le comte d'Estaing. See note to p

1. 18. le moment du branle-bas, 'the time of clearing for action.'

1. 36. les Quarts, ' the watches which are denoted by strokes of the bell every hour and half-hour.'

Page 136. 1. 2. cette pension de phoques, ' this colony of seadogs.'

1. 32. de Clarisse, the heroine of Clarissa Harlowe, the wellknown novel by Richardson (1689-1762).

1. 33. de Sacontala, the heroine of the Indian drama of the same name by Kalidasa, a famous Hindu poet who probably lived in the first century of our era.

Paqe 137. 1. 5. à revenir chez ses parents. In his Essai sur les Révolutions Chateaubriand makes a fuller référence to this épisode. Francis Tulloch was a young officer of artillery who had been converted to Roman Catholicism. He had joined the society of priests sailing in this vessel with a view to taking Roman orders in America. Chateaubriand conceived a warm friendship for him and did his best to dissuade Tulloch from his purpose. The latter, however, deserted him at Baltimore. Many years after, when French ambassador in London, Chateaubriand encountered Francis Tulloch a second time, and learnt that the young Englishman had taken his advice, and had remained a layman.

L 10. Tuta aequora silent, 'the untroubled waters are still.' The correct quotation is Aequora tuta silent. It is taken from Virgil's Aeneid I, 1. 164.

L 35. Oiustiniani (1470-1531) was a Hebraist and Bishop of Nebbio in Corsica. His Psalter published in 1516 was entitled Psalterium hebraicum, graecum, arabicum, chaldaicum.

Page 138. 1. 5. tanquam sponsus, ut gigas. Ps. xix. 5.

1. 7. Pythagore, the Greek philosopher, mathematician, and promulgator of the theory of the transmigration of soûls, lived in the sixth century before Christ. He travelled widely in his youth, in search of knowledge.

L 12. Camoëns (1524-1579), the Portuguese poet and author of the Lusiades, spent several years of his life in the East, where he composed his great poem. He died in poverty and destitution, which explains the référence to his burial.