U LION ABATTU PAS I/HOKKX

On exposait une peinture

Où l'artisan avait tracé

Un lion d'immense stature

Par un seul homme terrassé.

lies regardants en tiraient gloire.

Un lion, en passant, rabattit leur caquet.

" Je vois bien,'* dit-il, " qu'en effet

On vous donne ici la victoire :

Hais l'ouvrier vous a déçus ;

Savait liberté de feindre, vec plus de raison nous aurions le dessus Si mes confrères savaient peindre."

La Fontaines Fables, Book HT., Fable X*

45 7—Montezuma : King of Mexico (1502.1520). In

1502 the Spanish, under Cortez, landed on his estâtes, and were allowed to enter Mexico.

Cortez wanting a hostage in an unknown country, had Montezuma seized in his own palace and imprisoned in the Spanish quarter. An insurrection broke ont to set the king at liberty ; the latter, in order to stop it, jshowed himself to his subjects, and was wounded. Then, not willing to be used any longer as an instrument of slavery with regard to his own people, he refused both help and food, and starved himself to death (1520).

45 14 — Constantinople : Anciently Byzantium, called by the Turks Istamboul or Stamboul, became the seat of the empire under Constantine the Great, was stormed by the Crusaders in the thirteenth century, and in 1453 was taken by Mohammed, son of the Turkish Sultan, Amurath, over the Christian Emperor, Constantine, and chosen as the seat of the Turkish empire, which it has continued to be ever since.

45 16 — Le commandeur des croyants: A title given to califs.

45 17 — Zobéïde : Zobeidah, cousin and wife of Kalife Haroun-al-Kaschid, died in 831. This princess plays a great part in the Arabian nights.

45 24 — Rehaussant la richesse de leurs atours : Enhancing

the richness of their attire.

46 14 — La Dore : A rivulet in France which, united to the

Dogne, forma the Dordogne.

iQ 20 — Mon cœur te donne : A poetical ellipsis and inversion for " Je te donne mon cœur."

Tage 48 Une 16 — Hadgi : *.*., in Arabian, a pilgrim, a name taken

by Mussulmans who hâve been on pilgrimage to Mecca or Médina. Every true disciple of Mahomet muet accomplish this journey ai least once in his life.

48 16 — Mêdine : A city of Arabia, in the province of

El Hejâz.

51 16 — Un sourire déchirant : A heartrending smile.

63 20 — Je votts tiens pour prud'homme : I hold you for a

good and true man.

54 6 — Transpercé de douleur : Fierced to the heart with

grief.

54 19 — Maroc : Morocco, the capital of the empire of that

name.

64 20 — l'Yémen: A région in the S.W. of Arabia, the

principal part of the Arabia Félix of the ancients.

54 21 — La Mecque : Mecca, a city of Arabia, capital of

the province of El Hejaz. It contains the temple of La Kaabah, to which Mecca owes its eanctity in the eyes of the followers of Mahomet»

Kaabah, i.e. f the cube or square bouse.

55 7 — Lui servit de second : Was his second.

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