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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.'