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[Footnote 205: Burton]

[Footnote 206: Afa is the er of fetishes and of deceased friends Thus by the Afa diviner people communicate with the dead]

[Footnote 207: This was Dr Lancaster's computation]

[Footnote 208: Coe, son of Staff-Coe, Royal Navy]

[Footnote 209: Rev Edward Burton, Burton's grandfather, was Rector of Tuam

Bishop Burton, of Killala, was the Rev Edward Burton's brother]

[Footnote 210: The copy is in the Public Library, High Street, Kensington, where most of Burton's books are preserved]

[Footnote 211: Spanish for ”little one”

[Footnote 212: The Lusiads, 2 vols, 1878 Says Aubertin, ”In this city (Sao Paulo) and in the saan to read The Lusiads in 1860, the last stanza of the last canto was finished on the night of 24th February 1877”

[Footnote 213: Burton dedicated the 1st vol of his Arabian Nights to Steinhauser]

[Footnote 214: Dom Pedro, deposed 15th November 1889]

[Footnote 215: This anecdote differs considerably froive it, however, as told by Burton to his friends]

[Footnote 216: Lusiads, canto 6, stanza 95 Burton subsequently altered and spoilt it The stanza as given will be found on the opening page of the Brazil book]

[Footnote 217: He describes his experiences in his work The Battlefields of Paraguay]

[Footnote 218: Unpublished Toldwas made a cardinal in 1875]

[Footnote 219: Mr John Payne, however, proves to us that the old Rashi+'d, though a lover of the arts, was also a sensual and bloodthirsty tyrant

See Terhts, vol ix]

[Footnote 220: She thus signed herself after her very last e]

[Footnote 221: Mrs Burton's words]

[Footnote 222: Life i, p 486]

[Footnote 223: Arabian Nights Lib Ed, i, 215]

[Footnote 224: Burton generally writes Bedawi and Bedawin Bedawin (Bedouin) is the plural fore to Meccah, vol ii, p 80]

[Footnote 225: 1870 Three months after Mrs Burton's arrival]

[Footnote 226: It contained, a other treasures, a Greek manuscript of the Bible with the Epistle of Barnabas and a portion of the Shepherd of Hers, viii, 15]