The romance of Isabel Lady Burton

INDEX

Abd el Kadir, 386, 396, 507
Acre, St. Jean d’, 489
Adelsberg Caves, the, 546
Aden, 74, 570
Alderley, Dowager Lady Stanley of, 747
Alexandria, 365, 621
Alford, Lady Marian, 529
Algiers, 694
Almack’s, fancy ball at, 26
Anthropological Society, dinner to Burton, 230
Anti-Lebanon, 371
Antioch, the Patriarch, Primate of, 432
Arneh, Druze wedding at, 453
Arundell, Blanche, 63, 88, 96, 556
—— Blanche Lady, 6, 439
—— Mr., death of, 684
—— Mrs., her opposition to Lady Burton’s marriage, 151;
her death, 530
Arundells of Wardour, family history, 1–10
Austria, Emperor and Empress of, 545;
the Court of, 545
Auvergne, Princess de la Tour d’, 361
Ayde, Sir John, 681

Ba’albak, 430
Bahia, 342
Balme, Col de, 127
Barbacena, 281
—— Vicomte and Vicomtesse, 259
Beaconsfield, Lord, 614, 621, 623
Beatson, General, 79
Beaumont, Lady Margaret, 760
Beg, Omar, 412
Beyrout, 367
Bird, Dr., 155, 166
—— Miss Alice, 166, 689
Bishop, Miss, 683, 695, 751, 755
Blanc, Mont, 124
Bludán, 427 et seq.;
news of the recall, 499
Bologna, 639
Bombay, 73;
journey to, 554, 572;
the Towers of Silence, 586;
the Hindû Smáshán, 588
—— Government remove Burton’s name from Army List, 175
Boulogne, life at, 40 et seq., 555;
last visit to, 691
Brazil, 244 et seq.
—— Emperor and Empress of, 259
British Association meeting at Bath, 1864, 228
Bull-fight at Lisbon, a, 233
Bülow, Madame von, 552
Burton, Captain St. George, 747
Byculla, races at, 576

Cameron, Captain Verney Lovett, 631, 635
Candahar, 624
Carnival at Venice, 114
Carthage, 694
Cazalem, 597, 599
Cenis, Mont, ascent of, 117
Chambord, Comte de (Henri V.), 113, 115, 610
Chamounix, 124
Chavannes, Comtesse de, 115
Cheron, Chevalier de St., 113
Chillon, 130
Citta Vecchia, 535
Clarendon, Lord, 352, 513, 623
Clifford, Isabel, 14
Constable, Sir Clifford and Lady, 157
Copsey, Mr. Charles, 284
Crawford, Rev. John, 522
Cruz, Santa, 198

Dahomé, King of, 226
Damascus, 372, 375
Dead Sea, 483
Derby, Lord, 230, 508, 623, 693;
and Lady, 746
Digby, Hon. Jane, El Mezráb, 393
—— Lord, 393, 395
Dublin, 229
Dudley, Georgina Lady, 545

Eastbourne, 768
Eldridge, Consul-General, 520
Ellenborough, Lady, 389, 393, 459, 507
Elliot, Sir Henry, 493, 522;
letter to Lady Burton, 516
Elphinstone Point, 593
Entre Rios, 275
Eu, Comte and Comtesse d’, 258
Extreme Unction, Sacrament of, administered to Sir Richard Burton, 702, 706

Fernando Po, 175
Fisherwomen of Boulogne, the, 44
Fitzgerald, Mrs., 15, 634, 746, 750, 753, 767, 769
Fiume, 546
Florence, 110, 544
Frankel, Rev. E. B., 522
Funchal, 189
Furze Hall, 17

