CHAPTER II FOOTNOTES.
[01] Fonchial Funchal.
[02] mob the mob-cap covered the hair almost entirely.
[03] cuddy dining-saloon.
[04] behave with justice and humanity to those serving under him the brutalities described by Smollett must not be taken as typical of the navy at this time as a whole. There is abundant evidence that many commanders were the idols of their men, and a private letter from Captain Latham of the Tyger, contributed by its recipient to the ‘Gentleman’s Magazine’ for 1755, shows the gallant officer to have been as full of plans and “fads” for his crew’s health and happiness as the most philanthropic captain of to-day.
[05] island of St Johanne Johanna, one of the Comoro Islands.