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
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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