Transcriber's Notes:
Reading edition
Some words are apparently spelled to reflect the Scottish dialect.
Page vi: [Bands p aying God save the King--Edward the--? 63-74] Typo: p aying changed to playing.
Page 14: [there that set his neighbours and my neice and] Typo: neice changed to niece.
Page 66: [card! To meet their Royal Hignesses, the Prince and] Typo: Hignesses changed to Highnesses.
Page 115: [old trail--the Midlands to Indiar, and Indiar to the Midlands, with bwidge between.] Possible typo: 'bwidge'. I believe it was intentional. Unchanged.
Page 121: [have, between a thoroughbred's and a man's. They were yellowish beards and black faces and black ends to their] Typo: Changed were to wore.
Page 145: [and rather monkeyish in apperance; still, some were not] Typo: Changed apperance to appearance.
Page 158: [lean out and see our little narrow guage train crawling] Typo: Changed guage to gauge.
Page 171: [pageants, elephant kedar camps, and the right royal enterments] Typo: Changed enterments to entertainments.
Page 173: [that these early forms of various races are not mor often] Typo: Changed mor to more.
Page 199: [house, or if you exhibit any symptons of plauge or deadly] Typo: plauge changed to plague. Typo: symptons changed to symptoms.
Page 201: [about twenty-five to thirty feet over all, with pratically flat] Typo: Changed pratically to practically.
Page 202: [here is considerd to be very damping.] Possible typo: 'considerd'. Unchanged as the author uses this form reasonably often.
Page 213: [bar across its mouth, and to to the right views of the] Double word: 'to to' changed to single 'to'.
Page 214: [edge of the receeding wave, then turned lavender laced] Possible typo: 'receeding'. Unchanged.
Page 216: [floor, overhead a domed roof with chrystal chandeliers, and smaller crystal lights round the sides.] Typo: Chrystal left unchanged as it is used elsewhere.
Page 219: [three deep to see the Sahib get sand of his feet, extremely] Typo: Changed of to off.
Page 223: [some out-of-the-way Highland or Norwegian loch, with on boat on it, and the trout rising in the middle.] Typo: Changed on to one.
Page 256: [jungle comes the sound of Burmese music. A Pwe is] Changed Pwe to Pwé for consistency.
Page 268: [them; a _reductio ad absuurdum_, from the point of view of] Typo: Changed absuurdum to absurdum.
Page 273: [it on as they came out, modesly and neatly. The women] Typo: Changed modesly to modestly.
Page 277: [As we were talking, the Rock pilot came alonside in a] Typo: Changed alonside to alongside.
Page 279: [wordly desires[1]. So it was in the earliest Scottish Church;] Typo: Changed wordly to worldly.
Page 307: [with elephant and finish up with mouse-deer and button-quail.] Typo: Changed qauil to quail.
Page 314: [along the top of the river bank. The arrangemant might] Typo: Changed arrangemant to arrangement.
Page 327: [another bullock-cart, with an older Burman whose face was a delight--so wrinked, and wreathed with smiles. I] Typo: Changed wrinked to wrinkled.
Page 328: [on it was a great space of eongealed blood just where] Typo: Changed eongealed to congealed.
Page 341: [vividly as a few notes of an air, the rythm of some folk-song--a] Typo: Changed rythm to rhythm.
Page 348: [to ninty feet at a guess, and fastened snake rings on with] Possible typo: Ninty may have been an old spelling for ninety. Unchanged.
Page 358: [But where the dead leaf fell, their did it rest."] Incorrect use of their. Changed to there.
Various: Some a.m. are small capped, others are not. Changed all to small capped A.M. to be consistent.
Hyphenation--words occur both ways in the original. Unchanged.
afterglow/after-glow
barefooted/bare-footed
bathrooms/bath-rooms
dreamlike/dream-like
eyelashes/eye-lashes
forefathers/fore-fathers
humdrum/hum-drum
lamplight/lamp-light
lamplit/lamp-lit
midday/mid-day
password/pass-word
pothole/pot-hole
riverside/river-side
sandbank/sand-bank
searchlight/search-light
splashboard/splash-board
sunlit/sun-lit
waterfowl/water-fowl
womenfolk/women-folk
Words spelled 2 ways.
crusies/cruisies
crystal/chrystal
pandal/pandol
paroquet/parroquet
Phoungie/Phunghi/Phoungyi