1 (return)
[ The few anecdotes that Lady
Burton does give are taken from the books of Alfred B. Richards and
others.]
2 (return)
[ Lady Burton to Mrs. E. J.
Burton, 23rd March 1891. See Chapter xxxix.]
3 (return)
[ A three days' visit to
Brighton, where I was the guest of Mrs. E. J. Burton, is one of the
pleasantest of my recollections.]
4 (return)
[ Mrs. Van Zeller had, in the
first instance, been written to, in my behalf, by Mrs. E. J. Burton.]
5 (return)
[ It is important to mention
this because a few months ago a report went the round of the newspapers to
the effect that the tomb was in ruins.]
6 (return)
[ See Chapter xvii.]
7 (return)
[ It is as if someone were to
write "Allah is my shepherd, I shall not want," &c., &c.,—here
and there altering a word—and call it a new translation of the
Bible.]
8 (return)
[ See almost any
'Cyclopaedia. Of the hundreds of person with whom I discussed the subject,
one, and only one, guessed how matters actually stood—Mr.
Watts-Dunton.]
9 (return)
[ Between Payne and Burton on
the one side and the adherents of E. W. Lane on the other.]
10 (return)
[ At the very outside, as
before stated, only about a quarter of it can by any stretch of the
imagination be called his.]
11 (return)
[ Burton's work on this
subject will be remembered.]
12 (return)
[ 31st July 1905.]
13 (return)
[ See Chapters xxii. to
xxix. and xxxv. He confessed to having inserted in The Arabian Nights a
story that had no business there. See Chapter xxix., 136.]
14 (return)
[ Thus she calls Burton's
friend Da Cunha, Da Gama, and gives Arbuthnot wrong initials.]
15 (return)
[ I mean in a particular
respect, and upon this all his friends are agreed. But no man could have
had a warmer heart.]
16 (return)
[ Particularly pretty is
the incident of the families crossing the Alps, when the children get snow
instead of sugar.]
17 (return)
[ Particularly Unexplored
Syria and his books on Midian.]
18 (return)
[ It will be noticed, too,
that in no case have I mentioned where these books are to be found. In
fact, I have taken every conceivable precaution to make this particular
information useless except to bona-fide students.]
19 (return)
[ I am not referring to
"Chaucerisms," for practically they do not contain any. In some two
hundred letters there are three Chaucerian expressions. In these instances
I have used asterisks, but, really, the words themselves would scarcely
have mattered. There are as plain in the Pilgrim's Progress.]
20 (return)
[ I have often thought that
the passage "I often wonder... given to the world to-day," contains the
whole duty of the conscientious biographer in a nutshell.]
21 (return)
[ Of course, after I had
assured them that, in my opinion, the portions to be used were entirely
free from matter to which exception could be taken.]
22 (return)
[ In the spelling of Arabic
words I have, as this is a Life of Burton, followed Burton, except, of
course, when quoting Payne and others. Burton always writes 'Abu Nowas,'
Payne 'Abu Nuwas,' and so on.]
23 (return)
[ Conclusion of The
Beharistan.]
24 (return)
[ They came from Shap.]
25 (return)
[ Thus there was a Bishop
Burton of Killala and an Admira Ryder Burton. See Genealogical Tree in the
Appendix.]
26 (return)
[ Mrs. Burton made a brave
attempt in 1875, but could never fill the gap between 1712 and 1750.]
27 (return)
[ Now the residence of Mr.
Andrew Chatto, the publisher.]
28 (return)
[ In 1818 the Inspector
writes in the Visitors' Book: "The Bakers seldom there." Still, the Bakers
gave occasional treats to the children, and Mrs. Baker once made a present
of a new frock to each of the girls.]
29 (return)
[ Not at Elstree as Sir
Richard Burton himself supposed and said, and as all his biographers have
reiterated. It is plainly stated in the Elstree register that he was born
at Torquay.]
30 (return)
[ The clergyman was David
Felix.]
31 (return)
[ Weare's grave is
unmemorialled, so the spot is known only in so far as the group in the
picture indicates it.]
