fatigué. —"*Strained

L 7. le vide seems to mean the space covered by the half-decks,

L 8 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 finis 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, ete. —"" Would, wlen 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'est.—* It was,”

L 17. en tout.—""AIl told.” Lui seul; lui is used instead of 64 because it does not stand next the verb.

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

L 20. bien que.—Conjunctions denoting a concession take the subjunctive,

L 21. que, for bien que.—Ses uute on line 1, page 3,

Norss,

L 24. se sentait. He felt in himself.”

1 26. orientait.—-Origivally, ‘‘ to set towards the eust,” then to set in auy direction; note also s'orienter, ‘to take one’s bearings.”

L 30. dont il, ete.—"* With which he had just been invested.”

1, 42. il invooua, etc., seems to mean : ‘ He prayed his Saviour to keep him in the faith, and he called on men to witness his c->nstancy.”

L 85, ne plus. —Both are put before infinitive, like ne ras, ne point, etc.

Page 29, line 1. tout en rendant grâce, ete. —** At the same time that he was thanking God for,” etc.; or, ‘though he thanked God for,” etc.