ORIENTAL, CLASSICAL, AND GENERAL PRINTERS,
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Transcriber's Notes
Click on the map (facing p. 794) to view a high-resolution image.
Obvious punctuation errors repaired.
Inconsistent transcription and hyphenation of Chinese names have not been changed.
Hyphen removed: blood[-]thirsty (p. 704). gold[-]leaf (p. 769), gun[-]boat(s) (pp. 513, 706, 778), out[-]work (p. 510), pic[-]nic (p. 512), re[-]cature/ed/ing (pp. 582, 583, 590, 820), re[-]manned (p. 516), re[-]taken (p. 584), round[-]about (p. 479), treaty port (p. 445), under[-]weigh (p. 426).
Hyphen added: artillery[-]men (p. 452), breast[-]work (p. 749, 752), co[-]adjutor (p. 453), eye[-]witnesses (p. 741), half[-]way (p. 599), loop[-]hole (p. 608).
Manilla-man/men used consistently instead of two words (pp. 653, 655, 656) or one word (p. 591).
The following variants appear and have not been changed: firearms and fire-arms, li and le (although li is the more usual romanization of the Chinese measure of distance).
P. 443: "griped" changed to "gripped" (had barely gripped me).
P. 457: "poperty" changed to "property" (the letting of their property).
P. 460: "adminstrator" changed to "administrator" (neither a general nor an administrator).
P. 472: "and" added (between himself and a young Ti-ping soldier).
P. 477: "prefered" changed to "preferred" (the Ti-pings preferred that course).
PP. 484, 494: "Great Britian" changed to "Great Britain".
P. 488: "detaind" changed to "detained" (we were detained for a long while).
P. 508: "inadvertant" changed to "inadvertent" (inadvertent contradictions).
P. 513: extra "a" removed (desolating raid into a country).
P. 521: "infested" changed to "invested" (Soon-kong were also invested).
P. 549: "administratve" changed to "administrative" (the Government and administrative machinery).
P. 553: "simulocrum" changed to "simulacrum" (bolster up the tottering simulacrum).
P. 557: "5,20,72,358" changed to "52,072,358".
P. 565: Enumerated item "D" changed to "B".
P. 571: "oratical" changed to "oratorical" (At the oratorical display).
P. 571: "allevated" changed to "alleviated" (the distress could be alleviated).
PP. 580, 582, 601: "Sherard" changed to "Sherrard" (Captain Sherrard Osborne).
P. 605: "fusilade" changed to "fusillade" (kept up a fusillade).
P. 608: "Subsquently" changed to "Subsequently" (Subsquently other legions).
P. 613: "fourteeen" changed to "fourteen" (heads of fourteen women).
P. 640: "Europeons" changed to "Europeans" (the Europeans working).
PP. 655, 656, 660, 701: "Marcartney" changed to "Macartney" on the assumption that the person mentioned is Sir Halliday Macartney, KCMG, MD.
P. 658: "Manœuvring" changed to "Manœuvering" in contents.
P. 670: "become" changed to "became" (the bad news became confirmed).
P. 689: "threefrom" changed to "therefrom" (and deduct threrefrom).
P. 689: "agressive" changed to "aggressive" (aggressive bullying of the weak).
P. 697: "Major Bailey" changed to "Major Baily".
P. 705: "occurence" changed to "occurrence" (the occurrence of that tragedy).
P. 709: "began" changed to "begun" (for scarcely had Morton and his regiment begun to engage).
P. 713: "compensataion" changed to "compensation" (he would give the men compensation).
P. 727: "knowng" changed to "knowing" (knowing as I do).
P. 749: "deperate" changed to "desperate" (with desperate bravery).
P. 799: "belligerants" changed to "belligerents" (had been recognised as belligerents).
P. 805: added "in" (At the death of Alexander in).
P. 806: "Mauchuria" changed to "Manchuria".
P. 807: "territors" changed to "territories" (the territories of the Kirghiz).
P. 828: "somtimes" changed to "sometimes" (It was sometimes disobeyed).
P. 841 (last entry in table): "Imperilaists" changed to "Imperialists".