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

The spelling of non-English words was not checked.

Simple typographical errors were corrected.

Ambiguous hyphens at the ends of lines were retained.

Page 100: Closing quotation mark added after “valuable consignments.”

Page 126 or 127: Missing footnote anchor “62”.

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Page 254: Paragraph beginning “The external reason” probably should be “The internal reason”.