maquis, brushwood. The maquis or makis

are the uncultivated districts of the island; they are overgrown with a thick, tangled underbrush, consisting of arbutus, myrtle, thorn, laurel, broom and other shrubs.

travaillé, hère, carved.

traînent, hère, lie about.

touche, hère, concerns.

querelles de familles, allusion to the Vendetta, or private blood-feuds, often hereditary, in which a family seeks to avenge an injury or a murder committed against one of its members, upon the offender or his family. The Vendetta is very fréquent in Corsica.