Transcriber’s Note:
Minor punctuation errors (e.g. periods instead of commas) have been corrected without note. Inconsistent hyphenation and capitalization have not been corrected.
Illustrations have been moved to directly after the corresponding paragraph. An advertisement has been removed from the beginning of the book, as there is an identical one at the end, and a duplicate title page has been removed from between the introduction and the beginning of Chapter I.
The following corrections were made to the text:
[p. 32]: extra hyphen removed (Tommy-Five-Canoes to Tommy Five-Canoes)
[p. 152]: Jar to Jaar (Nieuw Jaar)
[p. 159]: He to he (he seized a silver bowl)
[p. 165]: thout to thou (canst thou not me trust)
[p. 166]: missing close quote added (“There was no fun in calling on a parcel of old vrouws,”)
[p. 174]: extra close quote removed (lash of the slave-whip.)