Punctuation, hyphenation, and spelling were made consistent when a predominant preference was found in this book; otherwise they were not changed.
Simple typographical errors were corrected; occasional unpaired quotation marks were retained.
Ambiguous hyphens at the ends of lines were retained.
Page [26]: "estray" was printed that way.
Page [61]: "rendered the greater? is" was printed with a lower-case "is".
Page [62]: "calvacade" was printed that way.
Page [65]: "wofully" was printed that way.
Page [70]: "tomahawk griped in his hand" probably is a misprint for "gripped"; "With scarcely the slightest plash" probably is a misprint for "splash".
Page [159]: Closing quotation mark added after 'my few relatives.'
Page [172]: "warfare" was misprinted as "war-ware" when split across two lines, and has been changed here.