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.

Ambiguous hyphens at the ends of lines were retained.

Some illustrations were moved closer to the text that referenced them.

The spelling of non-English words was not checked.

Index not checked for proper alphabetization or correct page references.

In the Table of Contents, one of the page numbers for Chapter IX was missing and the other was incorrect. Both remedied here.

Page 84: Transcriber added a closing quotation mark at the end of the paragraph ending with “a crossing of the Modder River.”

Footnote 62, originally on page 136: Transcriber added a closing quotation mark after “troop are extremely useful.”