.'

_77_ 15 _Il suffit d'un kepi:_ cf. note to _62_ 12.

_77_ 17 _la toque de Gessler:_ 'Gessler's cap.' Gessler is the Austrian
governor of Swltzerland who figures in the story of William Tell. The
Swiss were forced to salute his cap, which was placed on a pole.

_77_ 18 _allait son train:_ 'went on its way.' _Train_ = 'gait.'

_77_ 23 _bureau arabe:_ 'Arab office,' the French bureau for the
Administration of affairs concerning the natives.--_au bon frais:_
strengthened form of _au frais_ 'in the fresh air.'

_77_ 25 _crut a un coup de main:_ 'thought it was an uprising'; cf. _94_
27. _Coup de main_ = 'surprise,' 'sudden attack.'--_fit baisser:_ cf. note
to _7_ 25.

_77_ 26 _mit ... en etat de siege:_ 'proclaimed martial law in the city.'

_78_ 2 _se sauva ... jambes:_ 'ran away into the Zakkar as fast as he
could.' For the Zakkar (a part of the Little Atlas) see note to _73_ 27.

_78_ 4 _ombre trouee:_ 'broken shade'; the light found its way in places
through the foliage of the tree.

_78_ 8 _precisement:_ 'quite opportunely', cf. note to _83_ 5.

_78_ 15 _Comment voulez-vous ... ?_ 'how do you suppose ... ?'

_78_ 18 _Si maigre ... paraisse:_ cf. note to _4_ 6.

_78_ 21 _Demandez plutot:_ cf. _44_ 1.

_78_ 23 _mouci:_ for _monsieur._

_78_ 31 _coup d'oeil:_ 'looks'; cf. note to _54_ 12.--_ne feraient pas
tres bien:_ 'would not do very well.'

_79_ 1 _Tant que vous en voudrez:_ 'as many as you like', note the future.

_79_ 3 _a quelques kilometres:_ cf. note to _18_ 25.

_79_ 11 _pendus a:_ 'hanging from.'

_79_ 15 _une mesure a ble:_ 'a wheat measure', _une mesure de ble_ 'a
measure (full) of wheat.' Cf. _2_ 6.--_des Kabyles qui s'eventrent
autour:_ 'Kabyles slashing each other with knives (lit. cutting each other
open) around it'; cf. notes to _55_ 7 (_qui_), _7_ 2 (_se_), _1_ 6
(_autour_).

_79_ 16 _une joie:_ = _une joie!_ ...; cf. _un Teur!_ ... _32_ 4, and note
to _15_ 21.

_79_ 17 _se noyer:_ 'get drowned,' not 'drown himself.'

_79_ 20 _Par exemple:_ 'as luck would have it'; cf. note to _11_ 24.

_79_ 23 _tete de bedouin:_ 'Bedouin-like head'; cf. note to _1_ 5. This is
a good example of Daudet's skill in finding striking simularities: the
Bedouin (cf. note to _69_ 30) has a long, narrow head.

_79_ 27 _Toujours la folie orientale!_ 'his craze about things oriental
was still with him!'

_79_ 30 _tout en haut_ = _tout a fait en haut_, cf. note to _47_ 11.

_80_ 1 _jambes a noeuds:_