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In 1883 the Burtons removed from their eyrie near the Railway Station and took up their abode in a palazzone "the Palazzo Gosleth" situated in a large garden, on the wooded promontory that divides the city from the Bay of Muggia.
Every head was uncovered. The procession wound its way from the Palazzo Gosleth down the declivity into the city under a bright sun pouring down its full beams, and so onward through the serried masses of spectators to the cemetery. He had three church services performed over him, and 1,100 masses said for the repose of his soul."
Here, in fez and dressing-gown, Burton used to sit and write for hours with nothing to disturb him except the song of birds and the rustle of leaves. In the Palazzo Gosleth he spent the last eight years of his life, and wrote most of his later works. Perhaps this is the best place to introduce a sheaf of miscellaneous unpublished anecdotes which have been drawn together from various sources.
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