fait sauter, snap

4. Fort Kearney, as a matter of fact, lies on the other side of the Platte River.

Page 126. — 1. de bonne volonté, volunleering, as volunleers.

Page 128. — 1. trouvât without n'était pas douteux : Edgr. § 383; Wh. § 1 70, a.

Page 132. — 1. semelles, lit. ' soles,' hère runners (of a sleigh).

Page 134. — 1. s'enlevaient du même vol, flew up together (lit. ' took themselves offat the same flight').

Page 135.— i. tenait bon, stoodit weîl.

Page 136. — i. guidon de départ, signal (Jlag) ofdeparture.

Page 137. — i. tous les hauts, ail the upper works. 2. Des . . . ventre, stones in the hold (= 'ballast ').

Page 138. — i. N'importe quel prix ? At no price ? 2. eut raison de, overcome (lit. ' had the right, i.e. the upper hand or best of).

Page 139. — i. passerelle, bridge (for the officers in charge of a ship).

2. faire le point, take the bearings (ascertain the position of a ship).

Page 140. — i. interlope, lit. ' interloping, contraband,' hère adventurous, mixed.

Page 142. — i. prendre hauteur (viz. du soleil), take the altitude (to ascertain the latitude).

2. dunette, poop (deck raised above the after part of a vessel) : dans la d. into the cabin beloiv the poop ; sur la d., upon the poop or after-deck.

Page 143. — i. de par (for part), in the name of. 2. rendu, retumed, back.

Page 144. — i . aménagements, fittings, woodwork.

Page 145. — i. A pleine (= haute) mer, with the tide.

Page 147. — i. sans retour, absolutely.

Page 155. — i. ne nous prononçons pas, let us not be so certain.

Page 156. — i. Plus, cf. p. 39, note 2.

2. qui . . . continu, which came rolling ever nearer and nearer.

Page 157. — 1. mais il attendit, and he had to tuait too.

Page 159. — 1. en vouloir à quelqu'un, hâve a grudge against or wish to harm some one.