Transcriber's Notes:
Some words are apparently spelled to reflect the Scottish dialect.
[Page vi:]
[Bands p aying God save the King--Edward the--? 63-74]
Typo: p aying changed to playing.
[Page 14]:
[there that set his neighbours and my neice and]
Typo: neice changed to niece.
[Page 66]:
[card! To meet their Royal Hignesses, the Prince and]
Typo: Hignesses changed to Highnesses.
[Page 115]:
[old trail--the Midlands to Indiar, and Indiar to the Midlands, with bwidge between.]
Possible typo: 'bwidge'. I believe it was intentional. Unchanged.
[Page 121]: [have, between a thoroughbred's and a man's. They were yellowish beards and black faces and black ends to their]
Typo: Changed were to wore.
[Page 145]:
[and rather monkeyish in apperance; still, some were not]
Typo: Changed apperance to appearance.
[Page 158]:
[lean out and see our little narrow guage train crawling]
Typo: Changed guage to gauge.
[Page 171]:
[pageants, elephant kedar camps, and the right royal enterments]
Typo: Changed enterments to entertainments.
[Page 173]:
[that these early forms of various races are not mor often]
Typo: Changed mor to more.
[Page 199]:
[house, or if you exhibit any symptons of plauge or deadly]
Typo: plauge changed to plague.
Typo: symptons changed to symptoms.
[Page 201]:
[about twenty-five to thirty feet over all, with pratically flat]
Typo: Changed pratically to practically.
[Page 202]:
[here is considerd to be very damping.]
Possible typo: 'considerd'. Unchanged as the author uses this form reasonably often.
[Page 213]:
[bar across its mouth, and to to the right views of the]
Double word: 'to to' changed to single 'to'.
[Page 214]:
[edge of the receeding wave, then turned lavender laced]
Possible typo: 'receeding'. Unchanged.
[Page 216]:
[floor, overhead a domed roof with chrystal chandeliers, and smaller crystal lights round the sides.]
Typo: Chrystal left unchanged as it is used elsewhere.
[Page 219]:
[three deep to see the Sahib get sand of his feet, extremely]
Typo: Changed of to off.
[Page 223]:
[some out-of-the-way Highland or Norwegian loch, with on boat on it, and the trout rising in the middle.]
Typo: Changed on to one.
[Page 256]:
[jungle comes the sound of Burmese music. A Pwe is]
Changed Pwe to Pwé for consistency.
[Page 268]:
[them; a _reductio ad absuurdum_, from the point of view of]
Typo: Changed absuurdum to absurdum.
[Page 273]:
[it on as they came out, modesly and neatly. The women]
Typo: Changed modesly to modestly.
[Page 277]:
[As we were talking, the Rock pilot came alonside in a]
Typo: Changed alonside to alongside.
[Page 279]:
[wordly desires[1]. So it was in the earliest Scottish Church;]
Typo: Changed wordly to worldly.
[Page 307]:
[with elephant and finish up with mouse-deer and button-quail.]
Typo: Changed qauil to quail.
[Page 314]:
[along the top of the river bank. The arrangemant might]
Typo: Changed arrangemant to arrangement.
[Page 327]:
[another bullock-cart, with an older Burman whose face was a delight--so wrinked, and wreathed with smiles. I]
Typo: Changed wrinked to wrinkled.
[Page 328]:
[on it was a great space of eongealed blood just where]
Typo: Changed eongealed to congealed.
[Page 341]:
[vividly as a few notes of an air, the rythm of some folk-song--a]
Typo: Changed rythm to rhythm.
[Page 348]:
[to ninty feet at a guess, and fastened snake rings on with]
Possible typo: Ninty may have been an old spelling for ninety.
Unchanged.
[Page 358]:
[But where the dead leaf fell, their did it rest.">[
Incorrect use of their. Changed to there.
Various:
Some a.m. are small capped, others are not.
Changed all to small capped A.M. to be consistent.
Hyphenation--words occur both ways in the original. Unchanged.
- afterglow/after-glow
- barefooted/bare-footed
- bathrooms/bath-rooms
- dreamlike/dream-like
- eyelashes/eye-lashes
- forefathers/fore-fathers
- humdrum/hum-drum
- lamplight/lamp-light
- lamplit/lamp-lit
- midday/mid-day
- password/pass-word
- pothole/pot-hole
- riverside/river-side
- sandbank/sand-bank
- searchlight/search-light
- splashboard/splash-board
- sunlit/sun-lit
- waterfowl/water-fowl
- womenfolk/women-folk
Words spelled 2 ways.
- crusies/cruisies
- crystal/chrystal
- pandal/pandol
- paroquet/parroquet
- Phoungie/Phunghi/Phoungyi