les montées et les c'escentes.—‘* The slopes

Page 11, line 1. L'attrait.—Attrait is used both objectively and subjectively ; (Compare 1. 24 p. 9,) here it is perlaps best translated by : ‘‘the invincible attraction which this enterprise had for the poor geographer,”

1.7. etoù Vasco de Gama, eto.—"‘ And not long before Vasco de Gama discovered.”