[194] A small sail set high upon the mast.
[195] "Fetched a long compass," i.e., went by a circuitous route.
[196] The officers.
[197] Refused.
[198] Nearly twenty miles northeast of London.
[199] He. This pleonastic use of a conjunction with the relative is common among illiterate writers and speakers to-day.
[200] Waltham and Epping, towns two or three miles apart, at a distance of ten or twelve miles almost directly north of London.
[201] Pollard trees are trees cut back nearly to the trunk, and so caused to grow into a thick head (poll) of branches.
[202] Entertainment. In this sense, the plural, "quarters," is the commoner form.
[203] Preparing.