prendre {a mer, fo put to sea ; note English idiom

Page 3.— 1. soutes, #unkers.

2. très cordialement votre, not a French formula, but the translation of our: “very cordially yours.” A Frenchman might have said: Agréez, Monsieur, mes cordiales salutations.”

Page 4.—1. tenter le passage du Nord-Ouest, trying to find the northwest passage, a much discussed strait, supposed by some to exist between Baffin’s Bay and the Arctic Ocean.