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.
Text sometimes uses colons where current convention is to use semi-colons.
The index was not checked for proper alphabetization or correct page references.
Page 9: The Austro-Prussian War began in 1866, not in 1860. The error has not been corrected here.
Page 43: “Savanah” was printed that way.
Page 86: “Buluwayo” was printed that way.