CONTENTS.
[CONSECRATION.]
[FOREWORD.]
[CHAPTER I.]
THE EARLY DAYS OF RICHARD F. BURTON.
[Family history]—[The Napoleon Romance]—[The Louis XIVth Romance].
[CHAPTER II.]
RICHARD'S BIRTH AND CHILDHOOD.
[Richard Burton's early life]—[At Tours]—[His first school]—[Trips]—[Grandmammas Baker and Burton]—[Aunt G.]—[They leave Tours].
[CHAPTER III.]
THE CHILDREN ARE BROUGHT TO ENGLAND.
[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]—[Sorrento]—[Classical games]—[Chess]—[Naples]—[Cholera]—[Marseille]—[Pau—Bagnières de Bigorres]—[Contrabandistas]—[Pau education]—[Argélés]—[The boys fall in love]—[Drawing]—[Music]—[The baths of Lucca]—[The boys get too old for home]—[Schinznach and England]—[The family break up.]
[CHAPTER IV.]
OXFORD.
[Practical jokes]—[Friends]—[Fencing-rooms]—[Manners and customs—Food and smoking]—[Drs. Newman and Pusey]—[Began Arabic]—[Play]—[Town life—College friends]—[Coaching and languages]—[Latin—Greek]—[Holidays]—[The Rhine to Wiesbaden]—[The Nassau Brigade]—[The straws that broke the camel's back]—[Rusticated].
[CHAPTER V.]
GOING TO INDIA.
[He gets a commission and begins Hindostani]—[He goes to be sworn in at the India Office].
[CHAPTER VI.]
MY PUBLIC LIFE BEGINS.
[The voyage and arrival]—[The sanitarium]—[His moonshee]—[Indian Navy]—[English bigotry]—[Engages servants]—[Reaches Baroda—Brother officers]—[Mess]—[Drill]—[Pig-sticking]—[Sport]—[Society]—[Feeding]—[Nautch]—[Reviews]—[Races]—[Cobden and Indian history]—[Somnath gates]—[Outram and Napier]—[He learns Indian riding and training]—[Passes exams. in Hindostani]—[Receives the Brahminical thread]—[On the march]—[Embarks for Sind]—[Karáchi, Sind]—[He passes in Maharátta].
[CHAPTER VII.]
THE REMINISCENCES WRITTEN FOR MR. HITCHMAN IN 1888—INDIA.
[A later chapter on same events differently told]—[His little autobiography]—[His books on India]—[Burying a Sányasi]—[His Indian career practically ends].
[CHAPTER VIII.]
ON RETURN FROM INDIA.
[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 days' ride to Mecca]—[Moslem Holy Week]—[The all-important crisis]—[His safe return]—[On board an English ship]—[Interesting letters]—[The Kasîdah]—[The end of the Kasîdah—Christian Poetry].
[CHAPTER IX.]
HARAR—THE MOSLEM ABYSSINIA—THE TIMBUCTOO OF EAST AFRICA, THE EXPLORATION OF WHICH HAD BEEN ATTEMPTED IN VAIN BY SOME THIRTY TRAVELLERS.
[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 Harar safely]—[A fearful desert journey]—[Want of water]—[They reach Berberah—Join Speke, Herne, Stroyan]—[He sails for Aden]—[Returns with forty men]—[They are attacked—A desperate fight]—[Richard and Speke desperately wounded].
[CHAPTER X.]
WITH BEATSON'S HORSE.
[The Crimea]—[End of Crimea]—[Beatson's trial].
[CHAPTER XI.]
BETWEEN THE CRIMEA AND THE LAKE REGIONS OF CENTRAL AFRICA.
[We become engaged]—[The story of Hagar Burton]—[Hagar Burton, the Gipsy]—[Our strange parting].
[CHAPTER XII.]
HIS EXPLORATION OF THE LAKE REGIONS, TAKING CAPTAIN SPEKE AS SECOND IN COMMAND.
[Preliminary canter]—[Hippopotamus shooting]—[Our first fever].
[CHAPTER XIII.]
THE REAL START FOR TANGANYIKA IN THE INTERIOR.
[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 hard jungle march]—[Description of caravans and difficulties]—[Reptiles]—[Ill and attended by a witch]—[Partial paralysis—Blindness—Elephants]—[The crossing of the great river Malagarázi].