Geneva, 120
Genoa, 102
Gerard, Elizabeth, 14
—— Lord, 8, 183, 355, 689
—— Monica Lady, 173
Germany, the Empress Frederick of, 545
Ghazis, the, 410
Ghazzeh, 636, 638
Gibraltar, 681
Giram, Cape, 193
Gladstone, Mr. W. E., 551
Goa, 594 et seq., 713
Gobat, Bishop, 481
Golconda, 585
Gordon, General, 644, 645;
letters from, 646 et seq.;
his death at Kartoum, 644, 675
Gordon, Mr. and Mrs., 294
Gorizia, 610
Grant, Colonel, 740
Granville, Lord, 456, 465, 508, 516, 531, 532, 621;
his reasons for Burton’s recall, 520, 528
Grindlay’s fire, 178
Gutmansthal-Benvenuti, Mme. de, 696, 742, 755, 769
Gypsy forecast, a, 21

Hammerton, Colonel, 714
Harar in Somaliland, 73
Havre, 136
Hawthorne, General, 338
Hay, Sir J. D., 680
Henri V. (Comte de Chambord), 113, 115, 610
Honfleur, 137
Houghton, Lord, 177, 355, 551
Howard, Cardinal, 543
Hunt, Mr. Holman, 481
Hyderabad, 580;
the Nizam of, 580 et seq.

Iceland, 529, 552
Ideal lover, the, 37
Ireland, a trip to, 229
Ismail, Khedive, and the Mines of Midian, 610 et seq., 621
Italy, Queen of, 558

Jaffa, 367, 470
James, Miss, 522
Jayrúd, 407
Jeddah, 563
Jerusalem, 471
Joly, Mrs. Francis, 767
Jowett, Professor, 551
Juiz de Fóra, 277
Jung, Sir Salar, 580

Karachi, 730
Karla Caves, 578
Karyatayn, 412
Kazeh, 143
Kebir, Amir el, 583
Kennedy, Mr., 466

Lagôa Dourada, 285
Laguna, 200
Lanauli, 578
Lausanne, 131
Layard, Sir Henry, 182
Lebanon, 370
—— Cedars of, 432
Lee, Dr., 284
Leghorn, 110
Leighton, Sir Frederick, 354, 376;
his picture of Sir Richard Burton, 551
Lentaigne, the convict philanthropist, 229
Leslie, Dr. Ralph, 688, 690
Lever, Charles, 530, 532, 580
Levis, Duc de, 115
Lido, the, 114
Lipizza, the Emperor of Austria’s stud farm at, 546
Lisbon, 231
Llandaff, Lord (Mr. Henry Matthews), 548
Lytton, Lord and Lady, 233, 624

Machico, 192
Madeira, 190
Máhábáleshwar, 591, 593, 594
Malta, 694
Marianna, 302
Marienbad, 631, 635
Martelani, Pietro, 709
Mátherán, 577
Mattei, Count, 639
Meade, Sir Richard, 585
Mecca, 69, 565, 713
Midian, the Mines of, 610, 621
Mijwal, Shaykh, 394
Milan, 558
Milnes, Monckton (Lord Houghton), 81, 179
Mitford, Mr., 468
Monson, Sir Edmund, 699
Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley, 361
Montanvert, 125
Montreux, 692
Mormons, Burton’s book on the, 180
Morocco, 643, 680, 682, 685
Motto Velho, 295 et seq.
Mortlake, Lady Burton’s cottage at, 752
—— Cemetery, 228;
burial of Sir Richard Burton, 746, 747;
burial of Lady Burton, 770
Mukhtára, 449
Murchison, Sir Roderick, 355

Napier, Sir Charles, 730
Napoleon, Louis, 396
—— some relics of, 181
Nazareth, 486;
the riot at, 487
Nevill, Major and Mrs., 580
New Hall (Convent), 17, 748
Nice, 100
Novikoff, Madame Olga, 631

Oberammergau, the Passion Play at, 623, 627
Opçina, 542;
ball at, 627
Orotava, 201
Ouchy, 131
“Ouida,” 537, 544
Ouro Branco, 328
—— Preto, 305

