Quby[X]

[Joel S. Berson]

Doh!  It's the fourth of the footnote symbols -- asterisk, dagger,
double-dagger, section-sign -- and the place is simply Cuba.

An earlier line in the article uses the first three symbols for
footnotes explaining obscure spellings of place-names, but I never
bothered to look at the footnotes to see what those places were.  The
section-sign and explanation of "Quby" are also included among the
footnotes.  (The form in the newspaper is a little different from the
modern section-sign.)

Joel

At 4/18/2011 07:36 PM, Joel S. Berson wrote:
>K. Where are you bound to?
>      W. On a _racking_ voyage to Quby[?] and the westward.  [The
>uncertain letter looks like a long ess shape (but not a long ess
>letter) superimposed on an oval, lower-case o -- or perhaps a pair of
>long ess shapes, the right one higher than the left.]

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