I was surrounded at the time by about a dozen of the enemy, whose clubs rattled upon me without mercy, and the strokes of my sabre were rendered uncertain by the energetic pushes of an attendant who thus hoped to save me.
-- Richard Francis Burton
   
Richard Francis Burton   Name:
Richard Francis Burton
Type:
Explorer
Nationality:
English
Birth:
March 19, 1821
Death:
October 19, 1890
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