TRANSCRIBER’S NOTES
Reading edition
Minor spelling inconsistencies (e.g. Jellah-Coffee/Jella-Koffi/Jella Koffi, pitifull/pitiful, shade-tree/shade tree, etc.) have largely been preserved.
Alterations to the text:
Abandon the use of drop-caps.
Place the two brief footnotes inline with the text.
Punctuation: fix some quotation mark pairings/nestings, and a few missing periods and commas.
[Chapter I]
“before we could get about to speak him he was off” add to after speak.
“ye great, fat, lazy, lollopin, black divil!” change the comma after lollopin to an apostrophe.
[Chapter II]
Change “he sung out in his mellow Irish baritone” to sang.
[Chapter III]
“the Captain secured for me the assistance of Vandepuye” to Vanderpuye.
[Chapter VII]
“the massive form of Captain Bithery apeared in the doorway” to appeared.
(“Well,” said the Skipper gruffly, “you know your own mind) to skipper.
[Chapter IX]
(“What you want, boy?” demanded Pereira sharply.) add do after What.
“purchased as “curios” from Hausa mechants: a riga or gown” of merchants.
[Chapter XI]
“obtained a start of fully three quarters of an hour before” to three-quarters.
[Chapter XII]
“when the civilisation of the west was yet unborn” to West.
[Chapter XIII]
“The pool was evidently of considerable depth, even close in shore” to inshore.
[Chapter XIV]
“Musa and Dam Bornu held the weeping giant by the arms that” to Dam-Bornu.
[Chapter XV]
“struck the hard floor with the sound of a pavior’s rammer” to hammer.
[Chapter XVII]
“especally as I was evidently not a native of that part” to especially.
“No one will have him at a gift.” to as.
[Chapter XX]
(“We will sup by ourslves,” Aminé put in quickly,) to ourselves.
[Chapter XXI]
(thou hast come back to us,” said Al-hassan, “for it was I) to Alhassan.
[Chapter XXII]
“armed with one of my knives, moved down the high elephant grass” to mowed.
[Chapter XXIV]
“my deliverance seemed to come within measureable distance” to measurable.
[Chapter XXV]
“I ran the canoe in shore where a small, stout tree grew close” to inshore.
[Chapter XXVI]
“the pile of foaming water was sweeping in shore” to inshore.
“blow after blow, and tended to sweep me in shore.” to inshore.
[Chapter XXVIII]
(“You may hear me say it now.” said she, “as you) change the period to a comma.
[End of text]