+----------------------------------------------------------------- + | Transcriber's Note: | | | | Minor typographical errors have been corrected without note. | | | | Punctuation and spelling were made consistent when a predominant | | form was found in this book; otherwise they were not changed. | | | | Ambiguous hyphens at the ends of lines were retained. | | | | Mid-paragraph illustrations have been moved between paragraphs | | and some illustrations have been moved closer to the text that | | references them. The List of Illustrations paginations were | | changed accordingly. | | | | Italicized words are surrounded by underline characters, | | _like this_. | | | | Superscripts are enclosed in brackets like this 2{nd}. | | | | Duplicated section headings have been omitted. | | | |Footnotes were moved to the end of chapters and numbered in one | |continuous sequence. | +------------------------------------------------------------------+ End of Project Gutenberg's Pilots of the Republic, by Archer Butler Hulbert