32 (return)
[ He died 24th October
1828, aged 41; his wife died 10th September 1848. Both are buried at
Elstree church, where there is a tablet to their memory.]
33 (return)
[ For a time Antommarchi
falsely bore the credit of it.]
34 (return)
[ Maria, 18th March 1823;
Edward, 31st August 1824.]
35 (return)
[ Beneath is an inscription
to his widow, Sarah Baker, who died 6th March, 1846, aged 74 years.]
36 (return)
[ Her last subscription to
the school was in 1825. In 1840 she lived in Cumberland Place, London.]
37 (return)
[ The original is now in
the possession of Mrs. Agg, of Cheltenham.]
38 (return)
[ Wanderings in West
Africa, ii. P. 143.]
39 (return)
[ Life, i. 29.]
40 (return)
[ Goldsmith's Traveller,
lines 73 and 74.]
41 (return)
[ Life, i. 32.]
42 (return)
[ It seems to have been
first issued in 1801. There is a review of it in The Anti-Jacobin for that
year.]
43 (return)
[ She was thrown from her
carriage, 7th August 1877, and died in St. George's Hospital.]
44 (return)
[ Life, by Lady Burton, i.
67.]
45 (return)
[ Dr. Greenhill
(1814-1894), physician and author of many books.]
46 (return)
[ Vikram and the Vampire,
Seventh Story, about the pedants who resurrected the tiger.]
47 (return)
[ He edited successively
The Daily Telegraph and The Morning Advertiser, wrote plays and published
several volumes of poetry. He began The Career of R. F. Burton, and got as
far as 1876.]
48 (return)
[ City of the Saints, P.
513.]
49 (return)
[ Short died 31st May 1879,
aged 90.]
50 (return)
[ In Thomas Morton's Play
Speed the Plough, first acted in 1800.]
51 (return)
[ Grocers.]
52 (return)
[ Life, i. 81.]
53 (return)
[ Or so he said. The
President of Trinity writes to me: "He was repaid his caution money in
April 1842. The probability is that he was rusticated for a period." If
so, he could have returned to Oxford after the loss of a term or two.]
54 (return)
[ He died 17th November
1842, aged 65.]
55 (return)
[ Robert Montgomery
1807-1855.]
56 (return)
[ "My reading also ran into
bad courses—Erpenius, Zadkiel, Falconry, Cornelius Agrippa"—Burton's
Autobiographical Fragment.]
57 (return)
[ Sarah Baker (Mrs. Francis
Burton), Georgiana Baker (Mrs. Bagshaw).]
58 (return)
[ Sind Revisited. Vol. ii.
pp. 78-83.]
59 (return)
[ 5th May 1843. He was
first of twelve.]
60 (return)
[ "How," asked Mr. J. F.
Collingwood of him many years after, "do you manage to learn a language so
rapidly and thoroughly?" To which he replied: "I stew the grammar down to
a page which I carry in my pocket. Then when opportunity offers, or is
made, I get hold of a native—preferably an old woman, and get her to
talk to me. I follow her speech by ear and eye with the keenest attention,
and repeat after her every word as nearly as possible, until I acquire the
exact accent of the speaker and the true meaning of the words employed by
her. I do not leave her before the lesson is learnt, and so on with others
until my own speech is indistinguishable from that of the native."—Letter
from Mr. Collingwood to me, 22nd June 1905.]
61 (return)
[ The Tota-kahani is an
abridgment of the Tuti-namah (Parrot-book) of Nakhshabi. Portions of the
latter were translated into English verse by J. Hoppner, 1805. See also
Anti-Jacobin Review for 1805, p. 148.]
62 (return)
[ Unpublished letter to Mr.
W. F. Kirby, 8th April 1885. See also Lib. Ed. of The Arabian Nights,
viii., p. 73, and note to Night V.]
63 (return)
[ This book owes whatever
charm it possesses chiefly to the apophthegms embedded in it. Thus, "Even
the gods cannot resist a thoroughly obstinate man." "The fortune of a man
who sits, sits also." "Reticence is but a habit. Practise if for a year,
and you will find it harder to betray than to conceal your thoughts."
