dans les gros temvs. — "In rough weather

1. 8. empêchaient, etc. — "Hindered the weight of any wave they might ship from sinking the vessel." empêcher should take the subjunctive with ne, though one finds it sometimes with the indicative and without ne, as : cela n' empêche pas que les Flamands ont de beaux chevaux. — (Victor Hugo.)

1. 13. s'adaptaient, etc. — " Would, when it was calm, be fixed in the low bulwarks in the middle part of the ship, and could, in case of need, give it a slow motion."

L 15. c'es<.— "I|iwas."

L 17- en tout. — "AU told." Lui seid ; lui is used instead of il, because it does not stand next the verb.

1. 19. "His conjectures, after eighteen years, (of thought) had become, in his mind, a certainty. "

1.20. bien que. — Conjunctions denoting a concession take the subjunctive.

L 21. qu£, for bien que. — See note on line 1, page 3.

'J6 ' Notes.