e is but a habit. Practise if for a year, and you will find it
harder to betray than to conceal your thoughts."
[Footnote 64: Now it is a town of 80,000 inhabitants.]
[Footnote 65: Sind Revisited, i. 100.]
[Footnote 66: "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.]
[Footnote 67: Mirza=Master. Burton met Ali Akhbar again in 1876. See chapter
xviii., 84.]
[Footnote 68: 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.]
[Footnote 69: 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.]
[Footnote 70: Burton's Arabian Nights, Terminal Essay, vol. x. pp. 205, 206,
and The Romance of Isabel Lady Burton, by W. H. Wilkins, ii., 730.]
[Footnote 71: Married in 1845.]
[Footnote 72: She died 6th March 1846, aged 74.]
[Footnote 73: He died 5th October 1858. See Sind Revisited, ii. 261.]
[Footnote 74: 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.]
[Footnote 75: The Arabian Nights.]
[Footnote 76: Who was broken on the wheel by Lord Byron for dressing Camoens
in "a suit of lace." See English Bards and Scotch Reviewers.]
[Footnote 77: Begun at Goa 1847, resumed at Fernando Po 1860-64, continued in
Brazil and at Trieste. Finished at Cairo 1880.]
[Footnote 78: Napier was again in India in 1849. In 1851 he returned to
England, where he died 29th August 1853, aged 71.]
[Footnote 79: Life of Sir Charles Napier, by Sir W. Napier.]
[Footnote 80: The Beharistan, 1st Garden.]
[Footnote 81: She married Col. T. Pryce Harrison. Her daughter is Mrs. Agg, of
Cheltenham.]
[Footnote 82: She died 10th September 1848, and is buried at Elstree.]
[Footnote 83: Elisa married Colonel T. E. H. Pryce.]
[Footnote 84: That is from Italy, where his parents were living.]
[Footnote 85: Sir Henry Stisted, who in 1845
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