des Natchez. See Introduction

Page 141. 1. 17. Nous appareillâmes, ' we got under sail.' 1. 23. Ouillaume-le- Breton wrote a rhymed chronicle of the life of Philip Augustus, from which the extract is taken.

Page 142. 1. 9. pélagienne, ' of the sea,' another word invented by Chateaubriand from the Classics. Latin pelagus, the sea.