Note 22 — BOOK V
Alexander Teixeira de Mattos translation
Chateaubriand writes, when describing his arrival at Jaffa, in the Itinéraire de Paris à Jerusalem:
"The wind fell, at mid-day. The calm continued for the rest of that day and was prolonged till the 29th [of September 1806]. We were boarded by three new passengers: two wagtails and a swallow."
And then he refers again to the swallows at Combourg in his childhood and to the swallows in America which, in their turn, reminded him of the Combourg swallows.—B.