CHAPTER XXV
. — RETURN TO AXIM AND DEPARTURE FOR EUROPE.
CONCLUSION. APPENDIX I §1. THE ASHANTI SCARE. §2. THE LABOUR-QUESTION IN WESTERN AFRICA. §3. GOLD-DIGGING IN NORTH-WESTERN AFRICA. APPENDIX II. — PART I. — LIST OF BIRDS COLLECTED BY CAPTAIN INDEX.
VIKRAM AND THE VAMPIRE By Sir Richard F. Burton Edited by his Wife Isabel Burton
CONTENTS PREFACE PREFACE TO THE FIRST (1870) EDITION. INTRODUCTION VIKRAM AND THE VAMPIRE THE VAMPIRE’S FIRST STORY In which a man deceives a woman. THE VAMPIRE’S SECOND STORY Of the Relative Villany of Men and Women. THE VAMPIRE’S THIRD STORY Of a High-minded Family. THE VAMPIRE’S FOURTH STORY Of A Woman Who Told The Truth. THE VAMPIRE’S FIFTH STORY Of the Thief Who Laughed and Wept. THE VAMPIRE’S SIXTH STORY In Which Three Men Dispute about a Woman. THE VAMPIRE’S SEVENTH STORY Showing the Exceeding Folly of Many Wise Fools. THE VAMPIRE’S EIGHTH STORY Of the Use and Misuse of Magic Pills. THE VAMPIRE’S NINTH STORY Showing That a Man’s Wife Belongs Not to His Body but to His Head. THE VAMPIRE’S TENTH STORY [168] Of the Marvellous Delicacy of Three Queens. THE VAMPIRE’S ELEVENTH STORY Which Puzzles Raja Vikram. FOOTNOTES
VIKRAM AND THE VAMPIRE, OR TALES OF HINDU DEVILRY ILLUSTRATED Adapted By Richard F. Burton, F.R.G.S. &c.
CONTENTS. Transcriber's note Table of Contents List of Illustrations
PAGE INTRODUCTION. 1 THE VAMPIRE'S FIRST STORY. IN WHICH A MAN DECEIVES A WOMAN. 54 THE VAMPIRE'S SECOND STORY. OF THE RELATIVE VILLANY OF MEN AND WOMEN. 97 THE VAMPIRE'S THIRD STORY. OF A HIGH-MINDED FAMILY. 140 THE VAMPIRE'S FOURTH STORY. OF A WOMAN WHO TOLD THE TRUTH. 156 THE VAMPIRE'S FIFTH STORY. OF THE THIEF WHO LAUGHED AND WEPT. 167 [Pg xxii]THE VAMPIRE'S SIXTH STORY. IN WHICH THREE MEN DISPUTE ABOUT A WOMAN. 190 THE VAMPIRE'S SEVENTH STORY. SHOWING THE EXCEEDING FOLLY OF MANY WISE FOOLS. 209 THE VAMPIRE'S EIGHTH STORY. OF THE USE AND MISUSE OF MAGIC PILLS. 238 THE VAMPIRE'S NINTH STORY. SHOWING THAT A MAN'S WIFE BELONGS NOT TO HIS BODY BUT TO HIS HEAD. 267 THE VAMPIRE'S TENTH STORY. OF THE MARVELLOUS DELICACY OF THREE QUEENS. 285 THE VAMPIRE'S ELEVENTH STORY. WHICH PUZZLES RAJA VIKRAM. 290 CONCLUSION. 307
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS. DURING THE THREE HOURS OF RETURN HARDLY A WORD PASSED BETWEEN THE PAIR. Frontispiece HE WAS PLAYING UPON A HUMAN SKULL WITH TWO SHANK BONES. p. 43 HE ONCE MORE SEIZED THE BAITAL'S HAIR. 48 WENT UP TO HER WITH POLITE SALUTATIONS. To face 65 HAVING SAID THIS, HE THREW ONE OF THE SWEETMEATS TO THE DOG. To face 85 MOUNTING THEIR HORSES, FOLLOWED THE PARTY. 93 HE DISMISSED THE PALANQUIN-BEARERS. 117 HE SET OUT ALONE WITH HIS ILL-GOTTEN WEALTH. To face 118 THE KING, PUFFING WITH FURY, FOLLOWED HIM AT THE TOP OF HIS SPEED, AND CAUGHT HIM BY HIS TAIL. To face 139 IN THE MEANTIME A TRAVELLER, A RAJPUT, BY NAME BIRBAL. 143 THE BAITAL DISAPPEARED THROUGH THE DARKNESS. To face 165 AS, HOWEVER, HE PASSED THROUGH A BACK STREET. To face 170 AFTER A FEW MINUTES THE SIGNAL WAS ANSWERED. 173 THE TWO THEN RAISED, BY THEIR UNITED EFFORTS, A HEAVY TRAP-DOOR. To face 174 [Pg xxiv]TREADING WITH THE FOOT OF A TIGER-CAT. 177 THE KING WAS CUNNING AT FENCE, AND SO WAS THE THIEF. To face 179 PRESENTLY THE DEMON WAS TRUSSED UP AS USUAL. 188 BAMAN, THE SECOND SUITOR, TIED UP A BUNDLE AND FOLLOWED. 198 MEANWHILE MADHUSADAN, THE THIRD, BECAME A JOGI. 199 THE HOUSEHOLDER'S WIFE CAME TO SERVE UP THE FOOD, RICE AND SPLIT PEAS. To face 203 MADHUSADAN PROCEEDED TO MAKE HIS INCANTATIONS, DESPITE TERRIBLE SIGHTS IN THE AIR. To face 205 VIKRAM PLACED HIS BUNDLE UPON THE GROUND, AND SEATED HIMSELF CROSS-LEGGED BEFORE IT. To face 207 THEY TRIED TO LIVE WITHOUT A MONTHLY ALLOWANCE, AND NOTABLY THEY FAILED. 223 AN EDIFYING SPECTACLE, INDEED, FOR THE WORLD TO SEE: A CROSS OLD MAN SITTING AMONGST HIS GALLIPOTS AND CRUCIBLES. To face 228 THE BONE THEREUPON STOOD UPRIGHT, AND HOPPED ABOUT. 230 THEY PREPARED FOR THEIR TASK. 234 WITH A ROAR LIKE THUNDER. To face 235 BUT THEIR EYES HAD MET. 241 AS THEY EMERGED UPON THE PLAIN, THEY WERE ATTACKED BY THE KIRATAS. To face 277 THEN A HORRID THOUGHT FLASHED ACROSS HER MIND; SHE PERCEIVED HER FATAL MISTAKE. To face 279 THERE HE FOUND THE JOGI. 310 AS HE BENT HIM DOWN TO SALUTE THE GODDESS. 317 TAILPIECE. 319
THE KAMA SUTRA OF VATSYAYANA Translated From The Sanscrit In Seven Parts
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