tout se mêlait, collective for tous se mêlaient

1. 23. Aimé Bonpland (1773 — 1858), celebrated naturalist, travelled through the v^ilds of Central America with Humboldt in 1799.

1. 27. Alexander von Humboldt (1769 — 1859). His Voyage aux régions équinoxiales du Nouveau, Continent, was published between 1805 and 1825.

57j 1- 15» de son propre fonds, liter. from his own stock (L. fundîis, estate, property), from his own observation.

1. 23. César Wichard de Saint-Réal (1639 — 1692). His pretended historical works are merely historical romances. The conspiracy of the marquis de Bedmar has been reduced by M. Ranke to its true proportions, namely those of a coup de ?nain attempted against the Republic

of Venice by the French pirate Jacques Pierre, and the Duke d'Ossuna, viceroy of Naples.