Punctuation, hyphenation, and spelling were made consistent when a
predominant preference was found in the original book; otherwise they
were not changed.
Simple typographical errors were corrected; unbalanced quotation
marks were remedied when the change was obvious, and otherwise left
unbalanced.
Illustrations in this eBook have been positioned between paragraphs
and outside quotations. In versions of this eBook that support
hyperlinks, the page references in the List of Illustrations lead to
the corresponding illustrations.
In the original book, footnotes appeared at the bottoms of pages;
here, they have been collected, renumbered into one ascending
sequence, and placed at the end of the book.
Page 27: The original book used ditto marks to indicate repetition of
the _Solo_ lines in the poem. Here, “(twice)” is used each time.
Pages 240-247: The English and Pidgin-English versions were printed
on facing pages in the original book. Here, they are printed
consecutively. In the second specimen, the English version contains
nine stanzas, but the Pidgin-English version contains only eight.
Page 331: “unbelief cannot overcome.--them.” was printed that way.
Page 335: “vagrant now than they” is the end of the paragraph, but
had no ending period. Transcriber added one, but the missing period
suggests the possibility of missing text.