flaire leurs vœux, to pronounce their vows

26. NovoGTorod, Novgorod- Veliki, or Novogorod the Great, a city in the province of that name, at the northem extremity of the lake Ilmen. Formerly a powerful republic, called by the historians of the time the Kome of the North, with a population of over 400,000 inhabitants. The Tzar Ivan the Terrible made a désert of the city (1569), killing ail— men, women, and chiidren. It never recovered this terrible blow. It was built by the Slavs about the fifth century.

28. s'était particulièrement liée, had struck a close friendship vrith, had hecome closely intirncUe.