arbres aux feuilles d'azur : see note, p

,, 7. le vent du nord : remember that only the north and the south wind hâve du, ail the others de ; e.g.

le vent d'est, d'ouest, de nord-est, de sud-est, de nordouest, de sud-ouest.

,, 13. la plus haute qui se fût : account for the subjunctive.

,, 14. la bouche sèche, les yeux brûlés : see note, p. 1 1. 10, and cf. below, 1. 20, mal à la tête and il hâta le pas.

,, 25. un oiseau au plumage vert : see note, p. 47 L 1. ,, 29. de grands papillons aux ailes rouges : see note, p. 47 1. 1.

53. 1. les beaux lépidoptères, ' beautiful lepidoptera ' (scaly-

winged), an order of insects, biitterflies, nioths having the wings clothed with scales implanted in the wings, with their margins overlapping other scales ; it is thèse and not the wings themselves that are so gaily coloured.

,, 20. le vomito negro, ' black vomit,' 'yellow fever,' a pestilential contagions fever to which negroes and Mongolians are little susceptible, common on the seacoasts and along the great rivers in the West Indies and in Africa (west coast).

,, 27. ça n'avance à rien : ça is a conversational and familiar forin for cela.