Transcriber's notes: Obvious spelling/typographical and punctuation errors have been corrected after careful comparison with other occurrences within the text and consultation of external sources. p6: "take it out of the human race" corrected to "take it out on the human race" p6: "would'nt" corrected to "wouldn't" p7: "dreamland" occurs here only; "dream-land" occurs on p66 only, not at a linebreak; both retained p12: "Caramba" is clear and occurs only once in the book; "Coramba" occurs once and with equal clarity on p59; both retained p14: "to his strid ," corrected to "to his stride," p15: "esprit de corps" occurs here only; "esprit du corps" also occurs once (p31); both retained p21: archaic spelling "ladye" fits the context, so retained p26: added closing quote mark to "burying." p33: "votre" corrected to "votre" p34: "proprietaire" corrected to "proprietaire" p36: "deja" corrected to "deja" p36: "on est sur de" corrected to "on est sur de" p42: "pic-nic" occurs here and on p43, not at a linebreak; "picnic" occurs on p45 and p47; both retained p44: in the first verse quoted by Royston, "pikemen's" is an apparent misquotation for "pikeman's", and "scatheless" may be a typo for "scathless" p46: "missionery" corrected to "missionary" p46: "innuendoes" retained as archaic spelling p47: "tranquillity" retained as archaic spelling p62: "partez-seul" corrected to "partez seul" p62: "betise" corrected to "betise" p62: "vegeance" corrected to "vengeance" The following obscure English words used by the author need no correction p32: "tulwar" is a variant spelling of "talwar", a kind of Indian sabre p33: "glozing" means explaining away/glossing over p39: "teind" is a tithe p44: "pursy" means short-winded p46: to "aby" means to pay the penalty p46: to "lanch" means to throw or let fly