TRANSCRIBER’S NOTES
Reading edition
Minor spelling inconsistencies (e.g. lovelorn/love-lorn, trumpet call/trumpet-call, unmistakeable/unmistakable, etc.) have been preserved.
Alterations to the text:
Abandon the use of drop-caps.
Punctuation: fix a few quotation mark pairings/nestings.
[Chapter VII]
Change “increased the fresh young comeliness of his apppearance” to appearance.
[Chapter XVII]
“the fact that the Inquisitor, General Don Gaspar de Quiroga” to Inquisitor-General.
[Chapter XVIII]
“Neverthless, he waved back the familiars who had already” to Nevertheless.
[Chapter XIX]
“held the sheet tremble vioiently as if suddenly palsied” to violently.
[Chapter XX]
“The Concepcion which Don Pedro de Mendoza had commanded” to Concepción.
[Chapter XXIII]
“spoke with an accent that rendered him almost imcomprehensible” incomprehensible.
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