TRANSCRIBER'S NOTES:
A number of words in this book have both hyphenated and non-hyphenated variants. For the words with both variants present the one more used has been kept.
Obvious punctuation and other printing errors have been corrected.
The book cover was modified by the Transcriber and has been put in the public domain.
The Transcriber would like to point out to what are considered a couple of translation inaccuracies from the original Italian language version.
In page [59] the text reads:
"I know of no marsh capable of provoking in human pulses a fever more violent that that which at times steals up to us from the shadows of a silent canal."
While in the Italian edition (Publisher: Milano Fratelli Treves; year: 1900), the text reads:
"Io non conosco palude capace di provocare in polsi umani una febbre più violenta di quella che sentimmo talvolta venire verso di noi all'improvviso dall'ombra di un canale taciturno."
The Transcriber thinks a more adequate translation would be: