Transcriber’s note

Minor punctuation errors have been changed without notice. Inconsistencies in hyphenation have been standardized. Spelling has been retained as published.

Page number references in the index are as published in the original publication and have not been checked for accuracy in this eBook.

In the Index there is:

[sika], 20, 70, 124, 594

Page 594 does not exist.

There is also:

[Leopard], 3, 29, 33, 53, 56, 77, 78, 83, 95, 101, 110, 118, 164, 24

It is unclear what the page listed as “24” should be.

Both of these have been retained as in the original and not linked to any pages in this version.

The following printer errors have been changed.

CHANGEDFROM TO
Page [xiv]:“THE LAKE, DUBLIN 226” “THE LAKE, DUBLIN 225”
Page [xi]:“GENOOSTCHAP, AMSTERDAM” “GENOOTSCHAP, AMSTERDAM”
Page [29]:“was a mouflon, which” “was a moufflon, which”
Page [227]: “a yak, a bactrian camel” “a yak, a Bactrian camel”
Page [250]:“bactrian, 30, 84, 88” “Bactrian, 30, 84, 88”
Page [251]:“Empress Josephine, 3” “Empress Joséphine, 3”
Page [253]:“Luer, architect, 90” “Lüer, architect, 90”