[2] Pound: nearly five dollars.
[3] Levant: the point where the sun rises. The countries about the eastern part of the Mediterranean Sea and its adjoining waters.
[4] Mrs.: it was formerly the custom to call unmarried women Mrs.
[5] The South Sea: the Pacific Ocean.
[6] Van Diemen's Land: N.W. from Van Diemen's Land (Tasmania) and in latitude 30 degrees 2 minutes would be in Australia or off the West Coast
[7] Cable's length: about six hundred or seven hundred feet.
[8] Buff jerkin a leather jacket or waistcoat.
[9] Small: weak, thin.
[10] Signet-royal: the king's seal.
[11] Half-pike a short wooden staff, upon one end of which was a steel head.