THE LIFE OF SIR RICHARD BURTON

By Thomas Wright

Author of "The Life of Edward Fitzgerald," etc.

Two Volumes in One

This Work is
Dedicated to
Sir Richard Burton's Kinsman
And Friend,
Major St. George Richard Burton,
The Black Watch.

CONTENTS

Preface.

Chapter I. 19th March 1821-October 1840

1. Torquay and Elstree.

2. Tours and Elstree.

3. Death of Richard Baker, 16th September 1824.

4. At School, Richmond, 1829.

5. The Continent Again.

Chapter II. October 1840-April 1842, Oxford

6. Trinity College, October 1840.

7. Expelled, April 1842.

Chapter III. April 1842-20th February 1847, Sind

8. To Bombay, 18th June 1842.

9. Baroda. The Bubu.

10. Karachi. Love of Disguise.

11. A Dangerous Mission, 1845.

12. The Persian Beauty.

13. A Simian Dictionary.

14. Duality.

Chapter IV. 20th February 1847-1849. Under the Spell of Camoens

15. Goa and Camoens.

16. "Would you a Sufi be?"

17. Letter to Sarah Burton, 14th Nov. 1848.

18. Allahdad.

Chapter V. 1849 to 3rd April, 1853, Chiefly Boulogne

19. A Motto from Ariosto.

20. Isabel Arundell & "My Dear Louisa." 1851.

21. Forster FitzGerald Arbuthnot 1853.

Chapter VI. 3rd April 1853 to 29th October 1854, Pilgrimage to Mecca

22. The Man Wants to Wander.

23. Haji Wali, 1853.

24. The Pilgrim Ship, 6th July 1853.

25. Medina.

26. Mecca.

27. Burton's Delight in Shocking.

28. El Islam.

Chapter VII. 29th October 1854—9th February, 1855 To Harar

Bibliography: 13. Pilgrimage to Al-Madimah and Meccah. 3 vols. 1855-1856.