_63_ 18, _seulette_.

_33_ 28 _bassin de carenage_: 'dry dock' _Carenage_ 'careenage' = a place
for, or the act of, careening a ship for the purpose of examining or
repairng its hull or keel (_carene_).

_34_ 3 _Malte_: 'Malta,' an island in the Mediterranean, between Sicily
and Africa, which has belonged to England since 1814.

_34_ 9 _comme en l'air_: 'as if they were sailing in the air', cf. note to
_29_ 22.

_34_ 12 _fort Saint-Jean, fort Saint-Nicolas_: the two forts which guard
the entrance to the harbor of Marseilles.

_34_ 13 _la Major_: the old cathedral of Marseilles (_Sainte Marie
Majeure_).--_Accoules, Saint-Victor_: old churches in Marseilles.

_34_ 14 _mistral_: (Latin _magistralis_ 'masterly') 'mistral,' a violent
north-west wind which sweeps down the Rhone valley.

_35_ 12 _golfe du Lion_: 'Gulf of the Lion,' off southern France.

_36_ 2 _casque a meche_: used jocosely for 'night cap' _Casque = 'helmet',
_meche = 'wick,' _meche de cheveux_ = 'lock of hair.' A helmet with a
flowing crest resembles a night cap with its tassel--_jusqu'aux ...
bleme_: 'to the ears of a pale sufferer's head.'

_36_ 10 _comme ... voulu_: _en vouloir a quelqu'un_ means 'to bear a
grudge against a person.' _Il en veut a Jean_ = 'he bears a grudge against
John.' Here 'how angry they would have been with themselves!' 'how they
would have reproached themselves!'

_36_ 13 _courage_: 'energy.' The word _courage_ (ordinarily = English
'courage') is often so used. _Je n'ai pas le courage de travailler
aujourd'hui_ 'I haven't the energy to work (do not feel like working) to
day.' Cf. _50_ 1.

_36_ 15 _cuir_: 'leather (case).'

_36_ 16 _ne cessait_: _pas_ is often omitted with _savoir, pouvoir,
cesser, oser, bouger_, cf. _18_ 32, _86_ 3.

_36_ 18 _Imbecile, va!_: 'what a fool you are!' _Va! allez!_ and _allons!_
(imperatives of _aller_) are common exclamations, the sense varies with
the context. For _allons!_ cf. _56_ 1--_Je te l'avais bien dit_ 'I told
you so.'

_36_ 19 _Eh bien ... l'Afrique!_: 'well now, here's your Africa!' On _te_
see note to _13_ 7. _La_ anticipates _l'Afrique_, cf. _32_ 5.

_36_ 27 _la Mecque_: 'Mecca,' in Arabia, the birthplace of Mohammed;
the Holy City to which every good Mohammedan goes in pilgrimage at least
once.

_36_ 25 _Alcazar_: a music-hall. _Alcazar_ means in Arabic 'the palace.'

_36_ 28 _Ravel, Gil Peres_: popular comedians in Paris at the time Daudet
was writing.

_36_ 30 _un