dépister, usuly * track ' but hère lead off the track

4. 'The Peninsular and Oriental (Steamboat) Company,' viz. for the traffic between Italy and India, by way of the Suez Canal.

Page 19. — 1. M. ( = Monsieur) Lesseps, the builder of the Suez Canal.

2. au large de Port-Saïd, off Port Said (seaport town in lower Egypt, on the west side of the north end of the Suez Canal).

Page 20. — 1. dévisager, scrutinize.