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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