now in the public library at Camberwell.]

[Footnote 166: In England men are slaves to a grinding despotism of
conventionalities. Pilgrimage to Meccah, ii., 86.]

[Footnote 167: Unpublished letter to Miss Stisted, 23rd May 1896.]

[Footnote 168: 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.]

[Footnote 169: These little bags were found in his pocket after his death. See
Chapter xxxviii.]

[Footnote 170: This story nowhere appears in Burton's books. I had it from Mr.
W. F. Kirby, to whom Burton told it.]

[Footnote 171: The Lake Regions of Central Africa, 1860.]

[Footnote 172: 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.]

"Dark the night and fears possess us, Of the waves and whirlpools
wild:
Of our case what know the lightly Laden on the shores that
dwell?"

[Footnote 173: The ruler, like the country, is called Kazembe.]

[Footnote 174: Dr. Lacerda died at Lunda 18th October 1798. Burton's
translation, The Lands of the Cazembe, etc., appeared in 1873.]

[Footnote 175: The Beharistan. 1st Garden.]

[Footnote 176: J. A. Grant, born 1827, died 10th February, 1892.]

[Footnote 177: The Romance of Isabel Lady Burton, i., 149.]

[Footnote 178: He is, of course, simply endorsing the statement of
Hippocrates: De Genitura: "Women, if married, are more healthy, if not,
less so."

[Footnote 179: The anecdotes in this chapter were told me by one of Burton's
friends. They are not in his books.]

[Footnote 180: This letter was given by Mrs. FitzGerald (Lady Burton's sister)
to Mr. Foskett of Camberwell. It is now in the library there, and I have
to thank the library committee for the use of it.]

[Footnote 181: Life, i., 345.]

[Footnote 182: 1861.]

[Footnote 183: Vambery's work, The Story of my Struggles, appeared in October
1904.]

[Footnote 184: The first edition appeared in 1859. Burton's works contain
scores of allusions to it. To the Gold Coast, ii., 164. Arabian Nights
(many places), etc., etc.]

[Footnote 185: Life of Lord Houghton, ii., 300.]

[Footnote 186: Lord Russell was Foreign Secretary from 1859-1865.]

[Footnote 187: Wanderings in West Africa, 2 vols., 1863.]

[Footnote 188: The genuine black, not the mu