64 (return)
[ Now it is a town of
80,000 inhabitants.]
65 (return)
[ Sind Revisited, i. 100.]
66 (return)
[ "The first City of Hind."
See Arabian Nights, where it is called Al Mansurah, "Tale of Salim."
Burton's A. N., Sup. i., 341. Lib Ed. ix., 230.]
67 (return)
[ Mirza=Master. Burton met
Ali Akhbar again in 1876. See chapter xviii., 84.]
68 (return)
[ Yoga. One of the six
systems of Brahmanical philosophy, the essence of which is meditation. Its
devotees believe that by certain ascetic practices they can acquire
command over elementary matter. The Yogi go about India as
fortune-tellers.]
69 (return)
[ Burton used to say that
this vice is prevalent in a zone extending from the South of Spain through
Persia to China and then opening out like a trumpet and embracing all
aboriginal America. Within this zone he declared it to be endemic, outside
it sporadic.]
70 (return)
[ Burton's Arabian Nights,
Terminal Essay, vol. x. pp. 205, 206, and The Romance of Isabel Lady
Burton, by W. H. Wilkins, ii., 730.]
71 (return)
[ Married in 1845.]
72 (return)
[ She died 6th March 1846,
aged 74.]
73 (return)
[ He died 5th October 1858.
See Sind Revisited, ii. 261.]
74 (return)
[ Camoens, born at Lisbon
in 1524, reached Goa in 1553. In 1556 he was banished to Macao, where he
commenced The Lusiads. He returned to Goa in 1558, was imprisoned there,
and returned to Portugal in 1569. The Lusiads appeared in 1572. He died in
poverty in 1580, aged 56.]
75 (return)
[ The Arabian Nights.]
76 (return)
[ Who was broken on the
wheel by Lord Byron for dressing Camoens in "a suit of lace." See English
Bards and Scotch Reviewers.]
77 (return)
[ Begun at Goa 1847,
resumed at Fernando Po 1860-64, continued in Brazil and at Trieste.
Finished at Cairo 1880.]
78 (return)
[ Napier was again in India
in 1849. In 1851 he returned to England, where he died 29th August 1853,
aged 71.]
79 (return)
[ Life of Sir Charles
Napier, by Sir W. Napier.]
80 (return)
[ The Beharistan, 1st
Garden.]
81 (return)
[ She married Col. T. Pryce
Harrison. Her daughter is Mrs. Agg, of Cheltenham.]
82 (return)
[ She died 10th September
1848, and is buried at Elstree.]
83 (return)
[ Elisa married Colonel T.
E. H. Pryce.]
84 (return)
[ That is from Italy, where
his parents were living.]
85 (return)
[ Sir Henry Stisted, who in
1845 married Burton's sister.]
86 (return)
[ India, some 70 miles from
Goa.]
87 (return)
[ His brother.]
88 (return)
[ The Ceylonese Rebellion
of 1848.]
89 (return)
[ See Chapter iii., 11.]
90 (return)
[ See Arabian Nights,
Terminal Essay D, and The Romance of Isabel Lady Burton, vol. ii., p.
730.]
91 (return)
[ His Grandmother Baker had
died in 1846.]
92 (return)
[ The Pains of Sleep.]
93 (return)
[ Byron: Childe Harold, iv.
56.]
94 (return)
[ Ariosto's Orlando was
published in 1516; The Lusiads appeared in 1572.]
95 (return)
[ Temple Bar, vol. xcii.,
p. 335.]
96 (return)
[ As did that of the beauty
in The Baital-Pachisi—Vikram and the Vampire. Meml. Ed., p. 228.]
97 (return)
[ Tale of Abu-el-Husn and
his slave girl, Tawaddud.—The Arabian Nights.]
98 (return)
[ Life, i., 167.]
99 (return)
[ She became Mrs. Segrave.]
100 (return)
[ See Burton's Stone
Talk, 1865. Probably not "Louise" at all, the name being used to suit the
rhyme.]
101 (return)
[ Mrs. Burton was always
very severe on her own sex.]
