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22. There are of course no priests in Islam. Leigh merely means someone
with authority in the mosque.
23. Sulaiman I, Ottoman Sultan 1520-66.
24. Leigh’s uncle was Henry Studdy of Waddeton Hall near Totnes, with
whom he stayed before and after his four years tour in the Indian Ocean.
25. Dom Pedro, Emperor of Brazil, abdicated in favour of his son and landed
in Portugal in 1833 to restore his daughter Maria II who had been dethroned by
her uncle Dom Miguel.
26. Magui ben Sayed, Leigh’s interpreter, was a Mombasa Arab.
27. Adda was Leigh’s African servant.
28. Chunam is prepared lime set in water. See Uobson-Jobson, 2nd Ed.,
Yule, H., and Burnell, A. C., London, 1903.
29. Newman Hunt was one of the partners in the company which employed
Leigh.
[A carcase was a kind of fire-ball from a gun for igniting buildings (Oxford
Concise Dictionary, 1929). Eds.]