It was to the sound of this splendid blast that the intrepid Tartarin
Tarasco of Tarascon embarked for the land of lions.




EPISODE THE SECOND
AMONG "THE TURKS"



I.
The Passage -- The Five Positions of the Fez --
The Third Evening Out -- Mercy upon us!


JOYFUL would I be, my dear readers, if I were a painter -- a great
artist, I mean -- in order to set under your eyes, at the head of this
second episode, the various positions taken by Tartarin's red cap in
the three days' passage it made on board of the Zouave, between
France and Algeria.

First would I show you it at the steaming out, upon deck, arrogant
and heroic as it was, forming a glory round that handsome
Tarasconian head. Next would I show you it at the harbour-mouth,
when the bark began to caper upon the waves; I would depict it for
you all of a quake in astonishment, and as though already
experiencing the preliminary qualms of sea-sickness. Then, in the
Gulf of the Lion, proportionably to the nearing the open sea, where