CONCLUSION.
APPENDIX I
§1. THE ASHANTI SCARE.
§2. THE LABOUR-QUESTION IN WESTERN AFRICA.
§3. GOLD-DIGGING IN NORTH-WESTERN AFRICA.
APPENDIX II. — PART I. — LIST OF BIRDS COLLECTED BY CAPTAIN
INDEX.
VIKRAM AND THE VAMPIRE
By Sir Richard F. Burton
Edited by his Wife Isabel Burton
CONTENTS
PREFACE
PREFACE TO THE FIRST (1870) EDITION.
INTRODUCTION
VIKRAM AND THE VAMPIRE
THE VAMPIRE’S FIRST STORY In which a man deceives a woman.
THE VAMPIRE’S SECOND STORY Of the Relative Villany of Men and Women.
THE VAMPIRE’S THIRD STORY Of a High-minded Family.
THE VAMPIRE’S FOURTH STORY Of A Woman Who Told The Truth.
THE VAMPIRE’S FIFTH STORY Of the Thief Who Laughed and Wept.
THE VAMPIRE’S SIXTH STORY In Which Three Men Dispute about a Woman.
THE VAMPIRE’S SEVENTH STORY Showing the Exceeding Folly of Many Wise Fools.
THE VAMPIRE’S EIGHTH STORY Of the Use and Misuse of Magic Pills.
THE VAMPIRE’S NINTH STORY Showing That a Man’s Wife Belongs Not to His Body but to His Head.
THE VAMPIRE’S TENTH STORY [168] Of the Marvellous Delicacy of Three Queens.
THE VAMPIRE’S ELEVENTH STORY Which Puzzles Raja Vikram.
FOOTNOTES
VIKRAM AND THE VAMPIRE, OR TALES OF HINDU DEVILRY
ILLUSTRATED
Adapted By Richard F. Burton, F.R.G.S. &c.
CONTENTS.
Transcriber's note
Table of Contents
List of Illustrations
PAGE
INTRODUCTION. 1
THE VAMPIRE'S FIRST STORY.
IN WHICH A MAN DECEIVES A WOMAN. 54
THE VAMPIRE'S SECOND STORY.
OF THE RELATIVE VILLANY OF MEN AND WOMEN. 97
THE VAMPIRE'S THIRD STORY.
OF A HIGH-MINDED FAMILY. 140
THE VAMPIRE'S FOURTH STORY.
OF A WOMAN WHO TOLD THE TRUTH. 156
THE VAMPIRE'S FIFTH STORY.
OF THE THIEF WHO LAUGHED AND WEPT. 167
[Pg xxii]THE VAMPIRE'S SIXTH STORY.
IN WHICH THREE MEN DISPUTE ABOUT A WOMAN. 190
THE VAMPIRE'S SEVENTH STORY.
SHOWING THE EXCEEDING FOLLY OF MANY WISE FOOLS. 209
THE VAMPIRE'S EIGHTH STORY.
OF THE USE AND MISUSE OF MAGIC PILLS. 238
THE VAMPIRE'S NINTH STORY.
SHOWING THAT A MAN'S WIFE BELONGS NOT TO HIS BODY BUT TO HIS HEAD. 267
THE VAMPIRE'S TENTH STORY.
OF THE MARVELLOUS DELICACY OF THREE QUEENS. 285
THE VAMPIRE'S ELEVENTH STORY.
WHICH PUZZLES RAJA VIKRAM. 290
CONCLUSION. 307
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.
DURING THE THREE HOURS OF RETURN HARDLY A WORD PASSED BETWEEN THE PAIR. Frontispiece
HE WAS PLAYING UPON A HUMAN SKULL WITH TWO SHANK BONES. p. 43
HE ONCE MORE SEIZED THE BAITAL'S HAIR. 48
WENT UP TO HER WITH POLITE SALUTATIONS. To face 65
HAVING SAID THIS, HE THREW ONE OF THE SWEETMEATS TO THE DOG. To face 85
MOUNTING THEIR HORSES, FOLLOWED THE PARTY. 93
HE DISMISSED THE PALANQUIN-BEARERS. 117
HE SET OUT ALONE WITH HIS ILL-GOTTEN WEALTH. To face 118
THE KING, PUFFING WITH FURY, FOLLOWED HIM AT THE TOP OF HIS SPEED, AND CAUGHT HIM BY HIS TAIL. To face 139
IN THE MEANTIME A TRAVELLER, A RAJPUT, BY NAME BIRBAL. 143
THE BAITAL DISAPPEARED THROUGH THE DARKNESS. To face 165
AS, HOWEVER, HE PASSED THROUGH A BACK STREET. To face 170
AFTER A FEW MINUTES THE SIGNAL WAS ANSWERED. 173
THE TWO THEN RAISED, BY THEIR UNITED EFFORTS, A HEAVY TRAP-DOOR. To face 174
[Pg xxiv]TREADING WITH THE FOOT OF A TIGER-CAT. 177
THE KING WAS CUNNING AT FENCE, AND SO WAS THE THIEF. To face 179
PRESENTLY THE DEMON WAS TRUSSED UP AS USUAL. 188
BAMAN, THE SECOND SUITOR, TIED UP A BUNDLE AND FOLLOWED. 198
MEANWHILE MADHUSADAN, THE THIRD, BECAME A JOGI. 199
THE HOUSEHOLDER'S WIFE CAME TO SERVE UP THE FOOD, RICE AND SPLIT PEAS. To face 203
MADHUSADAN PROCEEDED TO MAKE HIS INCANTATIONS, DESPITE TERRIBLE SIGHTS IN THE AIR. To face 205
VIKRAM PLACED HIS BUNDLE UPON THE GROUND, AND SEATED HIMSELF CROSS-LEGGED BEFORE IT. To face 207
THEY TRIED TO LIVE WITHOUT A MONTHLY ALLOWANCE, AND NOTABLY THEY FAILED. 223
AN EDIFYING SPECTACLE, INDEED, FOR THE WORLD TO SEE: A CROSS OLD MAN SITTING AMONGST HIS GALLIPOTS AND CRUCIBLES. To face 228
THE BONE THEREUPON STOOD UPRIGHT, AND HOPPED ABOUT. 230
