SIR RICHARD

FRANCIS, | cor ®. in Hertfordshire, 1821, d. 1890; ajas famous explorer and brilliant orient a] | Tw scholar. He went disguised as a pilgrim | Ne to Mecca, explored Soma lil and, and in} res 1856 discovered Lake Tanganyika. His| |] Writings are numerous, and include, | of besides accounts of his travels, transla-jat fiona of the “‘ Arabian Nizhts” and of} by the “* Losiad” of Camoens, the Portuguese | cal — PaURToN int ~ON- [s. 86]