'knotty legs.'

_80_ 8 _etoupe:_ aptly characterizes the hair of a camel's hump.

_80_ 10 _Va te promener!_ cf. note to _48_ 11.

_80_ 13 _six cent mille dents:_ each Arab had 150 teeth! Which goes to
show that Daudet himself was born not far from Tarascon. But it is to be
remembered that _six cent mille_ is sometimes used merely to indicate a
very large number, like English "thousands of."

_80_ 14 _dut:_ cf. note to _67_ 7.

_80_ 19 _devant:_ _devant_ for _avant, auparavant,_ is obsolete except in
certain locutions such as _comme devant._

_80_ 25 _douar:_ 'douar,' an Arab village, composed of tents arranged with
more or less regularity.--_plaine du Cheliff:_ the broad part of the
Sheliff basin is in the half desert plateau between the Great Atlas and
the Little Atlas. The picture which follows is interesting, it is
overdrawn, however, since Algeria never was, and certainly is not today,
as bad as Daudet paints it.

_80_ 27 _se compliquent d':_ 'are complicated by (the addition of).'

_80_ 28 _Zouzou:_ military slang for _zouave._

_81_ 1 _le sergent La Ramee, le brigadier Pitou:_ popular names for the
French soldier, the English "Tommy Atkins."

_81_ 3 _su:_ 'known how,' 'been able.'

_81_ 5 _bachagas:_ 'bashagas' (Turkish for 'head agas' or 'heads of agas,'
cf. note to _82_ 5), native chiefs of districts.--_se mouchent ... Legion
d'honneur:_ 'gravely use their insignia of the Legion of Honor as
handkerchiefs.' Like much in "Tartarin de Tarascon," this detail was
extracted from the memorandum books which Daudet carried during his
Algerian travels, again in "Un Decore du 15 aout" ("Contes du lundi") he
declares that he repeatedly saw the _grand cordon_ used for the purpose
here mentioned. The Legion of Honor was established by Napoleon (then
first consul) in 1802. The insignia are a wide red ribbon from which is
suspended a five-pointed cross.

_81_ 7 _font batonner:_ cf. note to _7_ 25.

_81_ 8 _cadis:_ 'cadis,' judges under Mohammedan law.

_81_ 9 _tartufes du Coran et de la loi:_ 'hypocritical respecters of
Religion and Law.' _Tartufe_ is the hypocrite in Moliere's play of that
name, the word is now used as a common noun to designate a person who
pretends to be devout. The Coran (Koran) is the Holy Book of the
Mohammedans, containing the revelations of Mohammed.--_quinze aout:_
'August 15,' Napoleon's birthday, now superseded by July 14, the national
holiday, as the day on which the decorations of