93 8 Ne nous quittons plus: 'let us part no more' Cf. note to 7 2.
93 15 s'élançant a corps perdu: 'hurling himself headlong,' desperately.
93 16 de conserve: 'in consort' (with the captain's row boat). Conserve in the sense of 'the action of preserving' survives only in this nautical expression, naviguer de conserve.--'to sail in consort' (used of ships which sail together so as to help one another).
93 18 col: = cou, used in this sense only in certain fixed expressions, ordinarily = 'collar.'--en éperon de trirème: 'like (cf. note to 5 20) the beak of a trireme.' Eperon ordinarily means 'spur.' The ancient trireme was a galley with three banks of oars.
93 19 viennent ensemble se ranger: 'come to draw up together,' 'draw up together', cf. 55 8.--aux flancs du: 'alongside.' Note the plural flancs, cf. à ses côtés 37 26.
93 22 à mon bord: 'aboard.' A bord d'un vaisseau = 'on board a ship.'
93 23 j'en ... zoologique: 'I will present him to the Zoological Garden.'
93 29 fût: subjunctive with non pas que.
93 33 afficher: 'make a show of', lit. 'to post'(affiches 'placards')