Duplicate headings have been removed.

Illustrations have been moved next to the text which they illustrate, and may no longer correspond to the locations given in the List of Illustrations.

The following apparent errors have been corrected:

• p. 17 "bolstering it" changed to "bolstering its"
• p. 22 "unitiated" changed to "uninitiated"
• p. 111 "be imbibed" changed to "he imbibed"
• p. 161 "Smith" changed to "“Smith"
• p. 212 "Desirious" changed to "Desirous"
• p. 222 "‘Mickonaree ena" changed to "‘Mickonaree ena’"
• p. 223 "are!”" changed to "are!’"
• p. 261 "Remember" changed to "“Remember"
• p. 275 "shouler" changed to "shoulder"
• p. 290 "early." changed to "early.”"
• p. 293 "took" changed to "“took"
• p. 294 "Marriage." changed to "Marriage.”"
• p. 296 "away." changed to "away.”"
• p. 303 "Maids.”" changed to "Maids."
• p. 311 "evercise" changed to "exercise"
• p. 330 "qualty" changed to "quality"
• p. 337 "from hs" changed to "from his"
• p. 350 "prophet!" changed to "prophet!”"
• p. 351 "appearing the" changed to "appearing in the"
• p. 362 "Common-place.”" changed to "Common-place."
• p. 378 "c mpanion" changed to "companion"
• p. 388 "Harper’s New Monthly’s" changed to "Harper’s New Monthly"
• p. 393 "Fedellah" changed to "Fedallah"
• p. 393 "Griswald" changed to "Griswold"
• p. 394 "Henry, Joseph, 71." moved to alphabetical order
• p. 395 "Mac Maehan" changed to "MacMeehan"
• p. 395 "Winthrope" changed to "Winthrop"
• p. 397 "Otaheiti" changed to "Otaheite"
• p. 397 "Pequod The" changed to "Pequod, The"
• p. 397 "56. 61," changed to "56, 61,"
• p. 398 "Litchfield" changed to "Lichfield"
• p. 399 "Tanae" changed to "Tenae"
• p. 399 "Elkahah" changed to "Elkanah"

Non-standard and inconsistent punctuation, spelling and hyphenation, have otherwise been left as printed.

On p. 65, "GOD" was printed in black-letter type.

On p. 123 the closing quotation mark in "address her.”" has no corresponding opening quote.

The index entry for "Fleury, Franchise Raymonde Eulogie Marie de Douleurs LamÉ" refers to an entry for "Mrs. Thomas Melville—Melville’s aunt", which appears not to exist.