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 tête de bédouin: 'Bedouin-like head'; cf. note to 1 5. This is a good example of Daudet's skill in finding striking simularities: the Bédouin (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 à fait en haut, cf. note to 47 11.
80 1 jambes à noeuds: 'knotty legs.'
80 8 étoupe: aptly characterizes the hair of a camel's hump.