Transcriber’s Note

The table of contents has been added to the electronic version.

The following changes have been made to the text:

[page 16], “o” changed to “of”
[page 17], period changed to comma after “released”
[page 23], “reconnoisance” changed to “reconnoissance”
[page 118], “ever” changed to “over”
[page 120], “provisons” changed to “provisions”
[page 273], “Grifiths” changed to “Griffiths”
[page 322], “innumnerable” changed to “innumerable”
[page 353], period changed to comma after “Gazoo”
[page 372], “were” changed to “where”
[page 377-378], “aide-camp” changed to “aide-de-camp”

Variations in hyphenation (e.g. “breakdown”, “break-down”; “waterproof”, “water-proof”) have not been changed.