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The Life of Captain Sir Richard Burton

1893

I went to see Steigenwald's Bavarian glass and the porcelain with the Old Masters painted on it ascended to the top of the Cathedral tower to see the view and went to every museum and picture-gallery in the place and thought as most people do I imagine that the City was very pretty but the Art was very new. [...] One of these the Pont blows the people almost into the sea with its fury rising suddenly like a cyclone and sweeping all before it ; the second is named the Seirocco which blows the drainage back into the town ; and the third is the ConInute formed by the two first-named winds blowing at once against each other. [...] There is in every town a lot of old women of both sexes who sit for hours talking about the weather and the cancans of the place and this contingent cannot face the stairs.' " In spite of all this and perhaps because of it—for the famous Oriental traveller whose quarter of a hundred languages are hardly needed for the entry of cargoes at a third-rate seaport seems to protest too much—one is [...] " Then came the episode which fest gave the name of Speke to the world -the expedition in the country of the Somali on the cclitst of the Red Sea when the cords of the tent of Burton Speke Herne and the hapless Stroyan were cut by a band of a hundred and fifty armed Somali during the night after the desertion of their Eastern followers. [...] The house you inhabit is Dancu's old-fashioned rural country inn on the edge of the declivity and is a sort of outpost to the village of Opsina ; and its terrace commands all this lovely view— the finest in the world.
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Pages
681
Published in
United Kingdom
SARF Document ID
sarf.143056
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Frontmatter
i-x Isabel Burton view
Chapter I. Trieste—Itls Fourth and Last Consulate
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Chapter II. India
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Chapter III. The Deccan
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Chapter IV. A Quiet Time at Triestf
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Chapter V. Spiritualism
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Chapter VI. On Leave in London
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Chapter VII. On Slavery
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Chapter VIII. Preste Life Again
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Chapter IX. Anuther Short Leave to London
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Chapter X. Miscellneots Trans of Character and Opinions
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Chapter XI. Decline in our Well-Being
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Chapter XII. Richard on Home Rule and the Religious Question
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Chapter XIII. We Leave England
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Chapter XIV. Chancer
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Chapter XV. At Montreus
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Chapter XVI. We Return Home for the Last Time
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Chapter XVII. The Two Contested Polnts Between a Small Section of Antagonists and Myself
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Appendix
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Index
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