TRANSCRIBER'S NOTE:
Inconsistencies in the author's use of hyphens have been left unchanged, as in the original text. Obvious printer errors have been corrected without comment. Otherwise, the author's original spelling, punctuation, hyphenation and use of accents have been left intact with the following exceptions:
Page 140: The word "to" was changed to "the" in the following phrase: "... who came off the ships were black with them,"
Page 141: The word "of" was added to "--- the peopling of these remote spots,"