223; damndest, p. 212; and almightly, p. 195).
Two misspellings of foreign words have also been retained. (matats for
metates, p. 81; sapodillias for sapodillas, p. 194).
The following corrections and changes were made:
p. 19: pocket knife to pocket-knife
p. 87: " to ' (will say, 'Haven't you got any real good blankets?)
p. 121: is'nt to isn't (Nonsense, man, there isn't any dog.)
p. 135: thought-transferrence to thought-transference (what is called
telepathy or thought-transference)
p. 143: is to was (It was a very cold day)
p. 145: meetting to meeting (attending a corporation meeting)
p. 176-177: duplicate text removed (original read: "dressed in the
ordinary European costume. There [Page Break] in the ordinary European
costume. There was nothing striking about him")
p. 180: etc, to etc., ("Verily, out of the mouths of babes, etc.,")
p. 196: Mellissuga minima to Mellisuga minima
p. 202: ugly looking to ugly-looking
p. 205: Heading for section added (I.)
Commas were changed to question marks in the following sentences:
p. 104: "Were you a doctor when alive?" I asked.
p. 178: "What is this hieroglyphic affair at the top here?" he asked.
p. 187: 'How did your brother procure it?' I asked.
Accents or ligatures in the following words were modified for this ASCII
version:
-Canyon, canyon (n-tilde changed to 'ny')
-vitae (ae-ligature removed)
-Zoological (diaeresis on 2nd 'o' removed)
-Phoenix, chef-d'oeuvre (oe-ligatures removed)
-degrees (degree sign changed to word degrees)
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