In a few weeks more, they were again at home, among the old farms and woods of the Ile-de-France.

Moreover, the reward recorded in the King's privy-purse accounts "to hym that founde the new ile," and the wording, thrice repeated, of the second letters-patent, "the land and isles of late found by the said John," indicate that it was not at that time known whether the mainland of Cathay had been reached, or, as in the discoveries of Columbus, islands upon the coast of Asia.

And now I can look down in the gorge and see the water all white and snow and ice sickles and I am afraide to get lost in the caives and if I write all this in the bible that was preacher Elsons and tie it up safe in oilcloath and canvas and make a bote out of a chunk of wood and throw it in the river maybe it will get to one of the camps down there and a good man will find it and Ile give him half.

To the Oyster Beds, in the centre of the bay, on the Ile des Oiseaux.

The answer proves to have no relation whatever to the temperance-movement, as no better reason is given than that island(or, as it is absurdly written, ile and) water won't mix.

[Sidenote: 32] blacke, for Ile haue a suite of Sables.

You are naught, you are naught, Ile marke the Play.

Oh good Horatio, Ile take the Ghosts word for a thousand pound.

My Lord, he's going to his Mothers Closset: Behinde the Arras Ile conuey my selfe To heare the Processe.

Ile warrant shee'l tax him home, And as you said, and wisely was it said, 'Tis meete that some more audience then a Mother, Since Nature makes them partiall, should o're-heare The speech of vantage.

Fare you well my Liege, Ile call vpon

Then Ile looke vp, [Sidenote: pardon]

And now Ile doo't, and so he goes to Heauen,

Ile silence me e'ene heere: [Sidenote: euen heere,] Pray you be round with him.

Ile warrant you, feare me not.

Ile wait you,] Withdraw, I heare him comming.

Nay, then Ile set those to you that can speake.

Pot shots from a Grosse Ile kitchen.

Cinq enfants dans une ile.

Ile-de-France and Picardy became the theatre of war.

Burgundy was almost as discontented and troubled as Ile-de-France.

The preceding year Admiral d'Orves had appeared on the Coromandel coast with a squadron; the Sultan had sent to meet him, urging him to land and attack Madras, left defenceless; the admiral refused to risk a single vessel or land a single man, and he returned without striking a blow to Ile-de-France.

Leaving the Cape free from attack, he had joined, off Ile-de-France, Admiral d'Orves, who was ill and at death's door.

Suffren informed the nabob that M. de Bussy- Castelnau, but lately the faithful lieutenant of Dupleix and the continuer of his victories, had just been sent to India with the title of commander-in-chief; he was already at Ile de France, and was bringing some troops.

His officers urged him to go to Bourbon or Ile-de-France for the necessary supplies and for a good port to shelter his damaged ships.