CHAPTER XII FOOTNOTES.

[12.01] #shamsingees# probably a kind of blunderbuss fired from a stand.

[12.02] #bercundauzes# barkandaz.

[12.03] #seerpaws# apparently _siropa_--_i.e._, a robe from head to foot.

[12.04] #15 feet square# “A cube of about 18 feet” (Holwell); “18 feet long and 14 feet wide” (Cooke).

[12.05] #a good hundred and fifty# Holwell’s final calculation makes the number 146.