In Richard Burton—dead at Trieste after eigbt-and-sixty years of vigorous and abounding life— race has,, lost a personality unique after its kind and typical in certain ways of the great conquering and governing qualities whose exercise has made our Britain the premier empire of the world. An Irishman, with a dash of the Romany and a mingled strain of Highland Celtic and Huguenot French, he had such a measure of the genius of adventure as was present in none of his contemporaries—saving and excepting Gordon, perhaps, alone.Scots Observer.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XXVIII, Issue 8472, 24 January 1891, Page 5
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