[The View from the Burtons' Bedroom and Study over the Sea at Trieste.]
[The Mausoleum at Mortlake, where Sir Richard Burton is laid at rest.]
[THE LIFE OF SIR RICHARD BURTON.]
CHAPTER I.
TRIESTE—HIS FOURTH AND LAST CONSULATE.
On the 24th of October, 1872, Richard left England for Trieste, to pass, though we little thought it then, the last eighteen years of his life. He was recommended to go to Trieste by sea, which always did him so much good. He was to go on and look for a house, hire servants, etc.; and I was to lay in the usual stock of everything a Consul could want, and follow as soon as might be by land. We all went down to Southampton to see him off, but, as the gale and fog were awful, they were only able to steam out and anchor in the Yarmouth Roads.[1]