Chapter 81

On Page 73 and Page 76, block-houses appear with a hyphen. Both words are written this way, in the middle of a line, in the text by Parkman. There are many other occurrences of the word blockhouse where the word is spelled without a hyphen. See the detailed notes of Chapter 8 for more information. We kept the transcription as it appears in the printed book, and simply advise readers that the author or the publisher, and not the transcriber, originated the inconsistency.

On Page 75, in footnote 41, the word servir appears to have an accent over the r. The 1884 volume does not have the accent; therefore, the assumption is that the accent in the 1885 volume is an imperfection. We transcribed the word as 'servir,' without the accent over the r.

On Page 85, verb tenses do not agree in the sentence: Seventy years of missionaries had not weaned them from cannibalism, and they boiled and eat the Demoiselle. Nevertheless, the sentence was transcribed as Parkman wrote it.