which appeared in 1863.]

[Footnote 141: To some of the beauties of The Arabian Nights we shall draw
attention in Chapter 27.]

[Footnote 142: Of course both Payne and Burton subsequently translated the
whole.]

[Footnote 143: First Footsteps in East Africa. (The Harar Book.) Memorial Ed.,
p. 26.]

[Footnote 144: Esther, vi., 1.]

[Footnote 145: Boulac is the port of Cairo. See Chapter xi..]

[Footnote 146: 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.]

[Footnote 147: 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.]

[Footnote 148: Every student, however, must be grateful to Lane for his
voluminous and valuable notes.]

[Footnote 149: Lady Burton states incorrectly that the compact was made in the
"winter of 1852," but Burton was then in Europe.]

[Footnote 150: My authorities are Mr. John Payne, Mr. Watts-Dunton and
Burton's letters. See Chapter 22, 104, and Chapter 23, 107.]

[Footnote 151: It was prophesied that at the end of time the Moslem priesthood
would be terribly corrupt.]

[Footnote 152: Later he was thoroughly convinced of the soundness of this
theory. See Chapters xxii. to xxx.]

[Footnote 153: In the Koran.]

[Footnote 154: Burton's A.N., ii. 323; Lib. Ed., ii., p. 215.]

[Footnote 155: 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.]

[Footnote 156: To face it out.]

[Footnote 157: First Footsteps in East Africa, i., 196.]

[Footnote 158: First Footsteps in East Africa, ii., 31.]

[Footnote 159: The legend of Moga is similar to that of Birnam Wood's March,
used by Shakespeare in Macbeth.]

[Footnote 160: 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."

[Footnote 161: Afterwards Lord Strangford. The correspondence on this subject
was lent me by Mr. Mostyn Pryce, who received it from Miss Stisted.]

[Footnote 162: The Traveller.]

[Footnote 163: Burton's Camoens, ii., 445.]

[Footnote 164: The marriage did not take place till 22nd January 1861. See
Chapter x.]

[Footnote 165: This is