Illustrations have been moved to avoid paragraph breaks, and may no longer match the locations in the List of Illustrations. Page headers have been converted to sidenotes. Page numbers of blank and illustration pages have been removed.

The following apparent errors have been corrected:

• p. 119 "blackene" changed to "blackened"
• p. 122 "disagreeeble" changed to "disagreeable"
• p. 293 (note) "Hanuman" changed to "Hanuman,"
• p. 298 "colums" changed to "columns"
• Advertisement p. 15 "8vo" changed to "8vo."

Other variant spellings and inconsistent punctuation have been left as printed.