obus à pétrole, shellfUled with petroleutn

20. compagnie franche, body of voîunteers not belonging to the regular army,

25. Saint-Barthélémy, allusion to the massacre of the Huguenots, Sept. 24, 1572, on St. Bartholomew*s day.

70l — 27. n'y tenait plus, couîd stand it no longer.

71. — 2. apothéose de cataclysme, translate, a world-shaking catastrophe,

72. — 13. Omar, name of two caliphs. Omar I lived in the 7th century, and was the first to be called Commander of the Faithful. He took an important part in the first collection of the Koran.

15. Alexandre, sea-port of Egypt founded by Alexander the Great, 332 B.c. Greek literature flourished hère, and a magnificent library of 700,000 volumes was collected, which was destroyed by the Saracens in 640 A.D.