as he calls him, was
a traitor.]

[Footnote 372: Cloak.]

[Footnote 373: Cursing is with Orientals a powerful weapon of defence. Palmer
was driven to it as his last resource. If he could not deter his enemies
in this way he could do no more.]

[Footnote 374: Burton's Report and Besant's Life of Palmer, p. 328.]

[Footnote 375: See Chapter vi., 22.]

[Footnote 376: Palmer translated only a few songs in Hafiz. Two will be found
in that well-known Bibelot, Persian Love Songs.]

[Footnote 377: There were two editions of Mr. Payne's Villon. Burton is
referring to the first.]

[Footnote 378: Augmentative of palazzo, a gentleman's house.]

[Footnote 379: We have altered this anecdote a little so as to prevent the
possibility of the blanks being filled up.]

[Footnote 380: That which is knowable.]

[Footnote 381: Let it be remembered that the edition was (to quote the
title-page) printed by private subscription and for private circulation
only and was limited to 500 copies at a high price. Consequently the
work was never in the hands of the general public.]

[Footnote 382: This was a favourite saying of Burton's. We shall run against
it elsewhere. See Chapter xxxiv., 159. Curiously enough, there is a
similar remark in Mr. Payne's Study of Rabelais written eighteen years
previous, and still unpublished.]

[Footnote 383: Practically there was only the wearisome, garbled, incomplete
and incorrect translation by Dr. Weil.]

[Footnote 384: The Love of Jubayr and the Lady Budur, Burton's A. N. iv., 234;
Lib. Ed., iii., 350; Payne's A. N., iv., 82.]

[Footnote 385: Three vols., 1884.]

[Footnote 386: The public were to some extent justified in their attitude.
They feared that these books would find their way into the hands of
others than bona fide students. Their fears, however, had no foundation.
In all the libraries visited by me extreme care was taken that none but
the genuine student should see these books; and, of course, they are not
purchasable anywhere except at prices which none but a student, obliged
to have them, would dream of giving.]

[Footnote 387: He married in 1879, Ellinor, widow of James Alexander Guthrie,
Esp., of Craigie, Forfarshire, and daughter of Admiral Sir James
Stirling.]

[Footnote 388: Early Ideas by an Aryan, 1881. Alluded to by Burton in A. N.,
Lib. Ed., ix., 209, note.]

[Footnote 389: Persian Portraits, 1887. "My friend Arbuthnot's pleasant
booklet, Persian Portraits," A. N. Li