Transcribers' Note
Punctuation, hyphenation, and spelling were made consistent when a predominant preference was found in this book; otherwise they were not changed.
Simple typographical errors were corrected; occasional unpaired quotation marks were retained.
Ambiguous hyphens at the ends of lines were retained.
Page 26: "estray" was printed that way.
Page 61: "rendered the greater? is" was printed with a lower-case "is".
Page 62: "calvacade" was printed that way.
Page 65: "wofully" was printed that way.
Page 70: "tomahawk griped in his hand" probably is a misprint for "gripped"; "With scarcely the slightest plash" probably is a misprint for "splash".
Page 159: Closing quotation mark added after 'my few relatives.'
Page 172: "warfare" was misprinted as "war-ware" when split across two lines, and has been changed here.
Page 181: "retrogade" appears to be a misprint for "retrograde".
Page 188: "give it the reader" may be missing a "to".
Page 212: "rallied their companion" may be a misprint for "railed"; closing quotation mark added after 'by it in the night.'
The page numbers of the advertisements originally were printed starting with "1", but to avoid confusion with the page numbers of the rest of the book, have been modified here to begin at "301".