[Footnote 228: The Romance of Isabel Lady Burton, ii., 386.]
[Footnote 229: 11th July 1870.]
[Footnote 230: E. H. Palmer (1840-1882). In 1871 he was appointed Lord Almoner"s Professor of Arabic at Cambridge. He was murdered at Wady Sudr, 11th August 1882. See Chapter xxiii.]
[Footnote 231: Renan. See, too, Paradise Lost, Bk. 1. Isaiah (xvii., 10) alludes to the portable "Adonis Gardens" which the women used to carry to the bier of the G.o.d.]
[Footnote 232: The Hamath of Scripture. 2. Sam., viii., 9; Amos, vi., 2.]
[Footnote 233: See ill.u.s.trations in Unexplored Syria, by Burton and Drake.]
[Footnote 234: The Land of Midian Revisited, ii., 73.]
[Footnote 235: Life of Edward H. Palmer, p. 109.]
[Footnote 236: Chica is the feminine of Chico (Spanish).]
[Footnote 237: Mrs. Burton"s expression.]
[Footnote 238: District east of the Sea of Galilee.]
[Footnote 239: Job, chapter x.x.x. "But now they that are younger than I have me in derision... who cut up mallows by the bushes and juniper roots for their meat."
[Footnote 240: Greek Geographer. 250 B.C.]
[Footnote 241: Burton"s words.]
[Footnote 242: Published in 1898.]
[Footnote 243: Life, i., 572.]
[Footnote 244: The Romance of Isabel Lady Burton, ii., 504.]
[Footnote 245: The Romance of Isabel Lady Burton, ii., 505.]
[Footnote 246: Temple Bar, vol. xcii., p. 339.]
[Footnote 247: Near St. Helens, Lancs.]
[Footnote 248: Life of Sir Richard Burton, by Lady Burton, i., 591.]
[Footnote 249: 2nd November 1871.]
[Footnote 250: The fountain was sculptured by Miss Hosmer.]
[Footnote 251: 27th February 1871. Celebration of the Prince of Wales"s recovery from a six weeks" attack of typhoid fever.]
[Footnote 252: Her husband"s case.]
[Footnote 253: Of course, this was an unnecessary question, for there was no mistaking the great scar on Burton"s cheek; and Burton"s name was a household word.]
[Footnote 254: February 1854. Sir Roger had sailed from Valparaiso to Rio Janeiro. He left Rio in the "Bella," which was lost at sea.]
[Footnote 255: Undated.]
[Footnote 256: Knowsley is close to Garswood, Lord Gerard"s seat.]
[Footnote 257: Letter, 4th January 1872.]
[Footnote 258: Garswood, Newton-le-Willows, Lancashire.]
[Footnote 259: Unpublished letter.]
[Footnote 260: The True Life, p. 336.]
[Footnote 261: It had just been vacated by the death of Charles Lever, the novelist. Lever had been Consul at Trieste from 1867 to 1872. He died at Trieste, 1st June 1872.]
[Footnote 262: Near Salisbury.]
[Footnote 263: Burton"s A.N. iv. Lib. Ed., iii., 282. Payne"s A.N. iii., 10.]
[Footnote 264: Told me by Mr. Henry Richard Tedder, librarian at the Athenaeum from 1874.]
[Footnote 265: Burton, who was himself always having disputes with cab-drivers and everybody else, probably sympathised with Mrs. Prodgers" crusade.]
[Footnote 266: Of 2nd November 1891.]
[Footnote 267: Lake Regions of Equatorial Africa (2 vols. 1860). Vol. 33 of the Royal Geographical Society, 1860, and The Nile Basin, 1864.]
[Footnote 268: A portion was written by Mrs. Burton.]
[Footnote 269: These are words used by children. Unexplored Syria, i., 288.
Nah really means sweetstuff.]
[Footnote 270: Afterwards Major-General. He died in April 1887. See Chapter ix., 38.]
[Footnote 271: Mrs. Burton and Khamoor followed on Nov. 18th.]
[Footnote 272: Burton"s works contain many citations from Ovid. Thus there are two in Etruscan Bologna, pp. 55 and 69, one being from the Ars Amandi and the other from The Fasti.]
[Footnote 273: Stendhal, born 1783. Consul at Trieste and Civita Vecchia from 1830 to 1839. Died in Paris, 23rd March 1842. Burton refers to him in a footnote to his Terminal Essay in the Nights on "Al Islam."
[Footnote 274: These are all preserved now at the Central Library, Camberwell.]
[Footnote 275: Now in the possession of Mrs. St. George Burton.]
[Footnote 276: In later times Dr. Baker never saw more than three tables.]