Paget, Sir Augustus and Lady, 543, 639
Palmer, Mr. E. H., 430
—— Professor, 636
Palmerston, Lord, 177
Palmyra, 403 et seq.
Paris, 97;
after the Franco-German War, 556;
Lady Burton’s fall downstairs, 616
Pasarni Ghát, 592
Perrochel, Vicomte de, 414, 421
Perry, Sir William, 533
Persigny, Duchesse de, 383
Petropolis, 258, 273, 339
Pico Arriere, 193
Pigott, Mrs. Smyth, 96, 751
Pisa, 109
Poissardes, Carolina, “Queen” of the, 44, 58, 556
Poonah, 579, 592
Port Said, 561
Portugal, a trip to, 230
Procopio, Com. Mariano, 277
Prout, Colonel, 659

Queen, the, makes Burton K.C.M.G., 682;
grants pension to Lady Burton, 747

Ralli, Baroness Paul de, 706, 709
Ramsden, Lady Guendolen, 758
Reclus, Elisée, 692
Richards, Mr. Alfred Bates, 605
Rio de Janeiro, 244
Riviera, the earthquake in the, 1887, 687
Rome, 544
Rosebery, Lord, 685, 687
Royal Geographical Society and Speke, 144
Russell, Lady John, 177
—— Lord John, 175, 227

Sabará, 315
Safed, 491
Salahíyyeh, 376, 454
Salisbury, Lord and Lady, 614, 623, 682, 685, 687;
letters from Lady Salisbury, 618, 622, 693
Santos, 230, 248
São João, 283
—— Paulo, 248
Scented Garden, The, 696, 698;
truth about, 719 et seq.;
burning of, 726
Schwartzenburg, Prince, 393
Scott, Rev. J. Orr, 522
Seão, Senhor Nicolão, 334
Shazlis, the, 496, 521
Sitt Jumblatt, the, 449
Smith, Mr. W. H., 623;
letter from, 623
Somerset, Duke and Duchess of, 552, 758
Spain, Maria Theresa, ex-Queen of, 547
Speke, Lieut., 73, 140–144, 228, 355, 740
Spezzia, 107
Stafford, Lord, 468
Stanhope, Lady Hester, 361, 393, 426
Stanley, Lord, 230, 351
Stisted, Lady, 745
—— Miss, 393, 745;
her impeachment of Lady Burton, 510 et seq., 702, 736
Suez, 602, 612
Swinburne, Algernon, 354
Symmonds, Mr., 302

Tabút or Mūharram, Feast of, 575
Tanganyika, Lake, 142
Tangiers, 683
Teneriffe, 198 et seq.;
the Peak of, 210
Thornton, Sir Edward and Lady, 247
Tiberias, Lake of, 491
Treloar, Captain, 301, 338
Trieste, 531, 535 et seq., 604 et seq., 616 et seq.;
Burton a confirmed invalid, 689;
his death at, 700
Tunis, 694
Tupper, Martin, 619
Tyrwhitt-Drake, Mr. Charles, 473, 546, 547

Usagara Mountains, 141

Varden, Dr., 490
Vaughan, Cardinal, 709
Veldes, 630
Venice, 112, 533, 559;
Geographical Congress at, 631
Vevey, 130
Vienna, 544

Wahi, 592
Wales, the Prince of, 585, 687
Wali, the, 372, 391, 392;
his daughter’s wedding, 459, 464;
his dispute with Burton, 517
Warren, Sir Charles, 638
Waterton, Canon, 743, 760
Wikar Shums Ool Umárá, the, 582
Wilson, Miss Ellen, 435
—— Sir Andrew, 660
Windsor, Lady, 760
Wiseman, Cardinal, 713
Wright, Rev. W., 522
Wuld Ali, 461
Würtemberg, Duke of, 560

Zebedani, 437
Zeller, Mrs. Van, 15, 754
Zenobia, 419

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FOOTNOTES:

[1] [Miss Stisted speaks of her as “Jane Digby, who capped her wild career by marrying a camel-driver,” and animadverts on Lady Burton for befriending her. The Shaykh was never a camel-driver in his life, and few, I think, will blame Lady Burton for her kindness to this poor lady, her countrywoman, in a strange land.]

[2] The Inner Life of Syria, Palestine, and the Holy Land, by Isabel Burton, 2 vols.

