[14] 128:9 counters. Various coins.
[15] 128:28 Bacchanalian. Revelling like the worshippers of Bacchus, the god of wine.
[16] 134:28 Zaffre. An oxide of cobalt. See dictionary.
[17] 134:28 aqua regia. Royal water—a mixture of nitric and hydrochloric acids.
[18] 134:30 regulus. An old chemical term.
[19] 135: 28 Captain Kidd. A Scottish sea captain who lived in New York in the seventeenth century.
[20] 138:19 Golconda. A town in India noted for its diamond market.
[21] 138:28 cryptographs. Secret forms of writing.
[22] 139:27 Spanish main. The northeastern portion of South America, the Caribbean Sea, and the coast of North America to the Carolinas were harassed by the Spaniards.
[23] 144:6 rationale. Reasonable basis.