Transcriber’s Note

The illustrations have been moved so that they do not break up paragraphs and are near the text they illustrate, thus the page number of the illustration might not match the page number in the List of Illustrations.

Pages which contain only an image have been left out in the pagination on the margin.

Several illustrations which were missing from the List of Illustrations have been added to it. They can be identified by the missing page numbers in the list.

The following changes have been made to the text:

	[page vii], “Parayaguan” changed to “Paraguayan”
	[page 2], “succesfully” changed to “successfully”
	[page 10], “Trindad” changed to “Trinidad”
	[page 14], period added after “cwt”
	[page 15], quote mark removed before “Monson’s”
	[page 34], quote mark added before “unparalleled”
	[page 59], quote mark added after “them.”
	[page 82], quote mark added after “it.”
	[page 83], quote mark added before “we”
	[page 86], quote mark added after “crazy!”
	[page 107], colon changed to period after “dews”
	[page 113], “is” changed to “it”
	[page 120], quote mark added after “matter....”
	[page 126], quote mark added after “Lloyd’s”
	[page 129], “o f” changed to “off”
	[page 146], quote mark added after “ALEXANDRA.”
	[page 173], single quote mark added after “Arberbrothok.”
	[page 177], quote mark added after “cry.”
	[page 182], “occuping” changed to “occupying”
	[page 183], “Frith” changed to “Firth”
	[page 207], quote mark added after “increased.”
	[page 210], “make” changed to “made”, quote mark added after [“skeel”]
	[page 217], quote mark added after “rescue!”
	[page 222], “seaman” changed to “seamen”
	[page 268], “mother” changed to “mothers”
	[page 283], quote mark added after “perish.”
	[page 298], “pasengers” changed to “passengers”
	[page 319], quote mark added after “3,317.”

Differences between the table of contents and the chapter summaries have not been corrected. Neither have variations in hyphenation been normalized.