Transcriber's Notes
Hyphenation, punctuation, and spelling standardized when a predominant preference was found in this book; otherwise unchanged. Simple typographical errors remedied; most retained.
Chapter XXVI [sub-heading] changed to mixed-case small-caps for consistency with all the other Chapter sub-headings.
Pages [213-215] (Chapter XVII, paragraph 4, which begins "Lieutenant Collins was born in Hillsboro, Ohio,"): the paragraph contains unbalanced double-quotation marks, which have been retained.
Most illustrations have been moved slightly from their original positions.