"Human Sacrifice among the Sephardine or Eastern Jews"
Sir Richard F. Burton was captain in the Bombay Army; co-discoverer of the source of the White Nile with John Hanning Speke; British consul on the island of Fernando Po off the coast of Equatorial Guinea; at Damascus, Syria; at Trieste, Austria-Hungary and at Santos, Brazil. He was one of the most important linguists of his day, giving a well-received direct-from-Arabic English translation of the Arabian Nights in 16 volumes; original translator of the Kama Sutra; expert swordsman; knighthood (1886) and a hundred other accomplishments, truly a 19th-Century Western Man in the best sense of the term. But then the 20th-Century came along, with its Stalinist "PC" cleansing of old works of history, which attempted to obliterate what [is presented here.]
"Human Sacrifice among the Sephardine or Eastern Jews"
by Sir Richard F. Burton
Preface by editor W. H. Wilkins with Contents. [ HTML version ]
I. The Jew:
Chap. I. GENERAL OPINION OF THE JEW [ HTML version ]
Chap. II. OPINION OF THE JEW IN ENGLAND [ HTML version ]
Chap. III. THE JEW OF THE HOLY LAND AND HIS DESTINY [ HTML version ]
Chap. IV. THE JEW AND THE TALMUD [ HTML version ]
Chap. V. THE CONTINUITY OF TRADITION IN THE EAST [ HTML version ] [ Facsimiles in PDF ]
III. El Islam. [ HTML version ]
Index. [ HTML version ]
"To the Reader" introduction, wherein Burton states: "The statements contained in these pages must, if untrue to fact, be speedily buried in the limbo of vagaries and dreams. If true, they open up an unknown chapter of Modern History which deserves careful perusal"
I'm afraid the proverbial "cat" is long "out of the bag"; continued suppression of the Burton MS. would serve no useful purpose. We already know most of the details from other sources, and we know Burton's conclusion regarding the case (see The Jew, p. 128), and the fact that he was "canned" by the British establishment simply for dealing with the Jewish problem in an objective manner during the course of his consulship in Damascus (he had refused to show preferential treatment by collecting their debts; this echoes the sentiment of Cochelet to Thiers shown in red in the 5/15/1840 correspondence within "DOCUMENTS" above: "It appears to me that it is not the jurisdiction of an employee of a Great Foreign Government to appoint himself as defender of the murderers of a clergyman protected by the French Government..."). A strong hint is contained on pp. 80-81, starting with "Rabbinical religion is rampant in the kitchen" -- he concludes this with "On the eve of the Passover the chief Scribe attends the oven, and mixes what he pleases with the cakes, which are then sent round to the congregation."
