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

[FN#149] Lady Burton states incorrectly that the compact was made in the “winter of 1852,” but Burton was then in Europe.

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

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

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

[FN#153] In the Koran.

[FN#154] Burton’s A.N., ii. 323; Lib.  Ed., ii., p. 215.

[FN#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.

[FN#156] To face it out.

[FN#157] First Footsteps in East Africa, i., 196.

[FN#158] First Footsteps in East Africa, ii., 31.

[FN#159] The legend of Moga is similar to that of Birnam Wood’s March, used by Shakespeare in Macbeth.

[FN#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.”

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

[FN#162] The Traveller.

[FN#163] Burton’s Camoens, ii., 445.

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

[FN#165] This is now in the public library at Camberwell.

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

[FN#167] Unpublished letter to Miss Stisted, 23rd May 1896.

[FN#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.

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

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

[FN#171] The Lake Regions of Central Africa, 1860.

[FN#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?”

[FN#173] The ruler, like the country, is called Kazembe.

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