Front matter
Reading edition
The Frontispiece ("Christy seized him...") has been placed between the Preface and the Table of Contents. Invisible punctuation has been silently supplied, and superfluous quotation marks removed. Inconsistent hyphenation has been retained. Other typographical errors are marked in the text with mouse-hover popups. The spelling "cockswain" is standard for this text. The variation between "knots" and "knots an hour" is as in the original.
