Transcriber’s Note:Footnotes were renumbered sequentially and were moved to the end of the chapter. Final stops missing at the end of sentences and abbreviations were added. Duplicate words at line endings or page breaks were removed.Inconsistent hyphenation and misspelled words were not changed.At the end of the phrase “They took up comfortable positions on the cut-throat em,” the last portion of the word beginning with “em” is not printed in the original;“embankment”is assumed.The Arabic signature below thefrontispiece, الحاج عبداله, is a best guess, based on several interpretations of the original image.
Footnotes were renumbered sequentially and were moved to the end of the chapter. Final stops missing at the end of sentences and abbreviations were added. Duplicate words at line endings or page breaks were removed.
Inconsistent hyphenation and misspelled words were not changed.
At the end of the phrase “They took up comfortable positions on the cut-throat em,” the last portion of the word beginning with “em” is not printed in the original;“embankment”is assumed.