THE LIFE OF
CAPTAIN
SIR RICHARD F. BURTON,
K.C.M.G., F.R.G.S.
BY HIS WIFE,
ISABEL BURTON.
WITH NUMEROUS PORTRAITS, ILLUSTRATIONS,AND MAPS.
IN TWO VOLUMES.
VOL. II.
LONDON: CHAPMAN & HALL, LD.
1893.
CONTENTS.
CHAPTER I.
TRIESTE—HIS FOURTH AND LAST CONSULATE.
We meet by accident in Venice and go to Trieste—Richard as a"Celebrity at Home"—Articles by Alfred Bates Richards—Cicci—A wildrace—Opçina—Trieste life—And environs—Rome and the Tiber—Vienna—TheImperial family—Fiume—Castellieri—Duino—Venice—Good-byeto Charley Drake—Excursions—Proselytizing—Richard is very ill—CharleyDrake's death—Travelling for his health—The Nile on thetapis again—My Arab girl goes home to be married—Gordon—WinwoodReade's death—K.C.B.—Meeting Mr. Gladstone—Incidents of Londonlife—Excursions—More London life—Leave England.
CHAPTER II.
INDIA.
Jeddah—Bazars of Jeddah—Experiences on a crowdedpilgrim-ship—Bombay—Sind—Travelling in Sind—Richard's remarkson changes in Indian army—The Indian army—And Sind—TheMuhárram—Richard's old Persian moonshee—Mátherán—Karla Caves.