Transcriber's Notes:
Page [49]: One instance of Govinda and one instance of Gobinda: discrepancy retained
Page [53]: Hindusthani sic ("Hindustani" in Footnote 50.)
Page [137]: Closing quotes added after "...Singha;"
Page [179]: appetities amended to appetites
Page [196]: muscial amended to musical
Page [219]: Himayalas amended to Himalayas
Page [235]: cardamum sic
Page [236]: casuarianas amended to casuarinas
Page [270]: cooes sic
Advertisements at close of book (unpaginated): transcendently sic and Gitangali sic
Footnote 50 had a double reference in the original text, which has been retained here.
Small discrepancies such as capitalisation between the List of Illustrations and the illustration captions have been retained.
Inconsistent hyphenation has been retained.
Inconsistent spelling of colours/colors has been retained.
Sanskrit and Sanscrit are used interchangeably in the original.