d'anordir, ' to direct our course towards the north

1. 23. à recevoir le baptême, i.e. le baptême de la ligne, on entering certain parts of Father Neptune's realm. It usually consisted in being ducked or soused with water.

1. 26. le bonhomme Tropique, the Father Neptune of the English sailors.

1. 26. Tropique et hydropique. This play on words is untranslatable. Hydropique, which properly means dropsical, is hère used in the sensé of being doused with water.

1. 34. Silène, ' Silenus.' He was the companion tutor of Bacchus, and is usually represented as an old man partially intoxicated.

Page 143. 1. 6. Colonnes d'Hercule, i.e. the mountains of Abyla and Calpe on either side of the Straits of Gibraltar.

1. 11. nous étions presque dessus, ' we were quite close to it, almost upon its shore.'

1. 28. une lisière de landes tourbeuses et arasées, ' a belt of level, peaty, uncultivated land.'