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.]
[CHAPTER XVII.]
THE TWO CONTESTED POINTS BETWEEN A SMALL SECTION OF ANTAGONISTS AND MYSELF.
[My defence about the burnt MS.—To the Echo]—[And to the New Review]—[Religion]—[I take my leave]—[Good-bye.]
[APPENDICES.]
[A.—List of Captain Sir Richard F. Burton's Works.]
[C—Bhujang and the Cock-fight.]
[D.—Visit to the Village of Meer Ibrahim Khan Talpur, a Beloch Chief.]
[G.—Description of African Character—The Raw Material in 1856-59.]
[H.—Report after going to search for Palmer.]
[I.—Opinions of the Press and of Scholars on the "Arabian Nights."]