Transcriber’s Notes
Punctuation, hyphenation, and spelling were made consistent when a predominant preference was found in the original book; otherwise they were not changed.
Simple typographical errors were corrected; unbalanced quotation marks were remedied when the change was obvious, and otherwise left unbalanced.
Illustrations in this eBook have been positioned between paragraphs and outside quotations. In versions of this eBook that support hyperlinks, the page references in the List of Illustrations lead to the corresponding illustrations.
Portions of the captions of some illustrations were taken from the List of Illustrations.
The images have not been descreened because doing so lost too much detail.
The index was not checked for proper alphabetization or correct page references.
Page 18: The pronunciation mark above the first “o” in “ĭr-ṓ-kwoi´” was an inverted “T”, which was only visually approximated here.