L. 23. dégouttante, dripping, from dé, and gouffe, a drop

1.25 NAVARIN (V£o Castron), is situated on the coast of Morea. The naval battle in which the Turks were defeated by the combined fleets of England, France and Russia, took place on the 2oth of October, 1827.

P. 75, L 4. vivaces. forbans. Vivace = dificile à détruire. Forban, a pirate, liter. a person under ban, from the ©. F. verb /orbannir (for = hors, L. foris, and bannir).

DUuUQUESNE (Abraham) (1610—x1688), a celebrated French admiral ; 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 (1682—1683), and compelled the Dey to restore all the Christian slaves.