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64-10: =Varsovia=: _Warsaw_, the largest city and former capital of
Poland.

64-11: =sin perjuicio de que... saliese=: _without preventing his
setting out_.

64-12: =a las pocas horas de haber echado a andar=: _a few hours
after starting_. Cf. note _a la media hora_, p. 59, 4. _Echar a_,
followed by an infinitive, means to begin, to set about. Hence _echar a
andar_, to begin to march or go, etc.

64-13: =de lo mas singular=: an idiomatic substitution of the
singular for the plural.

65-1: =aqui=: after _de aqui (hence)_ supply some verb like
_resulto_.