n'eût peut-être pas empêché : note the use of the

pluperfect subjunctive for the past conditional, which is very comnion.

,, 28. prêter main-forte : see note, p. 16 1. 16.

au pavillon de Soulouque : tiie western ]iortion of the island of Hayti remained republican until 1849, when its former président, the negro gênerai Soulouqne, i^roclaimed an empire and assumed the title of Emperor Faustin I. In 1859, however, a republic was again proclaimed.

,, 30. Port-au-Prince, the capital of Hayti, is situated on the west coast, at the head of a bay of the same name.