What does the second property in Halmos definition of continuation mean?

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Halmos defines in his book "Naive Set Theory" that a well-ordered set A is a continuation of a well-ordered set B if

  1. B is a subset of A
  2. B is an initial segmemt of A
  3. the ordering of the elememts in B is the same as the ordering in A.

I do not understand what he means with the second property. Is it that B is an initial segment of some element in A?