qu'importe, ro matter

Page 65. — 1. encroûtées de, encrusted with.

Page 67.— 1. Ceylan, a large island in the Indian Ocean south of India, belonging to England.

Page 68.—1. nous autres; awre, with a personal pronoun, as here, is used to emphasize the pronoun subject of the sentence. Translate merely by stress of voice on the latter.

2. Vous vous y ferez, you wi/! get used Lo them; y refers to requins.