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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1906 edition. Excerpt: ...the bodeful chirp of the bat, the screech of the owl. Even the old superstition that the first object seen in the morning--a crow, a cripple, &c.--determines the fortunes of the day, had his respect. ct At an hour, he comments, when the senses are most impressionable the aspect of unpleasant spectacles has a double effect. (2) He was disturbed by the drivel of dreams, and if he did not himself search for the philosopher's stone he knew many men who were so engaged (he tells us there were a hundred in London alone) and he evidently sympathised with them. Fear of man was a feeling unknown to him, and he despised it in others. Of ten men, he used to say, quoting an Osmanli proverb, nine are women.' Behind his bed hung a map of Africa, and over that a motto in Arabic which meant: All things pass. This saying he used to observe, was always a consolation to him. If he had been eager for money, it was only for what money would buy. He wanted it because it would enable him to do greater work. 4 I was often stopped, in my expeditions, ' he told Dr. Baker, ' for the want of a hundred pounds. He was always writing: in the house, in the desert, in a storm, up a tree, at dinner, in bed, ill or well, fresh or tired--indeed, he used to say that he never was tired. There was nothing histrionic about him, and he never posed, except before fools and savages. He was frank, straightforward, and outspoken, and his face was an index of his mind. Every thought was visible just as through a crystal () Life, vol. i., p. 396. (2) Note to Khalifah, Arabian Nights, Night 832. case the figured hours are seen. He was always Burton, never by any chance any one...

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