Transcriber’s note
Reading edition
The author’s footnotes have been moved to the end of the volume.
The following typographical errors were corrected:
page XII, “prisoners” changed to “prisoner’s” (see page 311)
page 31, “mens’” changed to “men’s”
page 39, missing quote added (after “in about an hour.”)
page 67, “of” added (between “north side” and “St. Domingo”)
page 190, “lieuteuant” changed to “lieutenant”
page 192, missing quote added (after “fourpence”)
page 251, “manchinel” changed to “manchineel”
page 271, missing quote added (after “he became my servant.”)
page 302, “Lemarois” changed to “Lemaroix”
page 313, “hotel” changed to “hôtel”
page 330, “window” changed to “windows”
Several unusual spellings were retained (“pigstye”, “fidgetty”), as were small errors in French quotations: “Vive le Garde Impériale!” (for “Vive la Garde Impériale”), “Presqu’ Isle” (for “Presqu’Isle”), “petit soupers” (for “petits soupers”).
The following words appear both in hyphenated and unhyphenated forms: “cocoa-nut/cocoanut”, “cray-fish/crayfish”, “fire-arms/firearms”, “fire-flies/fireflies”, “flag-ship/flagship”, “flag-staffs/flagstaffs”, “fore-mast/foremast”, “fore-yard/foreyard”, “gun-boat/gunboat”, “gun-shot/gunshot”, “main-mast/mainmast”, “main-top/maintop”, “mast-headed/mastheaded”, “mast-heading/mastheading”, “pine-apple/pineapple”, “post-chaise/postchaise”, “quarter-master/quartermaster”, “thunder-storm/thunderstorm”, “top-mast/topmast”, “top-sail/topsail”.