102 (return)
[ See Stone Talk.]
103 (return)
[ See Chapter x.]
104 (return)
[ The original, which
belonged to Miss Stisted, is now in the possession of Mr. Mostyn Pryce, of
Gunley Hall.]
105 (return)
[ Of course, since
Arbuthnot's time scores of men have taken the burden on their shoulders,
and translations of the Maha-Bharata, the Ramayana, and the works of
Kalidasa, Hafiz, Sadi, and Jami, are now in the hands of everybody.]
106 (return)
[ Preface to Persian
Portraits.]
107 (return)
[ Pilgrimage to
El-Medinah and Meccah, Memorial Ed., vol. i., p. 16.]
108 (return)
[ Burton dedicated to Mr.
John Larking the 7th volume of The Arabian Nights.]
109 (return)
[ Haji Wali in 1877
accompanied Burton to Midian. He died 3rd August 1883, aged 84. See
Chapter xx.]
110 (return)
[ He died at Cairo, 15th
October 1817.]
111 (return)
[ That is, in the
direction of Mecca.]
112 (return)
[ Pilgrimage, Memorial
Ed., i., 116.]
113 (return)
[ See Preface to The
Kasidah, Edition published in 1894.]
114 (return)
[ Pilgrimage, Memorial
Ed., i., 165.]
115 (return)
[ A chieftain celebrated
for his generosity. There are several stories about him in The Arabian
Nights.]
116 (return)
[ An incrementative of
Fatimah.]
117 (return)
[ Burton says of the
Arabs, "Above all their qualities, personal conceit is remarkable; they
show it in their strut, in their looks, and almost in every word. 'I am
such a one, the son of such a one,' is a common expletive, especially in
times of danger; and this spirit is not wholly to be condemned, as it
certainly acts as an incentive to gallant actions."—Pilgrimage, ii,
21., Memorial Ed.]
118 (return)
[ Pilgrimage to Meccah,
Memorial Ed., i., 193.]
119 (return)
[ A creation of the poet
Al-Asma'i. He is mentioned in The Arabian Nights.]
120 (return)
[ How this tradition
arose nobody seems to know. There are several theories.]
121 (return)
[ It is decorated to
resemble a garden. There are many references to it in the Arabian Nights.
Thus the tale of Otbah and Rayya (Lib. Ed., v., 289) begins "One night as
I sat in the garden between the tomb and the pulpit."
122 (return)
[ Pilgrimage to Meccah
(Mem. Ed., i., 418).]
123 (return)
[ Mohammed's son-in-law.]
124 (return)
[ Mohammed's wet nurse.]
125 (return)
[ Son of Mohammed and the
Coptic girl Mariyah, sent to Mohammed as a present by Jarih, the Governor
of Alexandria.]
126 (return)
[ Khadijah, the first
wife, lies at Mecca.]
127 (return)
[ Known to us chiefly
through Dr. Carlyle's poor translation. See Pilgrimage, ii., 147.]
128 (return)
[ Here am I.]
129 (return)
[ Readers of The Arabian
Nights will remember the incident in the Story of the Sweep and the Noble
Lady. "A man laid hold of the covering of the Kaaba, and cried out from
the bottom of his heart, saying, I beseech thee, O Allah, etc."
130 (return)
[ See Genesis xxi., 15.]
131 (return)
[ The stone upon which
Abraham stood when he built the Kaaba. Formerly it adjoined the Kaaba. It
is often alluded to in The Arabian Nights. The young man in The Mock
Caliph says, "This is the Place and thou art Ibrahim."
132 (return)
[ See also The Arabian
Nights, The Loves of Al-Hayfa and Yusuf, Burton's A.N. (Supplemental),
vol. v.; Lib. Ed., vol. xi., p. 289.]
133 (return)
[ Burton's A.N., v., 294;
Lib. Ed., iv., 242.]
134 (return)
[ See Chapter ix.]
135 (return)
[ Sporting Truth.]
136 (return)
[ The reader may believe
as much of this story as he likes.]
137 (return)
[ The man was said to
have been killed in cold blood simply to silence a wagging tongue.]
