non pas: pas strengthens non, and therefore non pas

should be rendered by ' not at ail,' 'by no means,' ' certainly not. '

essaye d'une ruse : essayer qn. or qc. means to try some one or something, e.g. essayer un instrument, une machine, un cheval, etc. ; essayer de qc. nieans ' to hâve a try witli something.'

,, 22. Saint-Dominique, or La Dominique, the largest and niost southerly British island in the Leeward group of the Lesser Antilles. Dominica was discovered by Colnmbus on his second voyage on Sunday (whence its name Dominica, i.e. the Lord's Day), November 3,