Cover created by Transcriber and placed in the Public Domain.

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

Simple typographical errors were corrected; occasional unbalanced quotation marks retained.

Ambiguous hyphens at the ends of lines were retained.

Some ditto marks have been replaced by the actual text.

Page 83: In the illustration, “O” should be “C”.

Page 171: There is no obvious closing quotation mark to match the opening mark at “of most unusual age and thickness”.

Page 192: “Divided even between the ocean” may be a misprint for “evenly”.

Page 197: No matching closing quotation mark for the opening mark at “the small bright spot”.

Page 222: Transcriber added an opening quotation mark at “Down his back” to match the closing mark after “He was seen by every one on board.”

Page 230: No matching closing quotation mark for the opening mark at “a whale of large size”.

Page 302: Transcriber added an opening quotation mark at “About fifty years ago” to match the closing mark after “fed himself with the other.”

Page 372: No matching opening quotation mark for the closing mark after “its lower extremity.”

Page 385: No matching closing quotation mark for the opening mark at “sweeps off from”.