1842. Burton refers to him in a footnote to his Terminal Essay in the Nights on "Al Islam."
274 (return)[ These are all preserved now at the Central Library, Camberwell.]
275 (return)[ Now in the possession of Mrs. St. George Burton.]
276 (return)[ In later times Dr. Baker never saw more than three tables.]
277 (return)[ Mrs. Burton, was, of course, no worse than many other society women of her day. Her books bristle with slang.]
278 (return)[ It is now in the possession of Mrs. E. J. Burton, 31, Whilbury Road, Brighton.]
279 (return)[ Later Burton was himself a sad sinner in this respect. His studies made him forget his meals.]
280 (return)[ His usual pronunciation of the word.]
281 (return)[ 12th August 1874.]
282 (return)[ Letter to Lord Houghton.]
283 (return)[ Dr. Grenfell Baker, afterwards Burton's medical attendant.]
284 (return)[ Hell.]
285 (return)[ A.E.I. (Arabia, Egypt, Indian).]
286 (return)[ Burton's A. N., v., 304. Lib. Ed., vol. 4., p. 251.]
287 (return)[ About driving four horses.]
288 (return)[ I do not know to what this alludes.]
289 (return)[ See Chapter i.]
290 (return)[ Its population is now 80,000.]
291 (return)[ Sind Revisited, i., 82.]
292 (return)[ See Sind Revisited, vol. ii., pp. 109 to 149.]
293 (return)[ Where Napier with 2,800 men defeated 22,000.]
294 (return)[ Romance of Isabel Lady Burton, ii., 584.]
295 (return)[ Dr. Da Cunha, who was educated at Panjim, spent several years in England, and qualified at the Colleges of Physicians and Surgeons. He built up a large practice in Goa.]
296 (return)[ There are many English translations, from Harrington's, 1607, to Hoole's, 1783, and Rose's, 1823. The last is the best.]
297 (return)[ Sir Henry Stisted died of consumption in 1876.]
298 (return)[ Robert Bagshaw, he married Burton's aunt, Georgiana Baker.]
299 (return)[ His cousin Sarah, who married Col. T. Pryce Harrison. See Chapter iv. and Chapter xix.]
300 (return)[ Burton's brother.]
301 (return)[ Romance of Isabel Lady Burton, ii., 656.]
302 (return)[ Romance of Isabel Lady Burton.]
303 (return)[ Burton's A.N., Suppl., ii., 61. Lib. Ed. ix., p. 286, note.]
304 (return)[ Thus, Balzac, tried to discover perpetual motion, proposed to grow pineapples which were to yield enormous profits, and to make opium the staple of Corsica, and he studied mathematical calculations in order to break the banks at Baden-Baden.]
305 (return)[ We are telling the tale much as Mrs. Burton told it, but we warn the reader that it was one of Mrs. Burton's characteristics to be particularly hard on her own sex and also that she was given to embroidering.]
306 (return)[ Preface to Midian Revisited, xxxiv.]
307 (return)[ Ex Ponto III., i., 19.]
308 (return)[ The Gold Mines of Midian and the Ruined Midianite Cities (C. Kegan Paul and Co.) It appeared in 1878.]
309 (return)[ The Land of Midian Revisited, ii., 254.]
310 (return)[ Kindly copied for me by Miss Gordon, his daughter.]
311 (return)[ They left on July 6th (1878) and touched at Venice, Brindisi, Palermo and Gibraltar.]
312 (return)[ November 1876.]
313 (return)[ From the then unpublished Kasidah.]
314 (return)[ The famous Yogis. Their blood is dried up by the scorching sun of India, they pass their time in mediation, prayer and religious abstinence, until their body is wasted, and they fancy themselves favoured with divine revelations.]
315 (return)[ The Spiritualist. 13th December 1878.]
316 (return)[ In short, she had considerable natural gifts, which were never properly cultivated.]
317 (return)[ See Chapter xxxviii.]
318 (return)[ Arabia, Egypt, India.]
319 (return)[ Letter to Miss Stisted.]
