Chapter XXVII: Part III: Dictionaries: I. Tamil-English--II. English-Tamil

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TRANSCRIBER’S NOTES

Page 42: missing apostrophe added in “it’s only a carpet-snake”.

Page 81: duplicate “the” removed from “has the effect of softening”

Page 121: duplicate “the” removed from “to the commerce of the”

Page 129: missing period added after “cannot be imagined”.

Page 228: missing opening quote added to the quotation beginning with “Why--walk”.

Page 234: stray period removed from “at the rate”.

Index, page 343: stray punctuation removed for entry “richest mine...”

Index, page 344: period corrected to comma for entry “Horses, in the Bush”.

Advertisements: missing punctuation added.

Inverted asterisms were printed in the original edition of the book. They have been represented as upright asterisms (⁂) in this edition for technical reasons.

All other spelling and grammatical errors, as well as inconsistencies in hyphenation, left unchanged.