Note 2 — CHAPTER THE THIRD. THE VALLEY OF THE BOWL. THE SCENE CHANGES TO THE MOUNTAIN LAKE, WHERE THE TRAGEDY OF THE HOUSE OF ALBARONE WILL AT LAST COME TO AN END.
Reading edition
The word which we have written “Postillion,” in the ancient MSS. indicates a Courier, a Messenger; “one who carries letters from place to place.” This personage, whom we here designated, “Francisco the Courier,” is not unfrequently styled “Cisco the vagabond,” in the original manuscripts.