The following typographical errors/spelling errors have been corrected.
| Page | As printed | As corrected | Comment |
|---|---|---|---|
| [38] | be took by locusts! | be took by locusts!” | added closing quote |
| [42] | You remember D——? | You remember D——?” | added closing quote |
| [75] | regarding this affair, | regarding this affair. | changed comma to period |
| [86] | arives | arrives | corrected |
| [246] | Timbucto | Timbuctoo | changed to match other instances |
| [255] | Bodajor | Bojador | corrected |
| [287] | [54] | Footnote 54 was unnumbered and is provided | |
| [289] | (about £6,400 | (about £6,400) | added closing parenthesis |
| [416] | sink—holes | sink-holes | em-dash to hyphen |
| [485] | aniversaries | anniversaries | corrected |
| [495] | gunpowder on the floor fo | gunpowder on the floor of | corrected |
| [510] | number of 3,200,00 souls | number of 3,200,000 souls | added 0 |
| [91] | Monopolies, have led | Monopolies have led | removed extra comma |
| [602] | I did not like their demeanour | I did not like their demeanour. | added missing period |
| [603] | our goods are in their hands. | our goods are in their hands.” | added closing quote |
| [615] | own way too much, | own way too much. | changed comma to period |
| [622] | perpetually on, their guard | perpetually on their guard | removed spurious comma |
| [623] | mumber | number | corrected |
| [625] | the anker being a 16 gallon rundlet | the anker being a 16 gallon rundlet) | added closing parenthesis |
| [636] | Clerks, 329, 357, | Clerks, 329, 357 | removed comma at the end |
The following words appear as variants and have been left as printed:
| Ogowe (3) | Ogowé (11) |
| Filiaria perstans (1) | Filaria perstans (1) |
| mütterrecht (1) | mutterrecht(1) |
| Bassambri (1) | Basambri (1) |
The following words appear with and without hyphens. The various spellings are left as printed. Where the printed text introduces a hyphen at end-of-line, the hyphen is retained only if that variant is otherwise predominant.
| Scott-Elliott | Scott Elliot |
| Sea-shore | seashore |
| head-quarters | headquarters |
| a-shore | ashore |
| craw-fish | crawfish |
| fire-wood | firewood |
| ear-rings | earrings |
| head-man | headman |
| inter-marriage | intermarriage |
| ju-ju | juju |
| re-captured | recaptured |
| re-organized | reorganized |
| sand-flies | sandflies |
| middleman | middle-man |
| sandbanks | sand-banks |
| Winna-boes | Winnaboes |
| small-pox | smallpox |