[3] Lady Ellenborough referred to her biography, which she had dictated to Lady Burton—the true story of her life, which Lady Burton had promised to publish for her, to clear away misrepresentations. In consequence of difficulties which subsequently arose Lady Burton did not publish it.

[4] Miss Stisted’s Life of Sir Richard Burton, p. 360. This book was published December, 1896, eight months after Lady Burton’s death.

[5] The Case of Captain Burton, late H.B.M. Consul at Damascus. Clayton & Co., Parliamentary Printing Works, 1872.

[6] Vide Letter from Foreign Office to Captain Burton, June 19, 1869 (Blue Book, p. 2).

[7] Letter of Captain Burton to Foreign Office, June 21, 1869 (Blue Book, p. 2).

[8] Letter from Sir Henry Elliott to Lady Burton, July 12, 1871.

[9] Letter from Sir Henry Elliot to Lady Burton, July 12, 1871.

[10] Blue Book, p. 75.

[11] Blue Book, pp. 140, 141.

[12] Vide Letter from Lord Granville to Captain Burton, under Flying Seal, care of Consul-General Eldridge, July 22, 1871 (Blue Book, p. 109).

[13] Vide Letter of Captain Burton to Sir Henry Elliot, July 14, 1871 (Blue Book, pp. 95, 96).

[14] Letter from Captain Burton to the Rev. E. B. Frankel, Rev. J. Orr Scott, Miss James, Rev. W. Wright, and Rev. John Crawford, Bludán, July 19, 1871 (Blue Book, p. 92).

[15] Miss Stisted’s Life of Burton, p. 361.

[16] Lady Burton thus describes her visit to the Austrian Court: “I was very much dazzled by the Court. I thought everything was beautifully done, so arranged as to give every one pleasure, and somehow it was the graciousness that was in itself a welcome. I shall never forget the first night that I saw the Empress—a vision of beauty, clothed in silver, crowned with water-lilies, with large rows of diamonds and emeralds round her small head and her beautiful hair, and descending all down her dress in festoons. The throne-room is immense, with marble columns down each side—all the men arranged on one side and all the women on the other, and the new presentations with their ambassadors and ambassadresses nearest the throne. When the Emperor and Empress came in, they walked up the middle, the Empress curtseying most gracefully and smiling a general gracious greeting. They then ascended the throne, and presently the Empress turned to our side. The presentations first took place, and she spoke to each one in her own language, and on her own particular subject. I was quite entranced with her beauty, her cleverness, and her conversation. She passed down the ladies’ side, and then came up that of the men, the Emperor doing exactly the same as she had done. He also spoke to us. Then some few of us whose families the Empress knew about were asked to sit down, and refreshments were handed to us—the present Georgina Lady Dudley sitting by the Empress. It was a thing never to be forgotten to have seen those two beautiful women sitting side by side. The Empress Frederick of Germany—Crown Princess she was then—was also there, and sent for some of us on another day, which was in many ways another memorable event, and her husband also came in” (Life of Sir Richard Burton, by Isabel his wife, vol. ii., pp. 24, 25).

[17] This and the next chapter are compiled from the original notes from which Lady Burton wrote her A. E. I. and sundry letters and diaries. By so doing I am able to give the Indian tour in her own words.

[18] Speech at the British National Association of Spiritualists, December 13, 1878.

[19] Letter to Miss Bishop from Opçina, January 17, 1881.

[20] Letter to Miss Bishop from Trieste, December 5, 1881.

[21] This refers to Camoens: the Commentary, Life, and Lusiads. Englished by R. F. Burton. Two vols. Containing a Glossary, and Reviewers Reviewed, by Isabel Burton. 1880.

[22] From her devotional book Laméd, pp. 28, 29.

[23] Life of Sir Richard Burton, by Isabel his wife, vol. ii., p. 248.

[24] Gondokoro was the seat of Government of the Province of the Equator.

[25] Sir Samuel Baker, whom Gordon succeeded as Governor of the tribes which inhabit the Nile Basin in 1874.

[26] Romalus Gessi (Gessi Pasha), a member of Gordon’s staff.

