[FN#368] Perhaps we ought again to state most emphatically that Burton’s outlook was strictly that of the student.  He was angry because he had, as he believed, certain great truths to tell concerning the geographical limits of certain vices, and an endeavour was being made to prevent him from publishing them.

[FN#369] Burton’s A. N. vi., 180; Lib.  Ed. v., 91, The Three Wishes, or the Man who longed to see the Night of Power.

[FN#370] The Lady and her Five Suitors, Burton’s A. N., vi., 172; Lib.  Ed., v., 83; Payne’s A. N., v., 306.  Of course Mr. Payne declined to do this.

[FN#371] Possibly this was merely pantomime.  Besant, in his Life of Palmer, p. 322, assumes that Matr Nassar, or Meter, as he calls him, was a traitor.

[FN#372] Cloak.

[FN#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.

[FN#374] Burton’s Report and Besant’s Life of Palmer, p. 328.

[FN#375] See Chapter vi., 22.

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

[FN#377] There were two editions of Mr. Payne’s Villon.  Burton is referring to the first.

[FN#378] Augmentative of palazzo, a gentleman’s house.

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

[FN#380] That which is knowable.

[FN#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.

[FN#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 Payne’s Study of Rabelais written eighteen years previous, and still unpublished.

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

[FN#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.

[FN#385] Three vols., 1884.

[FN#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.

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