Dialectical, unusual and archaic spellings have not been corrected. There are also a few spellings which appear to be poetic license. Two errors were corrected (the correction is in square brackets):

• P. 24 But Blood belonged to ninty-four[ninety-four],
• P. 44 Blood made an acurate[accurate] survey

The cover was produced by the transcriber and is hereby placed in the public domain.

As the transcriber, I feel moved to comment that I was somewhat offended by the implicit bigotry of the author towards Africans, however I took it as a sign of the times (when the poem was written) rather than intentional racial slurs.