He rose, when he had finished his entry among those epoch- making memoranda, and received his visitors.

The captain asked Corny a hundred questions in regard to the estate, making memoranda of his answers.

He appeared to have been making memoranda.

So saying, he handed to the Governor a small leathern pocket-book, such as were used for making memoranda, and withdrew.

In such cases many little stratagems must be resorted to by the traveller, not to lose entirely the advantage of making memoranda on the spot.