TRANSCRIBER’S NOTE

Punctuation, and spacing in abbreviations and initials, were normalized.

Variations in hyphenation were maintained.

The placement of the advertising material was re-ordered to occur after the title page.

Spelling has been maintained, with the exception of the following typographical or printers’ errors:

Page 5: “resistence” was changed to “resistance”.

Page 11: “collossus” was changed to “colossus”.

Page 12: “occurrance” was changed to “occurrence”.

Page 17: “or untanned deer-skin” was changed to “of untanned deer-skin”.

Pages 17, 20: “Bayou Bienvenu” was changed to “Bayou Bienvenue”.