TRANSCRIBER’S NOTES
Reading edition
Minor spelling inconsistencies (e.g. El Kasr/El-Kasr, Kûrna/Kurna, etc.) have been preserved.
Alterations to the text:
Abandon the use of drop-caps.
Punctuation: fix some quotation mark pairings/nestings and missing periods.
[Chapter I]
Change “with never a word of farwell, urged by a sudden irrational” to farewell.
“Same classic analogy cropped up in his mind” to Some.
[Chapter XI]
“and ponds and gardens of flourishng trees” to flourishing.
[Chapter XII]
“Hassan es-Sufa extended his palms and softly intruded” to Sugra.
[Chapter XIII]
“He seemed scarely to have closed his eyes before” to scarcely.
[Chapter XIV]
(“By jove!” John Cumberland exclaimed.) to Jove.
[Chapter XV]
“His foosteps might be heard receding along the wâdi” to footsteps.
[Chapter XVI]
“It we had known, sir, with a little more time and trouble we” to If.
[Chapter XX]
(This was Kyphi, mentioned in the “Papyrus Embers,” and) to Ebers.
[Chapter XXIV]
“set upon Barry with an expresison of childish eagerness” to expression.
[Chapter XXVI]
“Priness Zalithea has very little English, so excuse her” to Princess.
[Chapter XXVII]
“he saw the long repressed tears gathering under the dark fringe” to long-repressed.
“Do they drown one of twins in those parts?” add the after of.
[Chapter XXXI]
“who drove you to the hospital and took care of you car” to your.
“suggests that the theory—now generally acepted, I believe” to accepted.
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