Word: triesteâ
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Dates: during 1931-1931
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...spoke of him as "ruffian Dick" and "that blackguard Burton," but nobody ever called him a coward or a bore. The East India Company was glad to get rid of such an embarrassingly spectacular servant. Her Majesty's Government grudgingly gave him poor, unimportant consular posts?Fernando Po, Damascus, Trieste???afraid of what he would do. In his last post (Trieste) the aging adventurer made his only lucky strike?a translation of the "Arabian Nights," The Thousand Nights & A Night, which brought...
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