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A few terms I've encountered while marking up in HTML the journals of Lachlan Macquarie (soldier, traveller, and sixth Governor of NSW).
blue-skins - "the Offspring of European Fathers, by Moor or Gentoo women".
cuddy - "The public or captain’s cabin of an Indiaman or other passenger ship." (The Hobson Jobson Dictionary of Anglo-Indian Terms)
dead-lights - "certain wooden ports which are made to fasten into the cabin-windows, to prevent the waves from gushing into a ship in a high sea." (William Falconer's Dictionary of the Marine)
debark - to get off a boat, to disembark. (The silly-sounding deplane apparently has historical precedent.)
sensibly - detectably, noticeably
ETA: Lachie also mentions that the zebra was also known as the Queen's Ass.
blue-skins - "the Offspring of European Fathers, by Moor or Gentoo women".
cuddy - "The public or captain’s cabin of an Indiaman or other passenger ship." (The Hobson Jobson Dictionary of Anglo-Indian Terms)
dead-lights - "certain wooden ports which are made to fasten into the cabin-windows, to prevent the waves from gushing into a ship in a high sea." (William Falconer's Dictionary of the Marine)
debark - to get off a boat, to disembark. (The silly-sounding deplane apparently has historical precedent.)
sensibly - detectably, noticeably
ETA: Lachie also mentions that the zebra was also known as the Queen's Ass.