Transcriber’s Note

The illustrations have been moved so that they do not break up paragraphs and are near the text they illustrate, thus the page number of the illustration might not match the page number in the List of Illustrations.

Pages which contain only an image have been left out in the pagination on the margin.

Several illustrations which were missing from the List of Illustrations have been added to it. They can be identified by the missing page numbers in the list.

The following changes have been made to the text:

	[page 10], period and quote mark added after “came”
	[page 13], “be” added before “interesting”
	[page 42], “Shakspeare” changed to “Shakespeare”
	[page 44], quote mark added before “manned”
	[page 50], quote mark added after “immediately.”
	[page 59], quote mark removed after “steam.”
	[page 60], period changed to comma after “survivors”
	[page 63], quote mark added after “water;”
	[page 101], “It” changed to “Its”
	[page 117], comma changed to colon after “Drawbacks”
	[page 119], period added after “O”
	[page 123], “It” changed to “Its”
	[page 129], “Portugese” changed to “Portuguese”
	[page 136], “via” changed to “viâ”
	[page 146], quote mark removed after “elsewhere.”
	[page 147], “interspered” changed to “interspersed”
	[page 155], comma changed to closing parenthesis after “Australia”
	[page 159], comma changed to period after “creeks”
	[page 175], colon added after “Bermuda”
	[page 181], “sweatmeats” changed to “sweetmeats”
	[page 189], comma added after “too”
	[page 219], period added after “tons”
	[page 236], “broad” changed to “board”
	[page 277], quote mark added after “benevolence,”
	[page 282], quote mark added after “England,”
	[page 293], period added after “up”
	[page 302], quote mark added after “complement,”
	[page 313], quote mark added after “blood.”
	[page 317], quote mark removed before “Two”

Differences between the table of contents and the chapter summaries have not been corrected. Neither have variations in hyphenation been normalized.