[FN#236] Chica is the feminine of Chico (Spanish).

[FN#237] Mrs. Burton’s expression.

[FN#238] District east of the Sea of Galilee.

[FN#239] Job, chapter xxx.  “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.”

[FN#240] Greek Geographer. 250 B.C.

[FN#241] Burton’s words.

[FN#242] Published in 1898.

[FN#243] Life, i., 572.

[FN#244] The Romance of Isabel Lady Burton, ii., 504.

[FN#245] The Romance of Isabel Lady Burton, ii., 505.

[FN#246] Temple Bar, vol. xcii., p. 339.

[FN#247] Near St. Helens, Lancs.

[FN#248] Life of Sir Richard Burton, by Lady Burton, i., 591.

[FN#249] 2nd November 1871.

[FN#250] The fountain was sculptured by Miss Hosmer.

[FN#251] 27th February 1871.  Celebration of the Prince of Wales’s recovery from a six weeks’ attack of typhoid fever.

[FN#252] Her husband’s case.

[FN#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.

[FN#254] February 1854.  Sir Roger had sailed from Valparaiso to Rio Janeiro.  He left Rio in the “Bella,” which was lost at sea.

[FN#255] Undated.

[FN#256] Knowsley is close to Garswood, Lord Gerard’s seat.

[FN#257] Letter, 4th January 1872.

[FN#258] Garswood, Newton-le-Willows, Lancashire.

[FN#259] Unpublished letter.

[FN#260] The True Life, p. 336.

[FN#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.

[FN#262] Near Salisbury.

[FN#263] Burton’s A.N. iv.  Lib.  Ed., iii., 282.  Payne’s A.N. iii., 10.

[FN#264] Told me by Mr. Henry Richard Tedder, librarian at the Athenaeum from 1874.

[FN#265] Burton, who was himself always having disputes with cab-drivers and everybody else, probably sympathised with Mrs. Prodgers’ crusade.

[FN#266] Of 2nd November 1891.

[FN#267] Lake Regions of Equatorial Africa (2 vols. 1860).  Vol. 33 of the Royal Geographical Society, 1860, and The Nile Basin, 1864.

[FN#268] A portion was written by Mrs. Burton.

[FN#269] These are words used by children.  Unexplored Syria, i., 288.  Nah really means sweetstuff.

[FN#270] Afterwards Major-General.  He died in April 1887.  See Chapter ix., 38.

[FN#271] Mrs. Burton and Khamoor followed on Nov. 18th.

[FN#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.

[FN#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.”