[263] See note, p. 28. The Mohammedans are fatalists. {Transcriber's note: The reference is to footnote 28.} [264] A growth of osseous tissue uniting the extremities of fractured bones. [265] Disclosed. [266] The officers. [267] Leading principle. [268] Defoe means, "can burn only a few houses." In the next line he again misplaces "only." [269] Put to confusion. [270] Left out of consideration. [271] The distemper. [272] A means for discovering whether the person were infected or not. [273] Defoe's ignorance of microscopes was not shared by Robert Hooke, whose Micrographia (published in 1664) records numerous discoveries made with that instrument. [274] Roup is a kind of chicken's catarrh. [275] Them, i.e., such experiments. [276] From the Latin _quadraginta_ ("forty"). [277] From the Latin _sexaginta_ ("sixty"). [278] Kinds, species. [279] Old age. [280] Abscesses. [281] Himself. [282] The essential oils of lavender, cloves, and camphor, added to acetic acid. [283] In chemistry, balsams are vegetable juices consisting of resins mixed with gums or volatile oils. [284] Supply "they declined coming to public worship." [285] This condition of affairs. [286] Collar. [287] Economy. [288] Supply "they were." [289] Action (obsolete in this sense). See this word as used in 2 Henry IV., act iv. sc. 4. [290] Which. [291] Sailors' slang for "Archipelagoes." [292] An important city in Asia Minor. [293] A city in northern Syria, better known as Iskanderoon or Alexandretta. The town was named in honor of Alexander the Great, the Turkish form of Alexander being Iskander. [294] Though called a kingdom, Algarve was nothing but a province of Portugal. It is known now as Faro. [295] The natives of Flanders, a mediaeval countship now divided among Holland, Belgium, and France. [296] Colonies. In the reign of Charles II., the English colonies were governed by a committee (of the Privy Council) known as the "Council of Plantations." [297] The east side. [298] On the west side. [299] See map of England for all these places. Feversham is in Kent, forty-five miles southeast of London; Margate is on the Isle of Thanet, eighty miles southeast. [300] Commission merchants. [301] Privateers. _Capers_ is a Dutch word. [302] Supply "he." [303] Supply "the coals." [304] "One another," by a confusion of constructions, has been used here for "them." [305] By a statute of Charles II. a chaldron was fixed at 36 coal bushels. In the United States, it is generally 261/4 hundredweight. [306] Opening. [307] "To seek," i.e., without judgment or knowledge. [308] Mixing. [309] Him. [310] This unwary conduct. [311] Think. [312] Were. [313] Accept. [314] Personal chattels that had occasioned the death of a human being, and were therefore given to God (_Deo_, "to God"; _dandum_, "a thing given"); i.e., forfeited to the King, and by him distributed in alms. This curious law of deodands was not abolished in England until 1846.