1
The roc, a gigantic bird, which figures in the Eastern fable of Sinbad the Sailor.
2
A rich, quaint, walled-up doorway, in semi-Monastic, semi-Byzantine style, still extant in the Corte del Sabbrin, or Corta Sabbonicia, is nearly all that remains of the house of Messer Marco Palo.
3
A summary of the Russian explorations of the Pamir, by Sievertzof, has been published in Kettler’s “Zeitschrift für wissenschaftliche Geographie.”
4
Cuir-bouilli, leather softened by boiling, during which process it took any form or impression required, and afterwards hardened.
5
Probably malachite, or carbonate of copper.
6
The Hon. Robert Lindsay writes: – “At night each man lights a fire at his post, and furnishes himself with a dozen joints of the large bamboo, one of which he occasionally throws into the fire, and the air it contains being rarefied by the heat, it explodes with a report as loud as a musket.” – “Lives of the Lindsays,” iii. 191.
7
G. F. Ruxton, “Adventures in Mexico and the Rocky Mountains.” London, 1861.