58-2: Flojillo es: it (the cigar) is pretty thin.
58-3: Gérgal: town of southern Spain, near Almería.
58-4: un polaco: many Poles served under Napoleon. It was expected that he would restore Poland to a place among the nations. It had been partitioned between Russia, Austria, and Germany in the latter part of the eighteenth century.
58-5: año 23: cf. p. 51 and note on Fernando VII, p. 51, 7.
58-6: Estará apuntado: cf. note no habría andado, p. 8, 6.