Transcriber’s noteFootnotes were renumbered and moved to the end of this this book. An alphabetic jump table was added to the index. Pagenumbers in the index with a “n.” after it, link directly to the footnote originally on that page. Links might not work in some reading devices.Some minor corrections were made without note, such as missing punctuation and missing page numbers in the index. Also the following corrections were made, on page13 “probaby” changed to “probably” (probably very much earlier)93 “critisism” changed to “criticism” (incapable of comparison and criticism)224 “shephered” changed to “shepherd” (and a shepherd, sleeping by the grave of Orpheus)348 “McDougal” changed to “McDougall” (See also Hose and McDougall)350 “unscupulousness” changed to “unscrupulousness” (medicine-man’s unscrupulousness)350 “Wiedermann” changed to “Wiedemann” (Wiedemann on Religion of Ancient Egyptian).Otherwise the original was preserved, including inconsistent spelling, hyphenation, capitalization, and possible errors in foreign words. Additional: The names of some of the quoted authors were spelled inconsistently in the original, for example Codrington was spelled most of the time with two d’s. Also the name of Vilhjálmur Stefánsson (who was born as William Stephenson) was spelled in several different ways. These have not been corrected. The also mentioned Stevenson is somebody else. Also: The index has not been checked for errors, besides the ones in the list above.
Transcriber’s note
Footnotes were renumbered and moved to the end of this this book. An alphabetic jump table was added to the index. Pagenumbers in the index with a “n.” after it, link directly to the footnote originally on that page. Links might not work in some reading devices.
Some minor corrections were made without note, such as missing punctuation and missing page numbers in the index. Also the following corrections were made, on page13 “probaby” changed to “probably” (probably very much earlier)93 “critisism” changed to “criticism” (incapable of comparison and criticism)224 “shephered” changed to “shepherd” (and a shepherd, sleeping by the grave of Orpheus)348 “McDougal” changed to “McDougall” (See also Hose and McDougall)350 “unscupulousness” changed to “unscrupulousness” (medicine-man’s unscrupulousness)350 “Wiedermann” changed to “Wiedemann” (Wiedemann on Religion of Ancient Egyptian).
Otherwise the original was preserved, including inconsistent spelling, hyphenation, capitalization, and possible errors in foreign words. Additional: The names of some of the quoted authors were spelled inconsistently in the original, for example Codrington was spelled most of the time with two d’s. Also the name of Vilhjálmur Stefánsson (who was born as William Stephenson) was spelled in several different ways. These have not been corrected. The also mentioned Stevenson is somebody else. Also: The index has not been checked for errors, besides the ones in the list above.