[Note 1: Like a pig for truffles. See the Epilogue to Browning's Pacchiarotto etc., Stanza XVIII:—"Your product is—truffles, you hunt with a pig!">[
[Note 2: The Malabar coast. A part of India.]
[Note 3: Jacobite. After James II was driven from the throne in 1688, his supporters and those of his descendants were called Jacobites. Jacobus is the Latin for James.]
[Note 4: John Rann or Jerry Abershaw. John Rann I cannot find. Louis Jeremiah (or Jerry) Abershaw was a highway robber, who infested the roads near London; he was hung in 1795, when scarcely over twenty-one years old.]
[Note 5: "Great North road." The road that runs on the east of England up to Edinburgh. Stevenson yielded to the charm that these words had for him, for he began a romance with the title, The Great North Road, which however, he never finished. It was published as a fragment in The Illustrated London News, in 1895.]
[Note 6: What will he Do with It? One of Bulwer-Lytton's novels, published in 1858.]
[Note 7: Since traced by many obliging correspondents to the gallery of Charles Kingsley.]
[Note 8: Conduct is three parts of life. In Literature and Dogma (1873) Matthew Arnold asserted with great emphasis, that conduct was three-fourths of life.]
[Note 9: The sight of a pleasant arbour. Possibly a reminiscence of the arbour in Pilgrim's Progress, where Christian fell asleep, and lost his roll. "Now about the midway to the top of the hill was a pleasant arbour.">[
[Note 10: "Miching mallecho." Hamlet's description of the meaning of the Dumb Show in the play-scene, Act III, Sc. 2. "Hidden treachery"—see any annotated edition of Hamlet.]