[27] Mtesa, King of Uganda.

[28] Mr. Rivers Wilson.

[29] Nevertheless he permitted Dr. Birkbeck Hill to edit and publish his letters in 1881, which give a good account of his work in Central Africa.

[30] Johannis, King of Abyssinia.

[31] Colonel Prout, of the American army, for some time in command of the Equatorial Provinces.

[32] King of Unyoro, a powerful and treacherous savage. Sir Samuel Baker attempted to depose him, but Kaba Rega maintained his power.

[33] Life of Sir Richard Burton, by Isabel his wife, vol. ii., p. 177.

[34] He actually compiled a book of quotations from the Bible and Shakspeare for use in case of need, which he called The Black Book.

[35] Letter to Miss Bishop from Tangiers, Morocco, February 16, 1886.

[36] The late Lord Gerard.

[37] Letter to Miss Bird from Trieste, April 10, 1887.

[38] The Duchess of Fife.

[39] Letter to Miss Bishop, July 21, 1890.

[40] Lady Burton’s maid, now dead.

[41] Life of Sir Richard Burton, by Isabel his wife, vol. ii., pp. 410–414. This work was published in May, 1893.

[42] Miss Stisted’s Life of Burton, pp. 409–414.

[43] Translated from the Italian.

[44] A tonic, a strengthening restorative.

[45] An official (generally a physician) who visits the dead, and assures himself that the death is real, and not an apparent one.

[46] The Baroness Paul de Ralli, who procured the above attestation from the priest, sent it in the first instance to Cardinal Vaughan, together with the following letter:

“Trieste, Austria, January 19, 1897.

“My Lord Cardinal,

“There has lately been published a so-called ‘true’ Life of the late Sir Richard Burton, written by his niece. Since my letter to The Catholic Times, which appeared in the issue of December 24, it has been pointed out to me that it would be well if I could procure a written attestation of the priest who gave Extreme Unction to the late Sir Richard Burton. I am authorized by Monseigneur Sterk to place in the hands of your Eminence the enclosed manuscript, written by Monseigneur Martelani, who is now Prebendary of the Cathedral here. As an intimate friend of the Burtons, I beg to say that everything said about the life of the Burtons at this place in the ‘true’ life has been written from dictation, and, furthermore, that I could name the authoress’s informant, which makes the book worthless for those who know the source from which the authoress has gathered her information—the same source which has made Lady Burton’s life hideous from the day of her husband’s death to the time she left this place. As regards those who claim to have known all about Sir Richard Burton—‘They knew the man well,’ etc.—allow me to point out that the exoteric subtleties of his character were only exceeded by the esoteric; and to what an extent this is true is only known to those who were at the same time his friends and his wife’s intimate friends, of whom there are several here beside myself. My position at the Villa Gosslett was perhaps a little exceptional. Having come here from England in 1875 after my marriage, I was looked upon by the Burtons as a sort of ex-subject of theirs.

“Believe me to be, my Lord Cardinal,

“Yours faithfully,

“Catherine de Ralli.”

[47] Speech at the Anthropological Society, London, 1865.

[48] Lady Burton’s letter to The Morning Post, June 19, 1891.

[49] Vol. X. Arabian Nights, Terminal Essay, Section D, pp. 205, 206, 1886.

[50] Letter to Madame de Gutmansthal-Benvenuti, from London, March 1, 1891.

[51] Letter to Miss Bishop, December 27, 1891.

[52] Burton’s enemies.

[53] Letter to Miss Bishop from Mortlake, March 25, 1893.

[54] Letter to Madame de Gutmansthal-Benvenuti, January 10, 1894.

[55] Letter of Lady Burton written from Trieste to Mrs. Francis Joly, April 17, 1890.

[56] Holywell Lodge, Eastbourne, March 13, 1896.

Transcriber’s Notes:

1. Obvious printers’, punctuation and spelling errors have been corrected silently.

2. Where hyphenation is in doubt, it has been retained as in the original

3. Some hyphenated and non-hyphenated versions of the same words have been retained as in the original.

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