[3] All Consuls, especially men who live in the East, will understand me.—I. B.
[4] I have had to endure the same since I have been a real widow.—I. B.
[5] I wrote this on the spot, end of 1871.—I. B.
[6] Meaning bribes.—I. B.
[7] Charles T. Pickering, "The Last Singers of Bukhára."
[8] It is a valuable book, chiefly for its philosophical transactions, antiquarian proceedings, and philological miscellanies, and the mineral resources of the island.—I. B.
[9] I never saw Richard so angry in my life; his lips puffed out with rage.—I. B.
[10] The just departed Earl of Derby.
[11] From Lord Stratford de Redcliffe's "Shadows of the Past."