[3] 100:4 Huguenot. French Protestants, many of whom settled in South Carolina. [4] 100: 18 Fort Moultrie. Erected in. 1776. Defended against the British by Colonel William Moultrie. [5] 101:23 Swammerdam. A famous Dutch naturalist (1637-1680). [6] 101:25 manumitted. Freed from slavery. [7] 102:27 scarabaeus. The Latin for beetle. [8] 103:15 antennae. The feelers. [9] 105:8 scarabaeus caput hominis. Man's-head beetle. [10] 107:20 noovers. Manoeuvres. [11] 109:10 brusquerie. Lack of cordiality. [12] 110:26 empressement. Demonstrativeness. [13] 123:20 curvets and caracoles. Leaping and prancing of a horse. [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. [24] 149:19 insignium. Sign. COLLATERAL READINGS _The Murders in the Rue Morgue_, Edgar Allan Poe. _The Mystery of Marie Rogêt_, Edgar Allan Poe. _The Purloined Letter_, Edgar Allan Poe. _The Sign of the Four_, A. Conan Doyle. _A Scandal in Bohemia_, A. Conan Doyle. _The Chronicles of Addington_, B. Fletcher Robinson. _The Mystery of the Steel Disk_, Broughton Brandenburg. _The Rajah's Diamond_, R.L. Stevenson. _The Doctor, his Wife, and the Clock_, Anna Katharine Green. _The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes_, A. Conan Doyle. _The Hound of the Baskervilles_, A. Conan Doyle. _A Double-Barrelled Detective Story_, Mark Twain. _Gallegher_, Richard Harding Davis. THE BIRTHMARK[1] _By Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1862)_.