Chapter I: Front Matter

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 wild race--Opçina--Trieste life--And environs--Rome and the Tiber--Vienna--The Imperial family--Fiume--_Castellieri_--Duino--Venice--Good-bye to Charley Drake--Excursions--Proselytizing--Richard is very ill--Charley Drake's death--Travelling for his health--The Nile on the _tapis_ again--My Arab girl goes home to be married--Gordon--Winwood Reade's death--K.C.B.--Meeting Mr. Gladstone--Incidents of London life--Excursions--More London life--Leave England.

CHAPTER II.

INDIA.

Jeddah--Bazars of Jeddah--Experiences on a crowded pilgrim-ship--Bombay--Sind--Travelling in Sind--Richard's remarks on changes in Indian army--The Indian army--And Sind--The Muhárram--Richard's old Persian _moonshee_--Mátherán--Karla Caves.

CHAPTER III.

THE DECCAN.

Hyderabad in the Deccan--Elephant riding--Ostrich race--Hospitality--Eastern hospitality at Hyderabad--Golconda--The famous Koh-i-noor--Regret at leaving the Deccan--Towers of Silence--Sects--The Hindu _Smáshán_--The Pinjrapole--Bhendi Bazar--Máhábáleshwar--Goa and West India--Life there--What to see--The Inquisition--Xavier's death--The Inquisition perishes--Sea journey to Suez--After a stay in Egypt, to Trieste.

CHAPTER IV.

A QUIET TIME AT TRIESTE.

Delightful Trieste life--Henri V. of France--Bertoldstein--Midian--Akkas--Waiting and working--I go out to join him--Richard's triumphant return--We go home--The British Association for Science--Society and amusement.

CHAPTER V.

SPIRITUALISM.

Spiritualism--A memorable meeting on the subject--Richard's lecture--Some very amusing and instructive speeches--Interesting discussions--And letters.

CHAPTER VI.

ON LEAVE IN LONDON.

A remarkable visit--On leave in London--We leave London--I get a bad fall--The Austrian Scientific Congress--A ghost story--Excursions--Richard sends me home to a bone-setter--Richard meets with foul play--Camoens--A little anecdote about a Capuchin--The Passion Play--Ober-Ammergau--Celebrating a Vice-Consul's jubilee--Monfalcone--Richard's metal and colour.

CHAPTER VII.

ON SLAVERY.

Richard's three letters to Lord Granville--His application to be made Slave-Commissioner--How to deal with the slave scandal in Egypt.

CHAPTER VIII.

TRIESTE LIFE AGAIN.

Duino--Our Squadron--Our Squadron leaves--We go to Veldes--We part company--I am sent to Maríenbad--The Scientific Congress at Venice--Life and incidents of Trieste--Gold in West Africa--Mining--African mines.

CHAPTER IX.

ANOTHER SHORT LEAVE TO LONDON.

London and back--The Great Trieste Exhibition--_Émeute_ at Trieste--We lose an old Vice-Consul--Lord Wolseley--Richard is sent to find Palmer--Trieste life--Count Mattei's cure--Count Mattei--We get the house we wanted--Scorpions--"Gup".

CHAPTER X.

MISCELLANEOUS TRAITS OF CHARACTER AND OPINIONS.

Miscellaneous traits of character and opinions--Descriptions from other sources.

CHAPTER XI.

DECLINE IN OUR WELL-BEING.

Richard's first bad attack of gout--His leave of absence--We return to Trieste--Streams of visitors--Richard's second attack of gout--Gordon's death--Colonel Primrose's death--Leave to England--"Arabian Nights"--London again--Richard's programme for Egypt--He asks for Tangier--Parts with my father--Goes to Marocco--What the world said--He waits for me at Tangier.

CHAPTER XII.

RICHARD ON HOME RULE AND THE RELIGIOUS QUESTION.

Diet for Ireland--Another postscript--Treatment of Catholics and loyalty--We winter in Marocco--Richard made a K.C.M.G.--A bad hurricane at sea--I have another fall--Naples--The great Chinese move--We get leave again to England--Oxford--His last appeal to Government--What the world thought about it--Chow-chow--His third bad attack of gout without danger.

CHAPTER XIII.

WE LEAVE ENGLAND.

Cannes and Society--The earthquakes--Riviera--Richard becomes an invalid--His own account of it--Our journey with Dr. Leslie--Drains--The Queen's Jubilee--Richard's speech--_Ally Sloper_--We think of a caravan--He gets much better--We go for our summer trip--Some of our Royalties come to Trieste--We lose Dr. Leslie, and Dr. Baker comes to us.

CHAPTER XIV.

CHANGES.

Programme of our day--Abbazia--We return to Trieste--His notes on his Swiss summer--Aigle--Our last visit to England--Richard leaves it for ever--His advice about Suákin--Discussing about Ludlow--Richard's remarks on Lausanne.

CHAPTER XV.

AT MONTREUX.

M. Elisée Réclus--Our Swiss outing--Trieste again--Maria-Zell--Austrian Lourdes--Semmering--Home again--Malta--Tunis--Carthage--Constantine--Sétif-- Bouira--Algiers--Hammam R'irha--Things one would rather have left unsaid--Marseilles--Hyères--Nice--Home--Our last trip--Switzerland--Davos-Platz--Ragatz--St. Moritz--Maloja--We descend into Italy homewards.

CHAPTER XVI.

WE RETURN HOME FOR THE LAST TIME.

Our last happy day--The sword falls--He is called away--The sixty hours between death and funeral--The funeral at Trieste--The dreadful time that followed--Colonel Grant attacks Richard after his death--I answer directly to the _Graphic_ in two parts--My answer--The beloved remains are removed to England--I leave Trieste and go to Liverpool--I fall ill--The mausoleum tent complete--The funeral in England at Mortlake--"It" confesses: too late.