à tonte Tapenr, cf. page 2, Une

15. ronfle, tbe upper structure of a sbip, also the roof of it ; not the upper deck, but additional rooms built on it.

17. qui éohappeàla deicription, ''that cannot be described, that beggars description."

5. — 4. n*était pas plus aTanoé que moi, " did not know more than I did."

16 smoking room, ia chambre à fumer. Note that tbrougliout tbe book tbe autbor gives tbe Frencb équivalent for almost everj Englisb pbrase be uses.

20. boulevard, " promenade deck." O. — 5. mis an rebut, " ostracized."

16. On fit sauter. Tbe impersonal forin in Frencb is often best translated by tbe passive voice in Englisb. Trans. "were rencioved/' deux chaudières, etc., being used as tbe subject of tbe verb.