This file uses _underscores_ to indicate italic text. New original cover
art included with this eBook is granted to the public domain. Itemized
changes from the original text:
• p. 234: Added opening quotation mark before phrase “Dinner was
scarcely over when we set up our great ladder of ropes.”
• p. 235: Added period after phrase “or mountain snake.”
• p. 240: Replaced period with comma after phrase “no military name in
France, or in Europe, was more renowned than that of Turenne.”