37 27 Casbah: the citadel, 400 feet above the sea, crowning the hill on which the Moorish quarter (la ville haute 'the Upper City') is built--la rue Bab-Azoun: lower down, parallel to the shore, the most important street in Algiers.

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38 9 ILS: cf. pages 10-11.

38 18 Qués aco? Provençal for qu'est ce que c'est que cela? 'what's that?'--qu'est-ce que vous avez?' 'what's the matter with you?'

38 21 pourquoi faire? 'why?' 'what for?' cf. 49 1.--boun Diou: Provençal for bon Dieu.

38 31 tron de ler: more properly tron de l'er, a Provençal oath = tonnerre de l'air, 'thunder of the air!' A Provençal newspaper with the name Lou Tron de l'Er appeared in Marseilles in 1877-1878.

38 32 longtemps: cf. note to 40 17.--en: anticipates des pirates; cf. note to 32 5.

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