[1] A huge oyster about three feet square and weighing twenty pounds, which is said to have existed at that time (about one thousand years ago), but is now extinct. [↑]
[3] A Chinese mushroom which grows in the forests. It is very rare and much larger than the ordinary variety. [↑]
[4] Yot, yee, sarm are Canton dialect words for one, two, three. [↑]