Minor punctuation errors have been corrected.

Hyphen and accent usage has been made consistent.

There was one instance in which a double quotation mark was unpaired.

On page [99], there is the following:

“... they dressed her in her sacred cotton robes of ceremonial, embroidered elaborately, and adorned her ...”

There may be a word missing following ‘ceremonial’ but as there is no way to determine what it might be, it is preserved as printed.

The following amendments have been made:

Page [42]—comform amended to conform—... and they taught him how to conform himself to it, ...

Page [107], footnote [8]—explaned amended to explained—This, it may be explained, ...

Page [321]—croned amended to crooned—“Foolish, foolish boys!” crooned the old grandmother.