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90 ‘Here a round’: Quoted in Rees, A Personal Narrative of the Siege at Lucknow, p. 357.
90 ‘The old – battered’: Amy Horne, quoted in Ward, Our Bones are Scattered, p. 315.
92 ‘the Epic of’: Chaudhuri, English Historical Writings on the Indian Mutiny, p. 104.
92 ‘Not Rome, not’: Russell, My Diary in India, vol. I, p. 257.
92 ‘would surprise visitors’: Kincaid, British Social Life in India, p. 116.
93 ‘It is impossible’: Harris, A Lady’s Diary of the Siege of Lucknow, Written for the Perusal of Friends at Home, various extracts, pp. 1–86.
95 ‘The scene was’: Hibbert, The Great Mutiny, p. 341.
95 ‘Let us propose’: Ibid., p. 293.
96 ‘every tree and’: Quoted in Morris, Heaven’s Command, p. 244.
96 ‘I wish I were’: Charles Dickens to Angela Burdett-Coutts, letter reprinted in Dickens, The Letters of Charles Dickens, vol. VIII, p. 459.
96 ‘Our endeavour to’: Quoted in Dictionary of National Biography entry.
97 ‘by the time’: Quoted in Dalrymple, The Last Mughal, p. 2.
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99 ‘no coyness, no’: Quoted in Hibbert, Africa Explored, p. 36.
99 considered him a ‘brute’: Quoted in Reid, Traveller Extraordinary, p. 296.
99 ‘not a distinct’: Quoted in Boswell, The Life of Samuel Johnson, vol. III, p. 209.
101 ‘As the prime’: Part of a minute on Burton, written by Lord Salisbury to his Foreign Office officials in the Consular Department, quoted in Godsall, The Tangled Web, p. xxv.
102 ‘like a prize-fighter’: The comment was made by Frank Harris. See Harris, Contemporary Portraits, p. 180.
102 ‘look of unspeakable’: Quoted in Moorehead, The White Nile, p. 20.
102 ‘he was not’: Burton, The Lake Regions of Central Africa, vol. I, pp. xiv–xv.
105 ‘We had scarcely’: Ibid., vol. II, p. 204.
105 ‘After a few’: Ibid., p. 209.
105 ‘used to snub’: Quoted in Moorehead, The White Nile, p. 38.
106 ‘they ought to’: Quoted in ibid., p. 57.
106 ‘It was a sight’: Speke, Journal of the Discovery of the Sources of the Nile, pp. 466–7.
107 ‘Speke appeared the’: ‘Explorations in Africa’, New York Times, 2 July 1866.
107 ‘By God, he’s’: Quoted in Moorehead, The White Nile, p. 75.
108 ‘the only complete’: Quoted in MacKenzie, Popular Imperialism and the Military, p. 16.
108 ‘I am not’: Quoted in Riffenburgh, The Myth of the Explorer, p. 39.
110 ‘For God’s sake’: Robert Falcon Scott journal, Thursday 29 March, 1912, quoted in Scott, Scott’s Last Expedition, p. 432.
111 ‘In his mind’s eye’: The Zoological Gardens, Regent’s Park – A Handbook for Visitors, quoted in Jones, ‘The Sight of Creatures Strange to our Clime: London Zoo and the Consumption of the Exotic’, p. 7.
112 ‘The long lines’: Illustrated London News, 8 June 1850, quoted in Jones, ‘The Sight of Creatures Strange to our Clime: London Zoo and the Consumption of the Exotic’, p. 14.
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114 ‘introductions by a’: Smith, Through Unknown African Continents, pp. 363–4.
114 ‘It is religion’: Smith, ‘Christian Missions, Especially in the British Empire’, p. 542.
114 12,000 British missionaries: Missionary societies spent £2 million per year: see Dr Robert Carr, ‘The Evangelical Empire: Christianity’s Contribution to Victorian Colonial Expansion’, www.britishempire.co.uk.
114 ‘Confound all these’: Quoted in Pakenham, Out in the Noonday Sun, p. 102.
114 ‘They spread the’: Oliver, Sir Harry Johnston and the Scramble for Africa, p. 182.
114 ‘First the missionary’: Quoted in Pakenham, Out in the Noonday Sun, p. 94.
116 ‘by victories of’: Ogilvie, Our Empire’s Debt to Missions, p. 5.
116 ‘when excited, a’: George Seaver, David Livingstone: His Life and Letters, quoted in Dictionary of National Biography entry.
117 ‘Dr L is out’: Ibid.
117 ‘I am terribly’: ‘David Livingstone’s last letters deciphered’, Guardian, 20 July 2010.
118 ‘his death has’: British Quarterly Review 61 (1875) p. 397.
118 ‘the flag which’: E. Grose Hodge, Record, 6 May 1910, quoted in D. W. Bebbington, ‘Atonement, Sin and Empire, 1880–1914’, in Porter, ed., The Imperial Horizons