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Type: Explorer Quotes Category: English Explorer Quotes Date of Birth: March 19, 1821 Date of Death: October 19, 1890 Nationality: English Find on Amazon: Richard Francis Burton Related Authors: Will Adams Hudson Stuck William Dampier Henry Hudson James Theodore Bent George Vancouver William Adams |
Between 2 and 3 in the morning of the 19th inst. I was aroused by the cry that the enemy was upon us.
Richard Francis Burton I was surrounded at the time by about a dozen of the enemy, whose clubs rattled upon me without mercy, and the strokes of my sabre were rendered uncertain by the energetic pushes of an attendant who thus hoped to save me. Richard Francis Burton One death to a man is a serious thing: a dozen neutralize one another. Richard Francis Burton Support a compatriot against a native, however the former may blunder or plunder. Richard Francis Burton Travellers, like poets, are mostly an angry race: by falling into a daily fit of passion, I proved to the governor and his son, who were profuse in their attentions, that I was in earnest. Richard Francis Burton Wherever we halted we were surrounded by wandering troops of Bedouins. Richard Francis Burton |
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