Que veux-tu, what would you expect (me to do

82* 16. Ce fut, etc.; see note to line 26, p. 17.

84* II. Hanoi, the chief city of the French province of Tonkin, in the Song-Ceri {yi'tà River).

ISO NOTES

84* 13. dès le matin, at dawn; compare notes to line i, p. 21.

84. 15. Phn-Doan, a small town about 60 miles northwest of Hanoï.

85» 16. Haï-Phong is a city of about 20,000 inhabitants near one of the mouths of the Song-Cot.

88» 24. à la baïonnette, abbreviated from chargez à la baïonmtu.

90» 2. que ; see note to line 26, p. 17.

91* 15. serait, is said to be, a frequent use of the conditional; so also aurait, below.

91. 17. Bouddha, English Bnddha, The Enlightened, was the founder of Buddhism, a religion professed by at least one fourth of the inhabitants of the earth.

96. 21. The Delta of the Red River is very large, forming almost an equilateral triangle with sides more than 100 miles long.