‘The Bashi Bazuks, commanded by General Beatson, were displaying all the violence and rapacity of their class, little, if at all, restrained by the presence of their English officers.’ Thus writes Mr John William Kaye in ‘Our Indian Heroes’ (_Good Words_, June, 1851), for the greater glorification of a certain General Neill, whose principal act of heroism was to arrest a ‘Jack-in-Office Station Master.’ Mr Kaye is essentially an official writer, but even official inspiration should not be allowed directly to misstate fact. ----- Footnote 1: Mr Frere’s memory is unusually short. I intrusted the MS. to the Eurasian apothecary of the Zanzibar Consulate, and I suspected (Lake Regions of Central Africa, vol. i. chap. i.) that it had come to an untimely end. The white population at Zanzibar had in those days a great horror of publication, and thus is easily explained how a parcel legibly addressed to the Royal Geographical Society had the honour of passing eight years in the strong box of the ‘Bombay Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society.’ Footnote 2: Georg. lib. i. ix. The concluding words are ὧν ἐστι τὸ τῶν Ῥαπτῶν ἀκροτήριον ὀλιγῴ νοτιώτερον. There is no reason why Bilibaldus Pirkimerus (Bilibaldi Pirckeymher), Lugd. 1535, should render it, ‘quibus _Rhaptum promontorium_ paululum est Australius.’ Footnote 3: When the Portuguese counselled the Abyssinians to wall their settlements against the Gallas, the former replied like Spartans, ‘No; we keep stones to build churches and temples, but we defend our country with our arms and hands!’ The Coptic ‘Nob’ signifies gold (Ritter Erdkunde, French translation, 142), the Camoensian ‘Noba’ is therefore more correct than our modern Nubia, which we find in the monk Burchard (A.D. 1250), ‘Æthiopia quæ hodie Nubia dicitur.’ De Barros (1. iii. xii.) prefers ‘a gente dos Nobis.’ I have been tempted to add a stanza which is _not_ translated from Camoens. 95 (_a_) ‘And see the twain from Albion’s chalky shore go forth th’ Egyptian mystic veil to rend: the farthest font of Nilus they explore, those mighty waters whence the rivers trend, then, O dire Chance! O Fortune hard and sore! of all their fatal labours view the end— that lies self-victimed in his natal land, this lives afar on friendless foreign strand.’ Footnote 4: The losses of the Somali expedition (not including those of the Arab and Somali attendants) were as follows:—