Archaic, obsolete and inconsistent spellings are maintained from the original book. There were no obvious misspellings. No changes were made to the text with the following exceptions:

• some footnotes inserted to comment about transliterations,
• for words in the Arabic alphabet (including Arabic, Persian, Sindhi, etc.) or Devangari (Sanskrit, Hindi, etc.), I have included a transliteration if one was not already in the text,
• all footnotes moved to the end of their chapter,
• CONTENTS, PREFACE, INDEX, and TRANSCRIBER’S NOTE added to the Table of Contents, and
• added this note.

The cover was produced by transcriber using images in the book, and is hereby placed in the public domain.