[FN#207] This was Dr. Lancaster’s computation.

[FN#208] Communicated to me by Mr. W. H. George, son of Staff-Commander C. George, Royal Navy.

[FN#209] Rev. Edward Burton, Burton’s grandfather, was Rector of Tuam.  Bishop Burton, of Killala, was the Rev. Edward Burton’s brother.

[FN#210] The copy is in the Public Library, High Street, Kensington, where most of Burton’s books are preserved.

[FN#211] Spanish for “little one.”

[FN#212] The Lusiads, 2 vols., 1878.  Says Aubertin, “In this city (Sao Paulo) and in the same room in which I began to read The Lusiads in 1860, the last stanza of the last canto was finished on the night of 24th February 1877.”

[FN#213] Burton dedicated the 1st vol. of his Arabian Nights to Steinhauser.

[FN#214] Dom Pedro, deposed 15th November 1889.

[FN#215] This anecdote differs considerably from Mrs. Burton’s version, Life, i., 438.  I give it, however, as told by Burton to his friends.

[FN#216] Lusiads, canto 6, stanza 95.  Burton subsequently altered and spoilt it.  The stanza as given will be found on the opening page of the Brazil book.

[FN#217] He describes his experiences in his work The Battlefields of Paraguay.

[FN#218] Unpublished.  Told me by Mrs. E. J. Burton.  Manning was made a cardinal in 1875.

[FN#219] Mr. John Payne, however, proves to us that the old Rashi’d, though a lover of the arts, was also a sensual and bloodthirsty tyrant.  See Terminal Essay to his Arabian Nights, vol. ix.

[FN#220] She thus signed herself after her very last marriage.

[FN#221] Mrs. Burton’s words.

[FN#222] Life i., p. 486.

[FN#223] Arabian Nights.  Lib.  Ed, i., 215.

[FN#224] Burton generally writes Bedawi and Bedawin.  Bedawin (Bedouin) is the plural form of Bedawi.  Pilgrimage to Meccah, vol. ii., p. 80.

[FN#225] 1870.  Three months after Mrs. Burton’s arrival.

[FN#226] It contained, among other treasures, a Greek manuscript of the Bible with the Epistle of Barnabas and a portion of the Shepherd of Hermas.

[FN#227] 1 Kings, xix., 15; 2 Kings, viii., 15.

[FN#228] The Romance of Isabel Lady Burton, ii., 386.

[FN#229] 11th July 1870.

[FN#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.

[FN#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 god.

[FN#232] The Hamath of Scripture. 2.  Sam., viii., 9; Amos, vi., 2.

[FN#233] See illustrations in Unexplored Syria, by Burton and Drake.

[FN#234] The Land of Midian Revisited, ii., 73.

[FN#235] Life of Edward H. Palmer, p. 109.