Transcriber’s Notes
Punctuation, hyphenation, and spelling were made consistent when a predominant preference was found in the original book; otherwise they were not changed.
Simple typographical errors were corrected; unbalanced quotation marks were remedied when the change was obvious, and otherwise left unbalanced.
Illustrations in this eBook have been positioned between paragraphs and outside quotations.
Original text used “steam-ship” and “steamship”; both retained here.
Original text used “Mc” and “M‘” (the curving left single quote was used because it looks similar to a superscript “c”). In this ebook, “Mc” is used for all of them.