the Legion of Honor are
distributed. Read "Un Decore du quinze aout," referred to in note to _81_
5

_81_ 12 _kousskouss au sucre_: 'sweetened couscous'--_caids_ 'caids,'
Mohammedan military chiefs.

_81_ 13 _un general Yusuf quelconque_81_. 'some General Yusuf or other'
Joseph Vantini (1810-1866), of Italian birth, was a French officer who
played an active part in the conquest of Algeria _Yusuf_ (in French
spelling, _Yousouf_) is the Arabic form of the name Joseph.

_81_ 19 _maquis_: ordinarily used only of the Corsican 'maquis', extensive
areas overgrown with an almost impenetrable tangle of brushwood
--_le grenier de la France_: the words of the enthusiastic promoters of
Algerian colonization Algeria's famous grain producing region does not
extend farther inland than one hundred miles, and does not include the
part which Tartarin was now traversing.

_81_ 25 _sauterelles enragees_ cf. note to _24_ 23.--_mangent jusqu'aux
rideaux_ 'eat the very curtains', cf._85_ 17.

_81_ 26 _en train de boire_ 'drinking', cf. note to _18_ 4.

_81_ 30 _tout entier a_ 'engrossed in'.

_81_ 31 _allait droit devant lui_ 'went straight ahead'.

_82_ 3 _dans les tribus_: 'in the (camps of the) tribes'.

_82_ 5 _agas_: 'agas' The _aga_ was formerly a great military chief in

Turkey, now the title is merely one of respect given to village magnates.

_82_ 6 _narghiles etc_ i.e. articles of the Orient and of the Occident.

_82_ 1 _Smyrne_: 'Smyrna,' important seaport in Asiatic Turkey, on the
Aegean Sea, famous for its rugs and silks--_lampes-moderateur_ more
precisely _lampes a moderateur_, 'moderator lamps' A moderator is an
instrument for governing the movement of machines, here, "a mechanical
contrivance by which the passage of the oil from the reservoir to the
burner is regulated or moderated to a uniform flow" (Oxford Dict).

_82_ 8 _sequins_: 'sequins,' an old gold coin of variable value, usually
worth about $2 25, formerly issued by the Venetian republic (_zecchino_)
and largely used in the Levant.

_82_ 9 _pendules a sujets, style Louis-Philippe_ 'clocks adorned with
figures in the Louis Philippe style' Louis Philippe was king of France
from 1830 to 1848.

_82_ 10 _diffas_: 'diffas,' among the Arabs of Africa receptions and
feasts offered to men of rank The fantasia is an Arab equestrian
Exhibition.

_82_ 11 _goums_ 'goums,' armed contingents supplied by Algerian tribes
for the French army, and commanded by Fren