320 (return)[ She says, I left my Indian Christmas Book with Mr. Bogue on 7th July 1882, and never saw it after.]
321 (return)[ Burton dedicated to Yacoub Pasha Vol. x. of his Arabian Nights. They had then been friends for 12 years.]
322 (return)[ Inferno, xix.]
323 (return)[ Canto x., stanza 153.]
324 (return)[ Canto x., stanzas 108-118.]
325 (return)[ Between the Indus and the Ganges.]
326 (return)[ A Glance at the Passion Play, 1881.]
327 (return)[ The Passion Play at Ober Ammergau, 1900.]
328 (return)[ A Fireside King, 3 vol., Tinsley 1880. Brit. Mus. 12640 i. 7.]
329 (return)[ See Chapter xx., 96. Maria Stisted died 12th November 1878.]
330 (return)[ See Chapter xli.]
331 (return)[ Only an admirer of Omar Khayyam could have written The Kasidah, observes Mr. Justin McCarthy, junior; but the only Omar Khayyam that Burton knew previous to 1859, was Edward FitzGerald. I am positive that Burton never read Omar Khayyam before 1859, and I doubt whether he ever read the original at all.]
332 (return)[ For example:— "That eve so gay, so bright, so glad, this morn so dim and sad and grey; Strange that life's Register should write this day a day, that day a day."
Amusingly enough, he himself quotes this as from Hafiz in a letter to Sir Walter Besant. See Literary Remains of Tyrwhitt Drake, p. 16. See also Chapter ix.]
333 (return)[ We use the word by courtesy.]
334 (return)[ See Life, ii., 467, and end of 1st volume of Supplemental Nights. Burton makes no secret of this. There is no suggestion that they are founded upon the original of Omar Khayyam. Indeed, it is probable that Burton had never, before the publication of The Kasidah, even heard of the original, for he imagined like J. A. Symonds and others, that FitzGerald's version was a fairly literal translation. When, therefore, he speaks of Omar Khayyam he means Edward FitzGerald. I have dealt with this subject exhaustively in my Life of Edward FitzGerald.]
335 (return)[ Couplet 186.]
336 (return)[ Preserved in the Museum at Camberwell. It is inserted in a copy of Camoens.]
337 (return)[ Italy having sided with Prussia in the war of 1866 received as her reward the long coveted territory of Venice.]
338 (return)[ Born 1844. Appointed to the command of an East Coast expedition to relieve Livingstone, 1872. Crossed Africa 1875.]
339 (return)[ "Burton as I knew him," by V. L. Cameron.]
340 (return)[ Nearly all his friends noticed this feature in his character and have remarked it to me.]
341 (return)[ The number is dated 5th November 1881. Mr. Payne had published specimens of his proposed Translation, anonymously, in the New Quarterly Review for January and April, 1879.]
342 (return)[ This was a mistake. Burton thought he had texts of the whole, but, as we shall presently show, there were several texts which up to this time he had not seen. His attention, as his letters indicate, was first drawn to them by Mr. Payne.]
343 (return)[ In the light of what follows, this remark is amusing.]
344 (return)[ See Chapter xxiii, 107.]
345 (return)[ In the Masque of Shadows.]
346 (return)[ New Poems, p. 19.]
347 (return)[ The Masque of Shadows, p. 59.]
348 (return)[ Published 1878.]
349 (return)[ New Poems, p. 179.]
350 (return)[ Published 1871.]
351 (return)[ Mr. Watts-Dunton, the Earl of Crewe, and Dr. Richard Garnett have also written enthusiastically of Mr. Payne's poetry.]
352 (return)[ Of "The John Payne Society" (founded in 1905) and its publications particulars can be obtained from The Secretary, Cowper School, Olney. It has no connection with the "Villon Society," which publishes Mr. Payne's works.]
353 (return)[ See Chapter xi., 43.]
354 (return)[ Dr. Badger died 19th February, 1888, aged 73.]
355 (return)[ To Payne. 20th August 1883.]
356 (return)[ No doubt the "two or three pages" which he showed to Mr. Watts-Dunton.]
