[163b] Liverpool.

[164] Chester.

[165] See ‘Lavengro,’ i. 399; ii. 57.

[166] See Introduction.

[168] Sir James Brooke, Rajah of Sarawah, Borrow’s old school-fellow at Norwich (1816-1818).

[182a] Probably meant for ‘gypsydom,’ but properly old cant for ‘London.’ Rome is here Shelta, or Gaelic back-slang for mor, ‘great.’

[182b] ‘The girl she is black,
She lies on her back.’

which looks like a translation of some English ditty.

[183] Sham sailors (old cant).

[189] Fair, straightforward (dialect).