[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].