[{209}] Although only the beginning of spring, the temperature rose during the day as high as 95° - 99° Fah.
[{212a}] Mundsch is the royal tutor, writer, or interpreter.
[{212b}] It is well known that saltpetre produces a considerable reduction of temperature.
[{213}] Indor lies 2,000 feet above the level of the sea.
[{225}] Monsoons are the periodical winds which blow during one-half the year from east to west, during the other half from west to east.
[{226}] The Black Town is that part of the town in which the poorer classes of inhabitants reside. That neither beauty nor cleanliness are to be sought there, is a matter of course.
[{227}] There are in all only 6,000 Parsees in the island of Bombay.
[{228}] And yet Bombay is the principal seat of the Fire-worshippers.
[{268}] This is an error: M. Botta made the first attempt to excavate the Ninevite remains at Khorsabad. Mr. Layard had, moreover, commenced his excavations before he received the countenance of the British Museum authorities. See “Nineveh—the Buried City of the East,” one of the volumes of the “National Illustrated Library,” for the rectification of this and other errors in Madame Pfeiffer’s account.
[{270}] The manuscripts of the journey through Hindostan as far as Mósul miscarried for more than a year and a half. I gave them up as lost. This was the cause of the delay in the publication of my “Journey round the world.”