Editorial note — Chapter X · (continued 6)

[Footnote 260: Probably Friday is here meant, being the Sabbath of the Mahometans.--E.]

[Footnote 261: Mr Finch perpetually forgets that his readers in England were not acquainted with the language of India, and leaves these eastern terms unexplained; in which he has been inconveniently copied by most subsequent travellers in the East. Chockees in the text, probably means turns of duty on guard.--E.]