Punctuation and spelling were made consistent when a predominant preference was found in this book; otherwise they were not changed. Possibly inconsistent spellings of names and place-names have been retained.

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

Inconsistent hyphenation and ambiguous hyphens at the ends of lines were retained.

"The Chochiang-Koria Line" is spelled that way throughout the book.

Page 195: "Great Southern Port" was printed as "Greatern"; changed here.

Page 247: "mileage" was printed as "milage"; changed here.

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