64 30 quelques pipes: 'a few pipefuls'--vous fera du bien: 'will do you good', contrast ferez bien without du, line 22.
65 4 jurons du cru: 'oaths of his native land', cf. note to 26 6.
65 5 là-has: 'over there' in Provence.
65 11 lui sauta aux yeux: cf. note to 12 25.
65 14 n'a ... depuis: 'has not been heard from for', lit. 'has not given of his news since.'
65 15 Qu'est devenu: 'what has become of?' lit. 'what has become?' Cf. note to 93 7.
65 23 Tombouctou: 'Timbuktu,' the most famous city of central Africa, a French possession since 1893, in Tartarin's time only three Europeans had ever reached it, and one of these was killed two days after he left the city.
65 24 garde: subjunctive.