[CHAPTER XIV.]
OUR REWARD—SUCCESS.
[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 following]—[Forest on fire]—[He sends Speke to find the Nyanza]—[The Chief Suna]—[Richard collects a vocabulary]—[Speke returns and the differences arose]—[Richard soliloquizes on Speke's change of front]—[For geographers]—[The kindness of Musa Mzuri and Snay bin Amir]—[Speke's illness]—[They cross the "Fiery Field"]—[An official wigging]—[Christmas Day, 1858]—[Speke leaves Richard ill, but apparently friendly].
[CHAPTER XV.]
RICHARD AND I MEET AGAIN.
[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 council decides the matter]—[Our wedding]—[We are received at home again]—[A delightful London season]—[Fire at Grindlay's]—[Delightful days at country houses]—[Richard goes to West Africa].
[CHAPTER XVI.]
WEST COAST OF AFRICA—RICHARD'S FIRST CONSULATE.
[The West African negroes]—[The black man is raised above the white man]—[Richard inaugurates a better state of things]—[Method of protecting the negro]—[Teaching fair treatment for the negro]—[West African gold].
[CHAPTER XVII.]
HIS FIRST LEAVE.
[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 travels, business, etc., on the West Coast].
[CHAPTER XVIII.]
HOME.
[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 anthropological farewell dinner]—[Lord Derby's speech as chairman]—[Richard returns thanks]—[He speaks his mind about the Nile].
[CHAPTER XIX.]
SANTOS, SÃO PAULO, BRAZIL—RICHARD'S SECOND CONSULATE.
[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 Gerães]—[We go down the big mine]—[Below]—[Chico and I start on a fifteen days' ride alone]—[The landlord of the hotel is mystified]—[Richard dangerously ill]—[Mesmerizing]—[Regatta]—[We leave Brazil—Richard goes south]—[Lord Derby gives Richard Damascus]—[His carbine pistol]—[Pleasant days in Vichy and Auvergne]—[The Fell Railway]—[Geographical disagreeables]—[Work]—[The Nile]—[Still the Nile]—[I sail for Damascus].
[CHAPTER XX.]
DAMASCUS—HIS THIRD CONSULATE.
[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 after desert]—[Native life]—[The Arabic library at Damascus—The library]—[The environs of Damascus]—[How our days were passed]—[Our reception day]—[A most interesting and remarkable woman]—[A romantic history]—[Richard's love for children]—[Richard's notes on our wilder travels]—[The Tulúl el Safá]—[Our home in the Anti-Lebanon]—[Our day]—[With Drake and Palmer in the Lebanon]—[Religious disturbances]—[Holo Pasha gives us a panther]—[The Druzes—Their stronghold]—[We camp at the Waters of Merom]—[Richard is stung by a scorpion]—[Explorations of unknown tracts]—[I prevent Rashíd Pasha's intentions taking effect]—[Rashíd's intrigue about the Druzes]—[The manner in which we are received in villages]—[Remarks on the journey]—[Kurdish dogs]—[Excursions to unknown tracts]—[Troubles from a self-appointed zealot]—[Usurers very troublesome]—[A Jehád threatened]—[Jews]—[Usurers try to remove Richard]—[Letters of indignation and sympathy]—[Jews]—[Omar Bey's fine mare—Horse-breeding]—[The Holy Land].
[CHAPTER XXI.]
RELIGION.
[Shádilis—Sufis becoming Catholics]—[They are tried and condemned]—[And persecuted]—[The Protestant converts]—[The Shádilis]—[Richard quotes Mr. Gladstone]—[Letters approving his conduct]—[Richard's answer and remarks]—[He leaves]—[I take a night ride across country]—[We were stoned at Nazareth]—[General information]—[Salih's description of Richard]—[Letters showing the state of Syria after his recall]—[The interval I remained as a hostage]—[I leave the Anti-Lebanon—Wind up at Damascus]—[I get fever]—[Eventually reach home]—[He gets an amende]—[We become penniless]—[Small jottings]—[Death of my mother]—[Richard accepts Trieste]—[The old story of shooting people, and a newer one]—[The truth]—[Difficulty of English officials doing their duty]—[Conclusion of his Damascus career].