Crossword-Solution: PILOTES 7 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 9

Pilotes ou pêcheurs, ils avaient toujours l’air de guetter au loin, de veiller sur le large; en la croisant, ils lui disaient bonjour.

During our passage we had an abundance of fish, such as _orades_, mackerel, and _pilotes_, the latter similar to herrings, and found about certain planks covered with _pousle-pieds_, a kind of shell-fish attaching itself thereto, and growing there gradually.

Les pilotes doivent encore observer, lorsque le vent suffit, de diriger leur route de manière à présenter le moins de résistance possible à l'effort des eaux.

The French still call the mates of merchant vessels--that is, the officers who watch about, take charge of the deck--_pilotes_, and this designation is not impossibly reserved to them as representing the _pilote hauturier_ of former times, the scientific guide of ships _dans la haute mer_, as distinguished from the _pilote côtier_, who simply hugged the shore.

May 17.--We rose at five in the morning, desirous to secure a cool walk to the Tour des Pilotes, a signal post on the high cape above Cette.