"C. OTTER.
"F. HOFFMAN, Esq., Commander R.N."
FOOTNOTES
1 Plymouth Dock.
2 A pie made of pilchards with their heads peeping through the crust,
hence the name "Star gazing."
3 See note (_a_).
4 See note (b).
5 Note C.
6 See Note D.
7 See Notes E and F.
TRANSCRIBER'S NOTE
The author's footnotes have been moved to the end of the volume.
The following typographical errors were corrected:
page XII, "prisoners" changed to "prisoner's" (see page 311)
page 31, "mens'" changed to "men's"
page 39, missing quote added (after "in about an hour.")
page 67, "of" added (between "north side" and "St. Domingo")
page 190, "lieuteuant" changed to "lieutenant"
page 192, missing quote added (after "fourpence")
page 251, "manchinel" changed to "manchineel"
page 271, missing quote added (after "he became my servant.")
page 302, "Lemarois" changed to "Lemaroix"
page 313, "hotel" changed to "hotel"
page 330, "window" changed to "windows"
Several unusual spellings were retained ("pigstye", "fidgetty"), as were
small errors in French quotations: "Vive le Garde Imperiale!" (for "Vive
la Garde Imperiale"), "Presqu' Isle" (for "Presqu'Isle"), "petit soupers"
(for "petits soupers").
The following words appear both in hyphenated and unhyphenated forms:
"cocoa-nut/cocoanut", "cray-fish/crayfish", "fire-arms/firearms",
"fire-flies/fireflies", "flag-ship/flagship", "flag-staffs/flagstaffs",
"fore-mast/foremast", "fore-yard/foreyard", "gun-boat/gunboat",
"gun-shot/gunshot", "main-mast/mainmast", "main-top/maintop",
"mast-headed/mastheaded", "mast-heading/mastheading",
"pine-apple/pineapple", "post-chaise/postchaise",
"quarter-master/quartermaster", "thunder-storm/thunderstorm",
"top-mast/topmast", "top-sail/topsail".
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