1 Let out the secret.

2 Flush—i.e. level.

3 Steward and butler.

4 Sport.

5 Turban-wearing.

6 Little girl! Do you hear, sweet one?

7 Officer.

8 Look.

9 'Tis a lie, you scoundrel.

10 That is true.

11 Sea slang for sailors' chests.

12 Sleeping on deck.

13 AnglicÉ, not sober.

14 Cook's grease.

15 East Indian steward.

16 Mina-bird, or grakle, a frequent pet in homeward-bound East-Indiamen, and singular for its mimetic faculty; but impudent, and, from educational disadvantages, not particularly select in its expressions: appearance as described by the lieutenant.

17 Familiar metonymy, or nickname, at sea, for the ship's cook.

18 Five o'clock P.M.

19 It is here due to the credit of our friend the captain, who was not unusually imaginative for a sailor, to state, that this speculation, as a commercial one, is strictly and literally a fact, as the Anglo-Indian of Calcutta can probably testify. The bold and all but poetical catholicity of the idea could have been reached, perhaps, by the "progressing" American intellect alone, while Staffordshire, it is certain, furnished its realisation; the investment, it is nevertheless believed, proved eventually unprofitable.

20 Currents are designated from the direction they run towards; winds, the quarter they blow from.

21 Query—Liberator?

22 Sc.—The South African and South American campanero, or bell-bird, whose peculiar note may be heard two or three miles off, chiefly in the loneliest parts of the Brazilian or Benguela forest.

23 AnglicÉ, eating.

24 Men employed in the stowing of ship's cargoes.

25 Lascar boatswain's mate.

26 At that period the distinguishing mark of a commander, as the epaulet on the left shoulder, of a lieutenant, and the epaulet on both, of a post-captain.

27 The "Ripples"—a marine phenomenon peculiar, apparently, to the Indian Ocean.

28 Outside the harbour of Bombay.

29 The description of this peculiar phenomenon of the Indian Ocean, as given by Captain Collins, surprised us as much as the reality seems to have done him. However, on consulting a seafaring old gentleman of much experience in all parts of the world, we are informed that such an appearance is periodically to be met with for some distance between the Laccadive and Maldive Islands, as he had reason to know. The old Dutch Captain Stavorinus also furnishes an account substantially similar, having particularly attended to the cause of it in his voyage to the East Indies. It reaches also to some of the south-eastern islands at a great distance from India, near Java—or at all events appears there. In the Atlantic, Humboldt says there is a part of the sea always milky, although very deep, in about 57 degrees W. longitude, and the parallel of the island of Dominica. Of the same nature, probably, are the immense olive-green spaces and stripes seen in blue water by Captain Scoresby and others, toward the ice of the north polar regions. The pale sea alluded to is supposed either to move from the shores of Arabia Felix, and the gulfs in that coast, or, by some to arise, from sulphureous marine exhalations—appearing to rot the bottoms of vessels, and to frighten the fish. Both at the Laccadives and near Java it is seen twice a year, often with a heavy rolling of the sea and bad weather. The first time, at the new moon in June, it is called by the Dutch the "little white-water"; again, at the new moon in August, the great "white-water"; by English seamen, generally, the milk-sea, or the "blink."

30 The zodiacal light, seen at sunrise and sunset.