138 (return)
[ See Shakespeare's King
John, act i., scene i.]
139 (return)
[ Burton's translation of
the Lusiads, vol. ii., p. 425.]
140 (return)
[ Although Burton began
El Islam about 1853, he worked at it years after. Portions of it certainly
remind one of Renan's Life of Jesus, which appeared in 1863.]
141 (return)
[ To some of the beauties
of The Arabian Nights we shall draw attention in Chapter 27.]
142 (return)
[ Of course both Payne
and Burton subsequently translated the whole.]
143 (return)
[ First Footsteps in East
Africa. (The Harar Book.) Memorial Ed., p. 26.]
144 (return)
[ Esther, vi., 1.]
145 (return)
[ Boulac is the port of
Cairo. See Chapter xi..]
146 (return)
[ Zeyn al Asnam, Codadad,
Aladdin, Baba Abdalla, Sidi Nouman, Cogia Hassan Alhabbal, Ali-Baba, Ali
Cogia, Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Peri-Banou, The two Sisters who were
jealous of their Cadette.]
147 (return)
[ Edward William Lane
(1801-1876). He is also remembered on account of his Arabic Lexicon. Five
volumes appeared in 1863-74, the remainder by his grand-nephew Stanley
Lane-Poole, in 1876-1890.]
148 (return)
[ Every student, however,
must be grateful to Lane for his voluminous and valuable notes.]
149 (return)
[ Lady Burton states
incorrectly that the compact was made in the "winter of 1852," but Burton
was then in Europe.]
150 (return)
[ My authorities are Mr.
John Payne, Mr. Watts-Dunton and Burton's letters. See Chapter 22, 104,
and Chapter 23, 107.]
151 (return)
[ It was prophesied that
at the end of time the Moslem priesthood would be terribly corrupt.]
152 (return)
[ Later he was thoroughly
convinced of the soundness of this theory. See Chapters xxii. to xxx.]
153 (return)
[ In the Koran.]
154 (return)
[ Burton's A.N., ii. 323;
Lib. Ed., ii., p. 215.]
155 (return)
[ When the aloe sprouts
the spirits of the deceased are supposed to be admitted to the gardens of
Wak (Paradise). Arabian Nights, Lib. Ed., i. 127.]
156 (return)
[ To face it out.]
157 (return)
[ First Footsteps in East
Africa, i., 196.]
158 (return)
[ First Footsteps in East
Africa, ii., 31.]
159 (return)
[ The legend of Moga is
similar to that of Birnam Wood's March, used by Shakespeare in Macbeth.]
160 (return)
[ The story of these
adventures is recorded in First Footsteps in East Africa, dedicated to
Lumsden, who, in its pages, is often apostrophised as "My dear L."
161 (return)
[ Afterwards Lord
Strangford. The correspondence on this subject was lent me by Mr. Mostyn
Pryce, who received it from Miss Stisted.]
162 (return)
[ The Traveller.]
163 (return)
[ Burton's Camoens, ii.,
445.]
164 (return)
[ The marriage did not
take place till 22nd January 1861. See Chapter x.]
165 (return)
[ This is now in the
public library at Camberwell.]
166 (return)
[ In England men are
slaves to a grinding despotism of conventionalities. Pilgrimage to Meccah,
ii., 86.]
167 (return)
[ Unpublished letter to
Miss Stisted, 23rd May 1896.]
168 (return)
[ We have given the
stanza in the form Burton first wrote it—beginning each line with a
capital. The appearance of Mombasa seems to have been really imposing in
the time of Camoens. Its glory has long since departed.]
169 (return)
[ These little bags were
found in his pocket after his death. See Chapter xxxviii.]
170 (return)
[ This story nowhere
appears in Burton's books. I had it from Mr. W. F. Kirby, to whom Burton
told it.]
171 (return)
[ The Lake Regions of
Central Africa, 1860.]
172 (return)
[ Subsequently altered to
"This gloomy night, these grisly waves, etc." The stanza is really
borrowed from Hafiz. See Payne's Hafiz, vol. i., p.2.]