prairie – a level treeless land covered with grass
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debris = wreckage, fragments, ruins
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schism – splitting or separation through difference of opinions
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aortic aneurism – widening of aorta, a serious and even fatal disease
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blase = sophisticated
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growler – a four-wheeled cab pulled by a horse
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brougham – a closed carriage pulled by one horse
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Montpellier – a city in southern France, 12 km from the Mediterranean Sea
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‘Populus me sibilat, at mihi plaudo ipse domi simul ac nummos contemplar in arca.’ – A quotation from ‘Satires’ by Horace: ‘People hissed at me but I applauded, I ruled (dominated) and at the same time I also contemplated the money in the chest.’ (Latin)
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yawl – a sailing boat with two masts
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Deptford – an area in the borough of Lewicham in London
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Greenwich – an outer borough of London on the bank of the Thames
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Erith – an area in Bexley, an outer borough of London on the south bank of the River Thames
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halos – a halo is a circle of light round the sun and the moon, or above the heads of the saints
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the Gauls – Celtic tribes known to the Romans as Gauls; they inhabited Europe in 500 BC–500 AD.
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concertina – a musical wind instrument held in the hands and played by pressing keys
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Falernian wine – an Italian dark red wine
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Ravenna – a city in northeastern Italy 10 km from the Adriatic Sea
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Buddha (6th-4th century BC) – the founder of Buddhism, one of the major world religious and philosophical systems
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Fleet Street – a street in central London where important newspaper offices used to be located at the time of the events depicted in the story
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the Channel – or the English Channel, a narrow arm of the Atlantic Ocean separating the British Isles from the Continent
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venetian blinds – a window screen with horizontal strips that can be adjusted as wanted
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Bon voyage – Happy voyage, Happy journey (French)
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Morituri te salutant. – ‘Those who are going to die salute you.’ – the words used by Roman gladiators to greet Caesar (Latin)
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emissary – a person sent with a message (usually a secret one)
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catacomb – underground gallery, often used for the burial of the dead
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inch – measure of length equal to 2.54 cm
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Deal – a town on the Strait of Dover, 14 km northeast of Dover
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Gravesend – a town in the county of Kent, in the southeastern England, on the bank of the Thames
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yokels – simple-minded countrymen
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lb. – a pound, measure of weight equal to 453.59 grams
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Zanzibaris – inhabitants of Zanzibar, an island in the Indian Ocean near the coast of eastern Africa
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philanthropic – kind, helpful, sympathetic
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papier-mache – pulped paper used to make boxes, souvenirs, etc.
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Mephistopheles – a literary character invented in the tradition of magic and demonology by anonymous author in 1587; a fallen angel, a spirit of the Devil.
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lunatics – mad persons
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ichthyosaurus – an extinct aquatic reptile
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Eldorado – an imaginary country rich in gold
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cannibals – persons who eats humans
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Winchesters – rifles developed by Oliver Winchester (1810–1880), an American manufacturer of guns
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hullabaloo – uproar or disturbance
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apathy – indifference
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Martini-Henry – a rifle used in the 19th century
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a black Sahara – the southern part of Sahara, the largest desert of the world, where Negroid peoples live; the north of Sahara is inhabited by the Arabs.
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harlequin – a character in Italian comedy and English pantomime wearing a mask and multicoloured clothes
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brown holland – rough linen
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canoes – light boats moved by one or several persons
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