Transcriber's Note
Reading edition
1. Obvious printing errors have been corrected. Hyphenation has been made consistent where one of the options is in a clear majority: otherwise hyphenation has been retained as printed.
2. The following further changes have been made:
p. 108: "pull them out?" to "pull them out!"
p. 125: "bandeleer" to "bandoleer".
p. 165: "lieutenant’s-general’s" to "lieutenant-general’s".
p. 303 (heading to Chapter XIII.): "Barebones’" to "Barebone’s".
p. 391 (after "one that may"): change long dash to em-dash.
p. 400 (Index, "France"): 330 to 380.
p. 401 (Index, "Mardyke"): 348 to 357.