New original cover art included with this ebook is granted to the public
domain.
The illustrations have been moved to appropriate paragraph breaks.
The original text used the long s. This has been changed to the regular
s.
The page numbers in the original jump from 272 to 281. There is no text
missing.
On supplement page 101 the longitude number is missing in the original.
On supplement page 108 the year in which Captain John Davis set sail
from Dartmouth has been corrected from 1685 to 1585.
Obvious typographical errors have been corrected.
Archaic and inconsistent spelling and hyphenation have been retained
except for:
(Ship named) Moon-shine or Moonshine, regularised to Moonshine.
(Ship named) Sun-shine or Sunshine, regularised to Sunshine.