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[Footnote 644: See The Land of Midian Revisited, ii., 223, footnote.]

[Footnote 645: The Lusiads, Canto ii., Stanza 113.]

[Footnote 646: She impressed them on several of her friends. In each case she said, "I particularly wish you to make these facts as public as possible when I am gone."

[Footnote 647: We mean illiterate for a person who takes upon herself to write, of this even a cursory glance through her books will convince anybody.]

[Footnote 648: For example, she destroyed Sir Richard's Diaries. Portions of these should certainly have been published.]

[Footnote 649: Some of them she incorporated in her "Life" of her husband, which contains at least 60 pages of quotations from utterly worthless documents.]

[Footnote 650: I am told that it is very doubtful whether this was a bona fide offer; but Lady Burton believed it to be so.]

[Footnote 651: Romance of Isabel Lady Burton, vol. ii., p. 725.]

[Footnote 652: The Romance of Isabel Lady Burton.]

[Footnote 653: Lady Burton, owing to a faulty translation, quite mistook Nafzawi's meaning. She was thinking of the concluding verse as rendered in the 1886 edition, which runs as follows:--

"I certainly did wrong to put this book together, But you will pardon me, nor let me pray in vain; O God! award no punishment for this on judgment day! And thou, O reader, hear me conjure thee to say, So be it!"

But the 1904 and, more faithful edition puts it very differently. See

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