Punctuation, hyphenation, and spelling were made consistent when a predominant preference was found in this book; otherwise they were not changed.
Words spelled differently in quoted passages than in the author’s own text have not been changed.
Simple typographical errors were silently corrected; occasional unbalanced quotation marks retained.
[Chapter II’s] footnotes originally skipped number “3”. The omission is not apparent in this eBook, in which all footnotes are in a single ascending sequence.
Ambiguous hyphens at the ends of lines were retained.
For consistency, all occurrences of “bow-foremost” and “stern-foremost” are hyphenated in this eBook.
Index not checked for proper alphabetization or correct page references.