THEY PREPARED FOR THEIR TASK. 234
WITH A ROAR LIKE THUNDER. To face 235
BUT THEIR EYES HAD MET. 241
AS THEY EMERGED UPON THE PLAIN, THEY WERE ATTACKED BY THE KIRATAS. To face 277
THEN A HORRID THOUGHT FLASHED ACROSS HER MIND; SHE PERCEIVED HER FATAL MISTAKE. To face 279
THERE HE FOUND THE JOGI. 310
AS HE BENT HIM DOWN TO SALUTE THE GODDESS. 317
TAILPIECE. 319
THE KAMA SUTRA OF VATSYAYANA
Translated From The Sanscrit
In Seven Parts
PART I. CHAPTER I.
BEING THE INDEX TO OR CONTENTS OF THE WORK.
Chapter II. Observations on the three worldly attainments of Virtue, Wealth and Love.
" III. On the study of the Sixty-four Arts.
" IV. On the Arrangements of a House, and Household Furniture; and about the Daily Life of a Citizen, his Companions, Amusements, &c.
" V. About classes of Women fit and unfit for Congress with the Citizen, and of Friends, and Messengers.
PART II. -- ON SEXUAL UNION
Chapter I. Kinds of Union according to Dimensions, Force of Desire, and Time; and on the different kinds of Love.
" II. Of the Embrace.
" III. On Kissing.
" IV. On Pressing or Marking with the Nails.
" V. On Biting, and the ways of Love to be employed with regard to Women of different countries.
" VI. On the various ways of Lying Down, and the different kinds of Congress.
" VII. On the various ways of Striking, and of the Sounds appropriate to them.
" VIII. About females acting the part of Males.
" IX. On holding the Lingam in the Mouth.
" X. How to begin and how to end the Congress. Different kinds of Congress, and Love Quarrels.
PART III. -- ABOUT THE ACQUISITION OF A WIFE.
Chapter I. Observations on Betrothal and Marriage.
" II. About creating Confidence in the Girl.
" III. Courtship, and the manifestations of the feelings by outward signs and deeds.
" IV. On things to be done only by the Man, and the acquisition of the Girl thereby. Also what to be done by a Girl to gain over a Man and subject him to her.
" V. On the different Forms of Marriage.
PART IV. -- ABOUT A WIFE.
Chapter I. On the manner of living of a virtuous Woman, and of her behaviour during the absence of her Husband.
" II. On the conduct of the eldest Wife towards the other Wives of her husband, and of the younger Wife towards the elder ones. Also on the conduct of a Virgin Widow re-married; of a Wife disliked by her Husband; of the Women in the King's Harem; and of a Husband who has more than one Wife.
PART V. -- ABOUT THE WIVES OF OTHER PEOPLE
Chapter I. On the Characteristics of Men and Women, and the reason why Women reject the Addresses of Men. About Men who have Success with Women, and about Women who are easily gained over.
" II. About making Acquaintance with the Woman, and of the efforts to gain her over.
" III. Examination of the State of a Woman's mind.
" IV. The business of a Go-between.
" V. On the Love of Persons in authority with the Wives of other People.
" VI. About the Women of the Royal Harem, and of the keeping of one's own Wife.
PART VI. --ABOUT COURTESANS
Chapter I. On the Characteristics of Men and Women, and the reason why Women reject the Addresses of Men. About Men who have Success with Women, and about Women who are easily gained over.
" II. Of a Courtesan living with a Man as his Wife.
" III. Of the means of getting Money; of the Signs of a Lover who is beginning to be weary, and of the way to get rid of him.
" IV. About a Re-union with a former Lover.
" V. Of different kinds of Gain.
" VI. Of Gains and Losses, attendant Gains and Losses, and Doubts; and lastly, the different kinds of Courtesans.
PART VII. -- ON THE MEANS OF ATTRACTING OTHERS TO ONE'S SELF.
Chapter I. On Personal Adornment, subjugating the hearts of others, and of tonic medicines.
" II. Of the Means of exciting Desire, and of the ways of enlarging the Lingam. Miscellaneous Experiments and Receipts.