[12] Sleeping on deck.
[13] Anglicé, not sober.
[14] Cook's grease.
[15] East Indian steward.
[16] Mina-bird, or grakle, a frequent pet in homeward-bound East-Indiamen, and singular for its mimetic faculty; but impudent, and, from educational disadvantages, not particularly select in its expressions: appearance as described by the lieutenant.
[17] Familiar metonymy, or nickname, at sea, for the ship's cook.
[18] Five o'clock P.M.
[19] It is here due to the credit of our friend the captain, who was not unusually imaginative for a sailor, to state, that this speculation, as a commercial one, is strictly and literally a fact, as the Anglo-Indian of Calcutta can probably testify. The bold and all but poetical catholicity of the idea could have been reached, perhaps, by the "progressing" American intellect alone, while Staffordshire, it is certain, furnished its realisation; the investment, it is nevertheless believed, proved eventually unprofitable.
[20] Currents are designated from the direction they run towards; winds, the quarter they blow from.
[21] Query—Liberator?