à craignit d’avoir.—‘* He feared he had

1. 11. pavillon de découverte means the signal agreed on in case any of them should discover land.

L 11. téra un coup de canon.—"* Fired a canor shot.” de joie is difficult to translate ; we may say ‘for joy,” but this is not very exact ; it is used in a special sense and seems to mean ‘such as would be fired : at a celebration.” Compare : feu de joie, ‘‘ bonfire.”