Avant le Départ

1. et de se faire expliquer : and toget him to explain to tkem,

2. Jules Gérard. The most famous of the lion-hunters of Algeria ; he was born in 181 7 and was drowned in Africa in 1864. He killed in ail twenty-five lions. His two books, La chasse au lion and Gérard le tueur de lions, appeared in 1855 and 1856.

3. connaissait la chasse au lion sur le bout du doigt, comme s'il Pavait faite : had at his tongué's end ail that could be known of lionhunting, as if he had been personally engaged in the sport,