Punctuation, hyphenation, and spelling were made consistent when a predominant preference was found in this book; otherwise they were not changed.

Simple typographical errors were corrected; occasional unbalanced quotation marks retained.

Ambiguous hyphens at the ends of lines were retained.

In the original book, each chapter began with a hemi-title page that contained an illustration, and an identical chapter heading, sometimes with an illustration, on the next page. In some versions of this eBook, the second occurrences of those chapter headings have been omitted.

Many of the illustrations in the original book were placed in the margins, and some of them partly-wrapped around the text. These effects could not be replicated, so, in some versions of this eBook, some of the illustrations nest within the text; in other versions, all of the illustrations appear between paragraphs of the text.

“Winnenap´” was printed with the trailing acute accent mark.