- The errata listed in the back of the book are original errata from the
print edition. This appears to be a first edition, so I am not sure why
it contains errata in the first place.
- The cover of the original print copy is damaged; as a result, some of the
text from the cover has been restored using guess work.
- Hand-written note on the title page not included: "Rotterdam, 23./24.
December 1901."
- Variant spellings that are nevertheless correct and used consistenly:
Shakspeare for Shakespeare, Appingadam for Appingedam.
- The book part "Op zee" has no title page, unlike the three other parts
(De Slamat, Minnebrieven, and Blijspel).
- 004.png: Restored "Villibald" (first letter partially obscured by a
sticker) to "Willibald."
- 014.png: Normalised a left-pointing guillemet to a right-pointing one:
»God willing".
- 031.png: Normalised "elkâar" to "elkaâr" (short for "elkander"). See also
the note for scan 109.png.
- 046.png: Normalised a lower double quote to a right-pointing guillemet:
»wee mij!".
- 054.png: May have an extraneous double quote mark; this is the same in
the print version. I left it like this, because it wasn't entirely clear
what the author was trying to say.
- 057.png: Changed "mij" to "my" in "I know that my Redeemer liveth" after
consulting the official Westminster Abbey website.
- 081.png: Inserted a space in "ochtend-en", resulting in "ochtend- en
middagdienst" (translation: _morning- and afternoon-service_).
- 094.png: changed "parat" to "paraît" in "mais d'aussi loin qu'il paraît."
- 105.png: This page contains what the author called a Malay lullaby. The
f-sharp in the fifth bar of this song sounds dissonant to Western ears.
Considering that the rest of the tune follows the Western I-IV-V (tonic,
sub-dominant, dominant) chord progression, such as is used in rock music,
folk songs, and indeed lullabies, it is likely that this is a Western
song, contrary to the author's claim. In which case the F-sharp should
probably be replaced by an E. In the Lilypond source code this can be
achieved by replacing "fis''4" by "e''4". However, since I am not sure,
I've left the dissonant in.
- 105.png: The song is called the nanny's "nonna, nina": this is likely to
be word play. The Italian for "lullaby" is "ninna nanna," and throughout
the book the author refers to young women as "nonna," Italian for
"grandmother," "nana." (Baboe is Dutch phonetic spelling for the Malay
word for "native nanny"). Young men and boys are often referred to as
"sinjo"s.
- 109.png: Normalised "elkâar" to "elkaâr" (short for "elkander"). See also
the note for scan 031.png.
- 127.png, 135.png, 167.png: Normalised "ë" to "Ë" in "GABRIËL."
- 138.png: Left out what appeared to be a grave accent on the "n" in
"Toean"; the accent glyph looks completely different from the one in
"Rèsiden," and I assume it's just a small printing error. Not to mention
that everywhere else "Toean" is spelled without an accent.
- 147.png: I assume the abbreviation "ll" stands for "letterlijk."
- 159.png: Corrected footnote number from "2" to "1."
- 182.png: Inserted a thought-break because that seemed to match earlier
instances of the following line ("Weet ge 't nog, liefste mijn -- ?").
- 182.png: a previous owner scratched a word so badly with a pencil, that
the paper was torn. I am guessing here that the word between "uw" and
"oogjes" is "blauwe" (resulting in the Dutch for "your blue eyes").
- 189.png: Printer's error fixed: "CCARA" to "CLARA."
- 190.png: Presumed printer's error fixed: "ten min-" to "ten minste"
(transl. "at least").
- 199.png: Normalised the abbreviation "Clar." to "Clara".
- 224.png: Normalised "Joducus" to "Judocus."
- 225.png: Was numbered 121 instead of 221 in the print version.
- 228.png: Normalised: added a "." to "Clara."
- 232.png (back cover): stage tape to hold the cover together obscured part
of the text; we tried to guess in every instance what the text had said.
- Footnotes have been renumbered throughout the entire work and have been
moved to the ends of chapters. Renumbering footnotes is standard Project
Gutenberg practice, as is the moving of footnotes -- although footnotes
aren't necessarily always moved to the ends of chapters. Please refer to
the original scans used to create this e-text if you need to know the exact
footnote numbers or positions.
- The author/typesetter liberally used long dashes either filled out to the
end of the line, or starting on the next line where they stopped on the
previous one. I have not followed this formatting practice for the eBook,
but elected instead to retain the exact number of dashes from the printed
book.