[259] “Pretty many,” i.e., a fair number of.

[260] The officers.

[261] Were.

[262] “Falls to the serious part,” i.e., begins to discourse on serious matters.

[263] See note, p. 28.  The Mohammedans are fatalists.  {Transcriber’s note:  The reference is to footnote 28.}

[264] A growth of osseous tissue uniting the extremities of fractured bones.

[265] Disclosed.

[266] The officers.

[267] Leading principle.

[268] Defoe means, “can burn only a few houses.”  In the next line he again misplaces “only.”

[269] Put to confusion.

[270] Left out of consideration.

[271] The distemper.

[272] A means for discovering whether the person were infected or not.

[273] Defoe’s ignorance of microscopes was not shared by Robert Hooke, whose Micrographia (published in 1664) records numerous discoveries made with that instrument.

[274] Roup is a kind of chicken’s catarrh.

[275] Them, i.e., such experiments.

[276] From the Latin quadraginta ("forty").

[277] From the Latin sexaginta ("sixty").

[278] Kinds, species.

[279] Old age.

[280] Abscesses.

[281] Himself.

[282] The essential oils of lavender, cloves, and camphor, added to acetic acid.

[283] In chemistry, balsams are vegetable juices consisting of resins mixed with gums or volatile oils.

[284] Supply “they declined coming to public worship.”

[285] This condition of affairs.

[286] Collar.

[287] Economy.

[288] Supply “they were.”

[289] Action (obsolete in this sense).  See this word as used in 2 Henry IV., act iv. sc. 4.

[290] Which.

[291] Sailors’ slang for “Archipelagoes.”

[292] An important city in Asia Minor.

[293] A city in northern Syria, better known as Iskanderoon or Alexandretta.  The town was named in honor of Alexander the Great, the Turkish form of Alexander being Iskander.

[294] Though called a kingdom, Algarve was nothing but a province of Portugal.  It is known now as Faro.

[295] The natives of Flanders, a mediaeval countship now divided among Holland, Belgium, and France.

[296] Colonies.  In the reign of Charles II., the English colonies were governed by a committee (of the Privy Council) known as the “Council of Plantations.”

[297] The east side.

[298] On the west side.

[299] See map of England for all these places.  Feversham is in Kent, forty-five miles southeast of London; Margate is on the Isle of Thanet, eighty miles southeast.

[300] Commission merchants.

[301] Privateers. Capers is a Dutch word.

[302] Supply “he.”

[303] Supply “the coals.”