corailleur : " coral-fisher's boat

13 éparpillement : " rambling méditation."

i'' bouillabaisse : a favorite Southern French stew, of fish or langouste (rock-lobster) boiled with garlic, or onions, powdered saffron, etc. The word is équivalent to bouillon abaissé ; that is to say, bouillon reduced by evaporation. The more usual spelling is bouille-abaisse.

1" gouaille : a kind of speckled gull.

1*' aïoli : a mess of crushed garlic (^ail) mixed with oil.

1" scopa : a game of cards, analogous to euchre, and exactly the same as the Italian game trisctte, or the French tr'-sept.

1^ ourlet : "seam"; literally, "hem."

1^ lampe Carcel : a kind of mechanical lamp, in which the oil is drawn up by clock-work arrangement. Carcel is the name of the inventor, who vvas a Frenchman.

^2" s'y faisaient : " became accustomed thereto."

21 Démétrius de Phalère : " Plutarch's Lives " has already been mentioned as forming " toute la bibliothèque des Sanguinaires."

2- au large : " in the offing." Where we say " off Sandy Hook," etc., the French use au large de.

1 Camargue : the island formed by alluvial deposit at the mouth of the Rhône. The district is chiefly important for its breeds of cattle and small horses The latter, according to a Provençal writer, descend from a primitive Arab stock which was captured at the tinie of an unsuccessful Saracen incursion, after the reign of Louis the Pious (814- 840).

2 garde : " gamekeeper."

•'galéjon: FrovençaÀ galejoun : a bird of the héron family.

■* Charlottines : from chariot, a popular synonym of courlis, " curlew." The Provençal form is charlotina, a name in use about Arles to dénote the scolopax liviosa, a bird of the wader family closely akin to the snipe. The word is also used, in the neighboring department of Gard, of the young curlew itself.

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" de prime : is hère used of game liagged in the evening, after sunset. The term is similarly applied to the evening draughts of sardines; des sardines de prime are those taken at sunset; sardines d^aube, those caught at sunrise. Another application of the teiin is to the first arrivais, especially of codtish, of the season when the fishermen return home.

'' Arles : the ancient Arelate, one of the most renowned of the cities of Southern France.

^ chênes kermès : "cochineal oaks"; the quercus coccifera. Kermès, though borrowed from the Arabie, has been traced back, says Littré, to the Sanskrit karmi, a " worm." Cramoisi, " crimson," is a derivative of kermès, and was likewise borrowed from the Arabie karmesi.

^ abbaye de Mont-majour : an old abbey founded in the tentli century, but now mostly in ruins, two kilomètres from Arles.

■* Ville-des-Baux : nowadays an insigniticant village to the northeast of Arles; but in the Middle Ages the seigneurs de Baux w exe a very powerful family, with seventy-nine estâtes or castles in their dependency. As was the fashion with the mediœval nobility, they dated their ancestry far back in the cloudy past, and claimed for their founder, Balthazar, one of the three traditional Magi kings.

1*^ St. Trophyme : a church at Arles, dedicated to Trophymus, the chief patron of the place.

11 moucharabies : " machicolated parapets " ; a term of mediœval fortification. The collective expression " machicolation " vvould also be a proper rendering.

1- Court-Nez: the original form of the aristocratie name "Courtney."