Annotation - Chapter 17, Page 201

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  • (201:8) "a farring seakert tryer from other side"

This phrase contains some obvious references: farring = far-off, journey, seakert = sea, secret, tryer = attempt... but also a pun on Foreign Secretary (the British equivalent of the U.S. Secretary of State). SLK