vaisseau, i.e. vaisseau amiral, ** flagship

17. — 30. et de se l'être avoué, '* and at having confessed the fact to each other." V doesn't stand for la referring to opinion^ otherwise the participle a^aué would take the féminine form to agre with it. The object is le referring to the fact just expressed.

18* — 7. s'avançait . . . salua. Note the imperfect expressing continnity of action (" was advancing") and the prétérit or past definite for a sharply defined act.

15. Peut-être y eut-il de l'un et de Tautre, "perhaps there was something of both "

16. toujours est-il que, "at any rate"; lit "(this) anyway ia (true) that."

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