,6 EGYrX AND THE SOUDAN. O parade or sauntering down the street, was sure to attract attention, for he was six feet four inches in height, and of a frame which gave evidence of such prodigious strength as we usually associate with the stories of Coeur de Lion, of Danish or Saxon warriors, or of "the Douglas." His energy and endurance were as remarkable as his enormous muscular power; and while he is said to have used for exercise a ponderous dumb-bell which an ordinary man could scarcely raise from the ground, his long and arduous journeys and the apparent indifference with which he encountered vicissitudes of climate that would have deterred or delayed other men, raised the admiration if not the wonder of those who read or heard of his travels, in which he was accompanied by his brave and faithful "orderly," Radford, a man even bigger and perhaps of greater muscular power than himself, but with less endurance under prolonged exertion and exposure, so that, though he rallied from the effects of a wild journey in Asia Minor, he succumbed to the privations which had to be endured when he accompanied his master to the scene of the Russo-Turkish war.

Personally Burnaby was the kind of man who is popularly regarded as the typical Englishman: of great strength, equable temper, simple unostentatious manners, and so little addicted to luxury that not only did he live with great plainness, though he of course consumed a considerable quantity of steak or joint, but he had an aversion to " an establishment," and would not put his house on the usual footing with regard to the number of servants.

In fact, the restless spirit of adventure which took the lord of the manor of Sowerby so frequently from home for months at a time made an establishment unnecessary so far as he himself was concerned, and he cared little or nothing for what is known as fashionable society. One amusing story is told of his extraordinary strength at the time soon after he had joined the Blues and when the regiment was at Windsor. A horse-dealer, who owned a pair of remarkably small ponies, had taken them to the royal town by command of the queen, that her majesty might see them, and was induced first to exhibit them to the officers of the Blues. Captain Burnaby's rooms were on the first-floor, and it was agreed that