TRANSCRIBER’S NOTES.
Reading edition
Sydney C. Grier was the pseudonym of Hilda Caroline Gregg.
This book is part of the author’s “Indian Historical Series.” The full series being: In Furthest Ind, Like Another Helen, and The Great Proconsul.
A letter in Chapter XII contains two words (Condicons and Consolacon) which have a tilde on the second c. As this character isn’t available in the current UTF-8 specification, c is substituted.
Alterations to the text:
Convert footnotes to endnotes.
Fix a few quotation mark pairings.
[Chapter II]
Change “Now tha his majesty was happily returned” to that.
[Chapter VI]
“how should it signifiy to us on whose side we fought?” to signify.
[Chapter XX]
“so great was the contrast beween his reverend aspect” to between.
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