The Life of Captain Sir Richard F. Burton, volume 1 (of 2) By His Wife, Isabel Burton

been dispirited by not getting a single one of my letters, which all arrived in a heap afterwards. He had gone down over and over again to meet me, and I had not appeared, and n...

"Men don't believe in a devil now, as their fathers used to do; They've forced the door of the broadest creed to let his Majesty through. There isn't a print of his cloven foot,...

"My land has sweetest fruits and flowers, Such sweets I find not here. Alone--at night--in wakeful hours More pleasures find I there, Mine own dear land,--the land of Palms, Whe...

Landing in England was dolorous. Grandmamma Baker inflated her nostrils, and, delighted at escaping from those _crapauds_ and their kickshaws, quoted with effusion her favourite...

When Richard came home, he first ran down full of joy to visit all his relations and friends. He then went to Oxford with half a mind to take his degree. He was between twenty-e...

"At length we sight the Lake Tanganyika, or the 'Sea of Ujiji.' The route before us lay through a howling wilderness laid waste by the fierce Watuta. Mpete, on the right bank of...

When I landed at Bombay (October 28th, 1842), "Momba Devi" town was a marvellous contrast with the "Queen of Western India," as she thrones it in 1887; no City in Europe, except...

"Men and Deeds. Men that can dare and do; Not longing for the new, Not pratings of the old: Good life and action bold-- These the occasion needs, Men and Deeds." ----DUNCAN MACG...

Richard returned up the Red Sea to Egypt, and much enjoyed the rest and safety for a short time, and then returned to Bombay, his leave being up; but the wandering fever was sti...

In his "Wanderings in West Africa" (2 vols., 1863), Richard describes the whole of his jurisdiction, which was several hundred miles of coast. The ship, after leaving Madeira an...

It was the Royal Geographical Society which induced Lord Clarendon, Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, to supply Richard with funds for an exploration of the then utterly u...

The Crimean War is an affair of the last generation; thirty years' distance has given it a certain perspective, and assigned its proper rank and place in the panorama of the nin...

As it was Long Vacation at Oxford, and I could not take rooms at once in Trinity College, where my name had been put down, it was necessary to place me somewhere out of mischief...

At last the time came round for a second leave, and we had a second joyous meeting at Liverpool--this time to part no more as previously. It was on the 28th of August, soon afte...

"For life, with all its yields of joy and woe And hope and fear, Is just our chance o' the prize of learning love-- How love might be, hath been indeed, and is." ----ROBERT BROW...

"When we left Zanzibar the Sultan of Zanzibar and the Sawahil and his sons came on board with three letters of introduction. One was to Musa Mzuri, the Indian _doyen_ of the mer...

"He travels and expatriates; as the bee From flower to flower, so he from land to land, The manners, customs, policy of all Pay contributions to the store he gleans; He seeks in...

"Oh, when wilt thou return, my love? For as the moments glide, They leave me wishing still for thee, My husband, by my side; And ever at the evening hour My hopes more fondly bu...

I was born at 9.30 p.m., 19th March (Feast of St. Joseph in the calendar), 1821, at Barham House, Herts, and suppose I was baptized in due course at the parish church. My birth...

As soon as Richard was well home from the Crimea, and had attended Beatson's trial, he began to turn his attention to the "Unveiling of Isis," in other words, "Discovering the s...

Arriving in London, I was received by the family harem with some little astonishment, for they already knew enough of "terms" to be aware that the last was unfinished. I was qui...

Shádilis--Sufis becoming Catholics--They are tried and condemned--And persecuted--The Protestant converts--The Shádilis--Richard quotes Mr. Gladstone--Letters approving his cond...

I find Richard has had a cordial reception--We go to Palmyra, or Tadmor in the desert--We go without an escort--Tadmor--Camp life--Our travelling day--Night camps--Return home a...

There was no husband to meet me, and I felt very indignant, just as had happened at Rio last year to him. (Here I met Madame de Persigny.) I at once started for Damascus by road...

We explore Portugal--I rejoin him at Rio de Janeiro--Arrival at Santos and São Paulo--Life in Brazil--Brazilian life--Life at Rio--The Barra for contrast--To the mines in Minas...

Scenery--In an Arab craft to Ujiji--More Scenery --After twenty-seven days Speke returns--A fight--Are received with honour--A caravan arrives--Geographical remarks--Troublesome...

He starts for Harar in Somali-land--Preparations at Zayla--Desert journey--He enters the city in triumph--Interview with the Amir--Has great success--Damaging reports--He leaves...

We try to effect a reconciliation between Speke and Richard--My appeal to my mother--My letter to my mother--Not a success--News of Richard and subsequent return--A family counc...

Boulogne--Bayonet exercise--Meets me at Boulogne at school--His famous journey to Mecca and El Medinah--His start from Alexandria to Cairo--Twelve days in an open Sambúk--Ten da...

A long march--Marsh fever--They ascend from Zungomero to a better climate--From lovely scenery to fœtid marshes--Ants--The war-cry of the Wahúmba--Evil reports--Game--Vermin--A...

School at Richmond--Measles disperse the school--Education at Blois--They leave Blois for Italy--Pisa--Siena--Vetturino-travelling --Florence--Shooting--Rome in Holy Week --Sorr...

The voyage and arrival--The sanitarium--His moonshee--Indian Navy--English bigotry--Engages servants--Reaches Baroda--Brother officers--Mess --Drill--Pig-sticking--Sport--Societ...

Speke's death--Some lines I wrote on Richard and Speke--Richard's "Stone Talk"--Gaiety--Winwood Reade--We go to Ireland--Richard and Sir Bernard Burke--Bianconi--The anthropolog...

We sail for West Africa--We land at Madeira--Yellow fever--The peak of Teneriffe--I return home--Richard sent as H.M.'s Commissioner to Dahomè--Dahomè and Richard's travels--His...