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Notes on the text: Some words from the Index do not occur in text. Wrong accents (Pyreneés, Lozére) have not been corrected. Page 151, Fallmeseyer: this is possibly a reference to Jakob Philipp Fallmerayer. Page 216, penguin eggs: this seems unlikely on the North Pole; see also the illustration which shows flying birds. This is possibly a mistranslation from the French.

Changes made to the original text: Illustrations have been moved outside paragraphs. Footnotes have been moved to directly underneath the paragraph to which they refer. Some obviously missing or incorrect punctuation has been corrected silently. Coloured plates and an unnumbered illustration have been added to the List of Illustrations. Page xii: BURIATS changed to BURÏATS as in text Page 10: terrestial changed to terrestrial Page 26: γηαθος changed to γναθος Page 65: silen men changed to silent men Page 66: Moldo-Wallachians changed to Moldo-Walachians as elsehwere Page 116: Slevenians changed to Slavonians Page 170: hundreth changed to hundredth Page 174: fig. 80 changed to fig. 74 Page 214: This consist changed to This consists Page 243: (fig. 109) changed to (fig. 110) Page 262: develope changed to develop Page 267: Tea houses changed to Tea-houses as elsewhere Page 280 Footnote [9]: the original text “Idem” has been replaced with the same text as Foootnote [8] Page 305: tight fiting changed to tight fitting Page 342: developes changed to develops; threw coquettishly changed to throw coquettishly Page 361: Cammar changed to Cammas Page 381: tatooing changed to tattooing as elsewhere Page 395: somtimes changed to sometimes Page 420: Abipoous changed to Abipones Page 488: archeologists changed to archæologists as elsewhere Page 518: disagreeble changed to disagreeable Page 540: Caryii changed to Caryis as in text Page 541: Demoulins changed to Desmoulins as in text Page 542: Gadigues changed to Gadiguès; Dchera changed to Déhera; Dhamars changed to Dhamans; Djelodas changed to Dejelodar; Dejemua changed to Djemaa; Flathead changed to Flat-head; Fondaisi changed to Foudaïsi; Gadigues changed to Gadiguès (all as in text) Page 543: Hindôstani changed to Hindostani; Huasetecas, 489 changed to Huaxtecas, 460; Ischonians changed to Ischorians; kalyandjy changed to kalyaudjy (all as in text) Page 544: Manchus changed to Manchús as in text Page 545: Miridites changed to Mirdites; Pai-agnaa changed to Pai-aguaá as in text; Negus Theodoras changed to Negus Theodorus (all as in text) Page 546: Sagaris changed to Sagaïs as in text Page 547: Slevenians changed to Slavonians; Spathas changed to Spathar; Tamboukies changed to Tamboukis; Tchourachians changed to Tchouvachians (all as in text) Page 548: 242, 242, 244 changed to 232, 232, 234; Wurtembergers changed to Würtembergers (as in text); Yuracaures changed to Yuracares (as in text).