357 (return)[ This is a very important fact. It is almost incredible, and yet it is certainly true.]
358 (return)[ Prospectuses.]
359 (return)[ Its baths were good for gout and rheumatism. Mrs. Burton returned to Trieste on September 11th.]
360 (return)[ This is, of course, a jest. He repeats the jest, with variation, in subsequent letters.]
361 (return)[ The author wishes to say that the names of several persons are hidden by the dashes in these chapters, and he has taken every care to render it impossible for the public to know who in any particular instance is intended.]
362 (return)[ Of course, in his heart, Burton respected Lane as a scholar.]
363 (return)[ Apparently Galland's.]
364 (return)[ Mr. Payne's system is fully explained in the Introductory Note to Vol. i. and is consistently followed through the 13 volumes (Arabian Nights, 9 vols.; Tales from the Arabic, 3 vols.; Alaeddin and Zein-ul-Asnam, i vol.).]
365 (return)[ One of the poets of The Arabian Nights.]
366 (return)[ See Chapter iii. 11.]
367 (return)[ He published some of this information in his Terminal Essay.]
368 (return)[ Perhaps we ought again to state most emphatically that Burton's outlook was strictly that of the student. He was angry because he had, as he believed, certain great truths to tell concerning the geographical limits of certain vices, and an endeavour was being made to prevent him from publishing them.]
369 (return)[ Burton's A. N. vi., 180; Lib. Ed. v., 91, The Three Wishes, or the Man who longed to see the Night of Power.]
370 (return)[ The Lady and her Five Suitors, Burton's A. N., vi., 172; Lib. Ed., v., 83; Payne's A. N., v., 306. Of course Mr. Payne declined to do this.]
371 (return)[ Possibly this was merely pantomime. Besant, in his Life of Palmer, p. 322, assumes that Matr Nassar, or Meter, as he calls him, was a traitor.]
372 (return)[ Cloak.]
373 (return)[ Cursing is with Orientals a powerful weapon of defence. Palmer was driven to it as his last resource. If he could not deter his enemies in this way he could do no more.]
374 (return)[ Burton's Report and Besant's Life of Palmer, p. 328.]
375 (return)[ See Chapter vi., 22.]
376 (return)[ Palmer translated only a few songs in Hafiz. Two will be found in that well-known Bibelot, Persian Love Songs.]
377 (return)[ There were two editions of Mr. Payne's Villon. Burton is referring to the first.]
378 (return)[ Augmentative of palazzo, a gentleman's house.]
379 (return)[ We have altered this anecdote a little so as to prevent the possibility of the blanks being filled up.]
380 (return)[ That which is knowable.]
381 (return)[ Let it be remembered that the edition was (to quote the title-page) printed by private subscription and for private circulation only and was limited to 500 copies at a high price. Consequently the work was never in the hands of the general public.]
382 (return)[ This was a favourite saying of Burton's. We shall run against it elsewhere. See Chapter xxxiv., 159. Curiously enough, there is a similar remark in Mr. Payne's Study of Rabelais written eighteen years previous, and still unpublished.]
383 (return)[ Practically there was only the wearisome, garbled, incomplete and incorrect translation by Dr. Weil.]
384 (return)[ The Love of Jubayr and the Lady Budur, Burton's A. N. iv., 234; Lib. Ed., iii., 350; Payne's A. N., iv., 82.]
385 (return)[ Three vols., 1884.]
386 (return)[ The public were to some extent justified in their attitude. They feared that these books would find their way into the hands of others than bona fide students. Their fears, however, had no foundation. In all the libraries visited by me extreme care was taken that none but the genuine student should see these books; and, of course, they are not purchasable anywhere except at prices which none but a student, obliged to have them, would dream of giving.]
387 (return)[ He married in 1879, Ellinor, widow of James Alexander Guthrie, Esp., of Craigie, Forfarshire, and daughter of Admiral Sir James Stirling.]
388 (return)[ Early Ideas by an Aryan, 1881. Alluded to by Burton in A. N., Lib. Ed., ix., 209, note.]