

BURTON, SIR RICHARD FRANCIS. 



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ants Herne and Stroyan. They were attacked and native Syrians roused the hatred of Turk- 

 by natives, and Burton and Speke were badly ish officials and Greek bishops, and Damascus 

 wounded and Herne was killed. On his recov- was reduced to a vice-consulate, and Burton 

 ery Burton was ordered to the Crimea, where was recalled in 1871 But in the mean time 

 the war between Russia and the European allies he had visited the Libanus, the Tulul el Safa, 

 .~:_ tr~ mna v,^* * of n ff , /! T_4- the Antj-Libanus, the northern Libanus and 



the Alah. 



An expedition to Iceland occupied the next 

 year, after returning from which he was ap- 



was raging, tie was chief of staff to Gen. Beat- 

 son and principal organizer of the irregular 

 ivalry. At Lord Palmerston's order he was 

 Hit to raise a large body of Kurdish horse- 

 when peace was proclaimed. 

 ? then returned to his project of making a 

 lore extended exploration of Central Africa. 

 Ie organized a party in 1856, and set out in 

 >mpany with Capt. Speke. In February, 1858. 

 3 penetrated as far as Ujiji, and discovered 

 jake Tanganyika, at the very point where, in 

 r, Stanley found Livingstone. It was Bur- 

 m's work in what was then the " Dark Conti- 

 snt " indeed, that opened the way for the dis- 

 >veries of the great lakes Albert and Victoria 

 fyanza. The expedition was absent three years, 

 ind its results are embodied in volumes pub- 

 lished after the return. In 1860 Burton came to 

 United States, visiting, during a journey of 

 5.000 miles, Salt Lake City and California. In 

 he severed his connection with the British 

 r, and Earl Russell sent him as consul to 

 Fernando Po. Among the expeditions fitted out 

 lere was one in which he sailed up the Congo, 

 ~dng canoes at Borna, 'landing at Banza Nok- 

 d, and marching up to Nkulu, where lack of 

 ins to pay the native chiefs for guides com- 

 piled him to give up further progress. But he 

 discovered the great cataracts, or rapids, 

 illed the Yellala. He also climbed the Elephant 

 lountains, and explored the chain of lagoons 

 stween the Lagos and Volta rivers. All 

 )f which he afterward described minutely 

 >y word and picture 4 , and he paved the 



Y for the present Congo Free State, 

 ic future site of which he then de- 

 iribed. He also explored thoroughly 

 >m Bathurst, on the Gambia, to 

 in Paulo de Loanda, in Angola ; 

 asited Abbeokuta, and ascended 

 le Cameroon mountains. He 

 rent among the cannibal 

 [epangwe, the Tans of Du 

 'iaillu,and to Benin City, 



finch had been un visited by white men since the 

 explorer Belzoni lost his life there in 1823. His 

 jxt mission was the dangerous one of visiting, at 

 the instance of the Government, Gelele, King of 

 ihomey, to persuade him to abandon his " cus- 

 >ms." Capt. Burton was then transferred to 

 department of San Paulo, Brazil, where he 

 imained four years. He visited the diamond 

 id gold mines of Minas-Geraes, went down 

 1,500 miles of San Francisco river, visited the 

 irgentine Republic, and traversed the Paraguay 



d La Plata rivers, to report to the Foreign pointed consul at Trieste, which post he held 

 )ffice the state of the Paraguayan war. Crossing ~- i:i t --~ J --<-- T.. 10* u :.,.*.-. j .'j: j 

 'ie pampas and the Andes mountains, he vis- 

 Chili and Peru. He returned to London 



)y way of the Straits of Magellan, Buenos sisted of 8 Europeans, 3 Egyptian officers of the 

 4 yres, and Rio de Janeiro to find, on reaching staff and 2 of the line, 25 soldiers and 30 miners, 



SIR RICHARD FRANCIS BURTON DISGUISED AS A SHEIK. 



until his death. In 1876 he visited Midian, and 

 a year later he organized a company for its 

 more thorough exploration. His caravan con- 



wme, that he had been appointed consul at 

 3iis. This post, so congenial to him from 

 lis familiarity with and fondness for Oriental 

 3h and people, he was permitted to hold but 



10 mules, and 100 camels. After four months of 

 hard travel and search they returned with the 

 loss of but one man, a soldier who died of fever, 

 bringing 25 tons of geological specimens, 6 cases 



ree years, as his sympathy with the Arabs of Colorado and negro ore, and 5 cases of eth- 



