Obvious punctuation and spelling errors repaired.

In ambiguous cases, the text has been left as it appears in the original book. In particular, many mismatched quotation marks, endquote missing puctuation, wrongspaced quotes, ect., have not been changed.

Inconsistent hyphenation has been repaired.

quasiwar changed to quasi-war.

Seacoast changed to sea-coast.

mid-shipman’s changed to midshipman’s.

mid-day changed to midday.

bow-chaser changed to bowchaser.

mizzenmast changed to mizzen-mast.