Travellers, like poets, are mostly an angry race: by falling into a d… — Richard Francis Burton

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 BurtonExplorer · English · 1821 – 1890

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