dégouttante, dripping, from de, and goutte, a drop

1. 25. Navarin {Neo Gastron), is situated on the coast of IMorea. The naval battle in which the Turks were defeated by the combined fleets of England, France and Russia, took place on the 20th of October, 1827.

P. 75, 1. 4. vivacis forbans. Virace = difficile à détruire. Forban, z. pirate, liter. a person under ban, from the O. F. vevh forbannir {for = hors, \j.foris, and bannir).

DuQUESNE {Abraham) (1610 — 1688), a celebrated French admirai; having been ordered to clear the Mediterranean of the pirates who infested it, he defeated the fleet of Tripoli at Chio (1681), bombarded

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Algiers twice (16S2 — 16S5), and compelled tlie Dey to restore ail tiie Christian slaves.