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 illustration have been left out in the pagination on the margin.

[An illustration] which was missing from the List of Illustrations has been added to it.

The following changes have been made to the text:

	[page iii], dash added after “Soaped Rails”
	[page iv], dash added after “The First Idea of the Atlantic Cable” and after [“The Employment of the Great Eastern”]
	[page vi], dash added after “Bold and Timid Lads” and after [“The ‘True Ring’ ”]
	[page 11], quote mark added after “petulantly.”
	[page 38], double “the” removed before “captain”
	[page 66], quote mark added before “I saw”
	[page 74], quote mark removed after “breadth.”
	[page 90], “suphuretted” changed to “sulphuretted”
	[page 91], period added after “hour”
	[page 133], dash removed after “that” and added before it
	[page 134], second quote mark added before “That”, [“The oysters”] and [“True,”]
	[page 153], comma removed after “lucky”
	[page 165], quote mark added after “stage.”
	[page 256], quote mark removed before “If”
	[page 299], quote mark removed before “Rover’s”
	[page 303], quote mark added before “new departure”
	[page 304], quote mark added after “sea.”
	[page 308], “vovage” changed to “voyage”
	[page 310], “Fiskernœs” changed to “Fiskernæs”