[1] New York City, about where Yonkers now stands.
[2] Tokyo-Yokohama, Japan.
[3] Now Long Island.
[4] Now Europe and Asia.
[5] A medical word, translated here as cancer, though possibly not that.
[6] Now Montreal.
[7] Now Cape Chelyuskin, Laimur Peninsula, Siberia.
[8] Hayes Peninsula, Northwest Greenland, near the present site of Etah.
[9] Now Matto Grosso State, Brazil.
[10] A cement or mortar used in stone constructions—evidently partially combustible.
[11] A universal insulating fabric, as rubber insulates electricity and asbestos bars heat.
[12] A small winged board without power, used for emergency descents by volplaning down from disabled aeros.
[13] The Rocky Mountains, in the United States or possibly Alberta.
[14] Elta—a term or title denoting rank by birth.
[15] Canal, as it now is thought to be.
[16] Evidently the upper Amazon.
[17] About 4,000 feet.
[18] Orchestra.
[19] A scent or perfume, highly intoxicating.
[20] A popinjay—fop.
[21] Half-way between midnight and dawn.
[22] An awkward, unpronounceable word which for the purposes of this narrative may be termed Industriana.
[23] Quicksilver.
[24] Similar doubtless to our present-day X-ray.
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