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married Burton's sister.] [Footnote 86: India, some 70 miles from Goa.] [Footnote 87: His brother.] [Footnote 88: The Ceylonese Rebellion of 1848.] [Footnote 89: See Chapter iii., 11.] [Footnote 90: See Arabian Nights, Terminal Essay D, and The Romance of Isabel Lady Burton, vol. ii., p. 730.] [Footnote 91: His Grandmother Baker had died in 1846.] [Footnote 92: The Pains of Sleep.] [Footnote 93: Byron: Childe Harold, iv. 56.] [Footnote 94: Ariosto's Orlando was published in 1516; The Lusiads appeared in 1572.] [Footnote 95: Temple Bar, vol. xcii., p. 335.] [Footnote 96: As did that of the beauty in The Baital-Pachisi--Vikram and the Vampire. Meml. Ed., p. 228.] [Footnote 97: Tale of Abu-el-Husn and his slave girl, Tawaddud.--The Arabian Nights.] [Footnote 98: Life, i., 167.] [Footnote 99: She became Mrs. Segrave.] [Footnote 100: See Burton's Stone Talk, 1865. Probably not "Louise" at all, the name being used to suit the rhyme.] [Footnote 101: Mrs. Burton was always very severe on her own sex.] [Footnote 102: See Stone Talk.] [Footnote 103: See Chapter x.] [Footnote 104: The original, which belonged to Miss Stisted, is now in the possession of Mr. Mostyn Pryce, of Gunley Hall.] [Footnote 105: 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.] [Footnote 106: Preface to Persian Portraits.] [Footnote 107: Pilgrimage to El-Medinah and Meccah, Memorial Ed., vol. i., p. 16.] [Footnote 108: Burton dedicated to Mr. John Larking the 7th volume of The Arabian Nights.] [Footnote 109: Haji Wali in 1877 accompanied Burton to Midian. He died 3rd August 1883, aged 84. See Chapter xx.] [Footnote 110: He died at Cairo, 15th October 1817.] [Footnote 111: That is, in the direction of Mecca.] [Footnote 112: Pilgrimage, Memorial Ed., i., 116.] [Footnote 113: See Preface to The Kasidah, Edition published in 1894.] [Footnote 114: Pilgrimage, Memorial Ed., i., 165.] [Footnote 115: A chieftain celebrated for his generosity. There are several stories about him in The Arabian Nights.] [Footnote 116: An incrementative of Fatimah.] [Footnote 117: 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. '
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