Transcriber’s Note
The list of illustrations has been added in the electronic text.
The illustrations have been placed between paragraphs in the electronic text. The page they are printed on in the original edition can be seen in the list of illustrations.
Pages only containing images have been left out in the pagination on the margin.
The following typographical errors have been corrected:
| [page 82], period changed to comma (after “was”) | |
|---|---|
| [page 140], “Siberan” changed to “Siberian” |
Inconsistent hyphenation (e. g. “footsteps” and “foot-steps”, “innkeeper” and “inn-keeper”, “moonlight” and “moon-light”, “pigtails” and “pig-tails”, “wickerwork” and “wicker-work”), punctuation or italicizing has not been changed. The authors use both “Yengiz” and “Yenghiz”, “bakshish” and “baksheesh”, “pilaff” and “pillao”.