George Smith

{Note from the preparer of this etext: I have had to insert a few comments mainly in regards to adjustments to fonts to allow for some of the characters in the Indian names; you will find any of my own notes enclosed in these brackets -- {}. I have also renumbered the footnotes and placed them at the end of this e-text, removing them from within the document where they fell at the end of each corresponding page.}

{Updater's note: footnote numbers have been enclosed with square brackets, e.g. [30]. The Greek in footnote 1 has been transliterated according to the Project Gutenberg Greek How-to. The oe-ligature character has been replaced with "[oe]", in the text version.}