[1]. The arms of the City of London supported by Griffins or Wyverns.
[2]. Milton speaks of the Gryphon as a “guardian of gold,” but that can clearly have no connection with our animal, whose propensities in respect to the precious metals are quite of an opposite tendency.
[3]. Cant term for residents in the Bengal Presidency—“Qui Hye,” “who wait,” being constantly addressed to servants.
[4]. Mulls—cant term for Madrassees.
[5]. Crannies—Portuguese and country-born clerks in offices, and fillers of subordinate Government employments, &c.
[6]. Ticca, i.e. hired.
[7]. Honest Sancho Panza divides the world into two grand classes—the have-somethings and the have-nothings. Blacky, by an equally comprehensive arrangement, includes all mankind under the heads of Topee Wala and Puckree Bund, or hat-men and turban-wearers.
[8]. 6 bottles real Cognac, 1 pine cheese, 2 pot raspberry jam, 2 bag of shot.
[9]. Village-curs, appertaining to no one in particular.