TRANSCRIBER’S NOTE
Punctuation has been normalized.
Variations in spelling and hyphenation, as well as some instances of obsolete spelling (such as “cloathing,” “centinel,” etc.) were maintained.
The following typographical or printers’ errors have been corrected:
Page 9: “Touissant” changed to “Toussaint”
Page 9: “familiary” changed to “familiarity”
Page 18: “mulattœs” harmonized to “mulattos”
Page 21: “acknowlege” changed to “acknowledge”
Page 21: “sa” changed to “as”