volume XXV appeared and it included this story by Percy F.

Westerman. This story was published the next year (1912) by Adam & Charles Black, as a novel.

The 1911 edition contains a number of misprints. The following misprints have been corrected:

[from beneath, his feet.] -> [from beneath his feet.]

[I wil hasten to] -> [I will hasten to]

["I am begining to] -> ["I am beginning to]

Beneath an illustration the following text was found: [the tips of the twin propellors] -> [the tips of the twin propellers]

[the companion Selkirk,] -> [the companion, Selkirk,]

[in the Altantic] -> [in the Atlantic]

Several words occur with different notation. It could not be established which spelling is correct, so no corrections were made for: [charthouse]/[chart-house] [bos'n]/[bos'un]/[bo's'un] [siren]/[syren]

A reversal was detected (but not corrected) in the following fragment: ["destroyed" was substituted for that signifying "escaped."] Following the story-line, the author probably meant to write: ["escaped" was substituted for that signifying "destroyed."]

The plain text file uses underscores to indicate italic text and asterixes to indicate bold.

A contents-list and an illustrations-list have been added for the convenience of the reader.

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