spelling of 'yogurt'. Many of the names of places and peoples have long
since changed and so are no longer easily referenced.

The book is written in the common English of a San Francisco journalist
of the era and so is filled with contemporaneous idioms and prejudices,
as well as his own wry wit.

One of the more unfortunate issues is the omission of the over 100
illustrations of the original edition. I also elected to omit the
informative captions. I hope to make an HTML edition available at
http://rjs.org/gutenberg/ which will include them.

If you find any scanning errors, out and out typos, punctuation
errors, or if you disagree with my formatting choices please feel
free to email me those errors: gutenburg@rjs.org
The space between the double quotes and the quoted text is sometimes
omitted, usually included. This is an artifact of the OCR program
interpreting the small space in the original print, and if someone wants to
remove the space from all of the quotes, I would be glad to see it.

I have written a wxPython program to assist in converting raw OCR text to
the project's formatting, as well as general punctuation and spelling.
http://rjs.org/gutenberg/OCR2Gutenberg/
Code contributions/modifications are most welcome; it is a bit of a hack,
but it reduced the proof time needed by more than what it took to write
778 lines of code.


Ray Schumacher