CUPPLES & LEON COMPANY, Publishers New York
Transcriber's Note: A list of illustrations, which was not present in the original edition, has been created for this electronic text. In addition, the following typographical errors present in the original print edition have been corrected.
In Chapter V, "shaking his first" was changed to "shaking his fist".
In Chapter VIII, "He knew it would take him several years engineer set in operation the powerful pumps, to be a capable one, but he determined to get a good ground work or the higher branches of it, and so he listened carfully to all that Mr. Weatherby told him." was changed to "He knew it would take him several years to be a capable one, but he determined to get a good ground work or the higher branches of it, and so he listened carefully to all that Mr. Weatherby told him."
In Chapter XI, a missing quotation mark was added after "I never put it there".
In Chapter XVI, "let him have the whole businesss" was changed to "let him have the whole business".
In Chapter XVII, "the Sanlons wanted to begin their trip" was changed to "the Scanlons wanted to begin their trip".
In Chapter XVIII, "the other vessed" was changed to "the other vessel".
In Chapter XX, an extraneous quotation mark was removed after "No, sir".