TRANSCRIBER’S NOTES

  1. Both words ‘ranche’ and ‘rancho’ appear numerous times in the text. Did not change either.
  2. Added the word ‘less’ between the words ‘a’ and ‘exposed’ on p. [169].
  3. Changed ‘did’ to ‘died’ on p. [209].
  4. Changed ‘Probable’ to ‘Probably’ on p. [228].
  5. Changed ‘me’ to ‘himself’ on p. [311].
  6. Changed ‘recurred’ to ‘occurred’ on p. [331].
  7. Silently corrected typographical errors.
  8. Retained anachronistic and non-standard spellings as printed.