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 iv], “Portugese” changed to “Portuguese” (three times) | |
|---|---|
| [page 7], “sudddenly” changed to “suddenly” | |
| [page 21], comma changed to period after “fleet” | |
| [page 27], “armanent” changed to “armament” | |
| [page 41], double quote changed to single quote after “them.” | |
| [page 60], “were” changed to “where” | |
| [page 134], “Vere” changed to “Veer” | |
| [page 201], period added after “northward” | |
| [page 212], quote mark added after “putrid.” | |
| [page 229], prime added after “43”, prime changed to double prime after “15” | |
| [page 246], quote mark added before “It” | |
| [page 249], quote mark added after “superb.” | |
| [page 251], quote mark added after “land.” | |
| [page 271], quote mark added after “ice.” | |
| [page 275], comma changed to period after “whales” | |
| [page 299], quote mark removed before “On” | |
| [page 310], quote mark added after “fate!” | |
| [page 319], double “to” removed |
Differences between the table of contents and the chapter summaries have not been corrected. Neither have variations in hyphenation been normalized.