Punctuation and spelling were made consistent when a predominant preference was found in this book; otherwise they were not changed. Possibly inconsistent spellings of names and place-names have been retained.
Simple typographical errors were corrected; occasional unbalanced quotation marks retained.
Inconsistent hyphenation and ambiguous hyphens at the ends of lines were retained.
"The Chochiang-Koria Line" is spelled that way throughout the book.
Page 195: "Great Southern Port" was printed as "Greatern"; changed here.
Page 247: "mileage" was printed as "milage"; changed here.
Transcriber split the full Map of China into quadrants for better readability. If your reading device cannot display it directly, you will find the full-size version at Project Gutenberg:
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