_le golfe d'Otrante_, between Italy and Albania.
_au Phare_: it is not clear what lighthouse is intended.
_une Tarentaise_, woman of Tarentum, in South Italy.
_Gaëte_, English Gaeta, a bay and town on the west coast of Italy, north
of Naples.
L. 47. The historical allusion here is not clear. Prince Eugene
of Savoy, Marlborough's colleague, and Cardinal Mazarin were not
contemporaries.
_Livourne_, Leghorn. _Spinola_: the reference may or may not be to the
famous Imperialist general in the Thirty Years War.
_prames_, big flat-bottomed boats, capable of carrying cannon, and used
for coast defence.
_Notre-Dame de la Garde_, a sanctuary at Marseilles.
_Palma_, a town in Majorca.