Transcriber’s NotesThe cover image was created by the transcriber and is dedicated without reservation to the public domain.Illustrations that were located mid-paragraph in the original work were moved below the including paragraph.Page numbers in the illustration captions and table of contents are page numbers in the original work.This text has been preserved as in the original work, including archaic and inconsistent spelling, punctuation and grammar, except as noted below. All quotation marks are preserved as printed.Obvious printer’s errors have been silently corrected.Page 130: ‘chapparalls’ changed to ‘chaparalls’.Page 136: ‘measley’ changed to ‘measly’.Page 165: ‘devlish’ changed to ‘devilish’.Page 192: ‘peka’ possibly a coined word.Page 205: ‘Azotic’ not known in this context. Perhaps this should be ‘Aztec’.
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