{112}[145] ["They discovered land _right ahead_, and steered for it. There being a very _heavy surf_, they endeavoured to turn the boat's head to it, which, from weakness, they were unable to accomplish, and soon afterwards _the boat upset_."--"Sufferings of Six Deserters from St. Helena, 1799," _Shipwrecks and Disasters at Sea_, 1812, iii, 371.] [146] [Compare lines "Written after swimming from Sestos to Abydos," _Poetical Works_, 1900, iii. 13, note 1; see, too, _Letters_, 1898, i. 262, 263, note 1.] {114}[147] [Compare-- "How long in that same fit I lay I have not to declare." _The Ancient Mariner_, Part V. lines 393, 394.] {115}[bh] ---- _in short she's one_.--[MS.] {116}[bi] _A set of humbug rascals, when all's done_-- _I've seen much finer women, ripe and real_, _Than all the nonsense of their d----d ideal_.--[MS.] [148] [Compare _Childe Harold_, Canto IV. stanza 1. lines 6-9, _Poetical Works_, 1899, ii. 366, note 1.] [149] [Probably that "Alpha and Omega of Beauty," Lady Adelaide Forbes (daughter of George, sixth Earl of Granard), whom Byron compared to the Apollo Belvidere. See _Letters_, 1898, ii. 230, note 3.] [150] ["The _saya_ or _basquiña_ ... the outer petticoat ... is always black, and is put over the indoor dress on going out." Compare Μελανείμονες ἅπαντες τὸ πλέον ἐν σάγοις, [Greek: Melanei/mones a(/pantes to\ ple/on e)n sa/gois,] Strabo, lib. iii. ed. 1807, i. 210. Ford's _Handbook for Spain_, 1855, i. 111.] {117}[151] ["When Ajax, Ulysses, and Phoenix stand before Achilles, he rushes forth to greet them, brings them into the tent, directs Patroclus to mix the wine, cuts up the meat, dresses it, and sets it before the ambassadors." (_Iliad_, ix. 193, sq.)--_Study of the Classics_, by H.N. Coleridge, 1830, p, 71] {119}[bj] _And such a bed of furs, and a pelisse_.--[MS.] {120}[bk] ---- _which often spread_, _And come like opening Hell upon the mind_, _No "baseless fabric" but "a wrack behind."_--[MS.] {121}[bl] _Had e'er escaped more dangers on the deep_;-- _And those who are not drowned, at least may sleep_.--[MS.] [152] [Entitled "_A Narrative of the Honourable John Byron_ (Commodore in a late expedition round the world), containing an account of the great distresses suffered by himself and his companions on the coast of Patagonia, from the year 1740, till their arrival in England, 1746. Written by Himself," London, 1768, 40. For the Hon. John Byron, 1723-86, younger brother of William, fifth Lord Byron, see _Letters_, 1898, i. 3.] [bm] _Wore for a husband--or some such like brute_.--[MS.] [bn] ---- _although of late_ _I've changed, for some few years, the day to night_.--[MS.] [153] [The second canto of _Don Juan_ was finished in January, 1819, when the Venetian Carnival was at its height.]