Ambiguous hyphens at the ends of lines were retained.
Illustrations have been repositioned to be within the pages referenced by the List of Illustrations, and the phrase “To face page” has been removed from their captions.
Redundant “CHAPTER” headings have been removed from this eBook.
Text uses both “dam” and “damn”.
The [List of Illustrations] listed the last two illustrations in reverse order (but with correct page numbers). They have been switched to the proper sequence in this eBook.
Page [141]: “hear it if killed” probably is a misprint for “hear if it killed”.
Page [174]: semi-colon added after “as it then was”.
Page [197]: “If I could have have laid” was printed that way.