[644]. Cf. “An Apology for the Character and Conduct of Shylock,” in a volume of Essays published by a Society of Gentlemen in Exeter (1796), pp. 552–573.

[645]. This incident shews that the story belongs to the Grateful Beasts’ class, though it is not said that Tiomberombi had conferred any benefit on the rats; it is only implied that he understood their language.

[646]. Veckenstedt, Mythen, Sagen und Legenden der Zamaiten, i. pp. 163–166.

TRANSCRIBER’S NOTES

  1. P. [512], changed “the wolf and the fox” to “the wolf and the mouse”.
  2. Silently corrected typographical errors and variations in spelling.
  3. Retained archaic, non-standard, and uncertain spellings as printed.
  4. Footnotes have been re-indexed using numbers and collected together at the end of the last chapter.