The Frontispiece ("Christy seized him...") has been placed between the Preface and the [Table of Contents].
Invisible punctuation has been silently supplied, and superfluous quotation marks removed. Inconsistent hyphenation has been retained. Other typographical errors are marked in the text with mouse-hover popups. The spelling "cockswain" is standard for this text. The variation between "knots" and "knots an hour" is as in the original.