Transcriber’s Notes
In a few cases, obvious errors or omissions in punctuation were corrected.
[Page 21]: “Portuguese War Depatment” changed to “Portuguese War Department”
[Page 24]: “hitherto suppoed to” changed to “hitherto supposed to”
[Page 38]: “been bought themelves” changed to “been bought themselves”
[Page 47]: “Under similiar circumstances” changed to “Under similar circumstances”