Qu'ils passèrent à gué. — Which they forded

9. Morne. — The name given to small, rounded mountains in the Frencb colonies.

10. Aux yeux enfoncés. — With sunken eyes. With, when it means having, provided, or furnished with, is rendered by a and the article. See Grammar, p. 233, § 7.

11. Ne fit pas grand compte. — Did not pay much attention, take much notice-

12. Ils avaient fait h jeun plus de cinq lieues. — They had walked without food more than five leagues. A jeun is, literaily, fasting. Faire une distance is to go or travel, over a distance : as, faire une promenade, to take a walk ; faire un voyage, to perform a journey ; faire une lieue h cheval, to ride a league. This use of faire is analogous to the English expression, to make four miles an hour. For the use of de instead of que, see Grammar, p. 230, § 8.

18. Il exauce la voix. — He hearkens to the voice. Exaucer, generally used in connection with prayer, means to hear favorably, to listen to.

14. Comme ils regardaient de côté et d'autre s'ils ne trouveraient pas. — A3 they were looking around in every direction (on ail sides) to see if they could not find.

15. Aubier. — Blea, or sap-wood; the whitish part which is between the bark and the body of a tree.

16. Qu'il fait rebrousser les meilleurs haches. — That the best axes make no impression upon it.

17. L'idée lui vint de mettre le feu a. — The idea occurred to him to set fire to.

18. La nécessité donne de l'industrie. — Necessity is the mother of invention ; literaily, necessity gives skill, ingenuity. The usual form of the proverb in French, la nécessité est la mère de l'industrie.