P. 101-115.] NOTES. 169 



2. Cap Verden, Cape Verd islands, a group of islands lying in the At- 

 lantic west of Cape Verd, Africa. 



3. Torre del Greco, a town in Italy, on the bay of Naples. 



Page 106. i. Griff elkoralle. There seems to be no common name 

 in English corresponding to the German; lit., "style-coral." 



Page 108. i. Wohl kann es . . . durchgreifen, to be sure, it can, 

 by groping with its delicate tentacles, reach out over a small contiguous 

 space. 



2. bewohnen. See page 2, note 3. 



3. sind darauf angewiesen. See page 72, note 2. 



Page 109. i. zu unterscheidend is a kind of future passive parti- 

 ciple formed by using zu before the present active participle. It is always 

 used attributively and implies a possibility or a necessity. Trans., to be dis- 

 tinguished. 



Page 111. i. wenn, i.e. es ist md'glich,wenn ; cf. line i. 



2. unseres Erachtens, in our opinion. 



3. Malediven', Maldive islands, an archipelago in the Indian ocean, 

 southwest of Ceylon, comprising 17 atolls and 12,000 islets (popularly 

 estimated) of which 200 are inhabited. They form thirteen political divi- 

 sions and are ruled by a sultan tributary to the British government of Ceylon, 

 who is called the " Sultan of the thirteen Atolls and 12,000 Islands." 



I 4. gerecht werden signifies to do justice to, to take into account, and re- 

 quires the dative case. 



Page 112. i. Nach . . . zu, zu is an adverb here, repeating the 

 force of the preposition nach. Cf. page 69, note I. 



Page 113. i. Tropfsteine is the general word for cave-formations, 

 including both stalactites and stalagmites; it might be rendered here by 

 stalagmites, as stalactites are mentioned separately. 



2. Kuro-Schio, Kuroshiwo, the Black Current or Gulf Stream of Japan. 



3. nach . . . zu. See page 112, note i. 



Page 114. i. Angewiesen, must resort to importation from abroad; 

 see page 72, note 2. a. von . . . aus, cf. page 69, note i. 



Page 115. i. Lebenseinheit, lit., "life-unit." Translate here, uni- 

 form life. The meaning is : the fauna of the deep-sea was not originally 

 uniform, but differentiated, since the deep-sea was colonized by different 

 kinds of animals from the plant-producing regions. 



