The Tremendous Event

  Transcriber's Note: The following typographical errors present in theoriginal edition have been corrected.

  In Part I, the following corrections were made.

  In Chapter I, "To day another ship" was changed to "To-day anothership", "more so to-morow" was changed to "more so to-morrow", and"Quite badly" was changed to "Quite baldly".

  In Chapter II, a comma was added after "the Comte de Bauge's_Castor_", and a comma was changed to a period before "It's here".

  In Chapter IV, "reconqueror the lost ground" was changed to "reconquerthe lost ground".

  In Chapter VIII, a missing period was added after "a sound of voices","foot-prints of the rubber soles" was changed to "footprints of therubber soles", and a missing period was added after "I don't know".

  In Part II, the following corrections were made.

  In Chapter I, "Eocence and Pliocene" was changed to "Eocene andPliocene", "precipitious sides" was changed to "precipitous sides",and "out or reach" was changed to "out of reach".

  In Chapter II, "Le Harve and Southampton" was changed to "Le Havre andSouthampton", missing quotation marks were added before "and ourhorses perhaps won't last" and "I've just come from there","indispensible words" was changed to "indispensable words", missingperiods were added after "flew off at a gallop", "barring theirprogress", and "propounded by the exceptional circumstances", and"proof of my loyality" was changed to "proof of my loyalty".

  In Chapter III, "some where ahead" was changed to "somewhere ahead","split on the sloping shore" was changed to "spilt on the slopingshore", and "the firing, would have told them" was changed to "thefiring would have told them".

  In Chapter IV, "took air and fired" was changed to "took aim andfired", and a quotation mark was removed after "Where is it?".

  In Chapter VI, "he perferred to draw" was changed to "he preferred todraw", and "passing the hatch of a compion-way" was changed to"passing the hatch of a companion-way".

  In Chapter VII, "One, of the women moved to a cabin door listened andreturned" was changed to "One of the women moved to a cabin door,listened and returned", "you'd thinking he's sleeping" was changed to"you'd think he's sleeping", "The gangay began" was changed to "Thegangway began", a period was changed to a comma after "Every man tohis post", "The assailants hesistated" was changed to "The assailantshesitated", a quotation mark was removed after "the laughter ofRolleston's companions....", "then enemy's onslaught" was changed to"the enemy's onslaught", and "losing unconsciousness" was changed to"losing consciousness".

  In Chapter VIII, a missing period was added after "wasunrecognizable", "by which Great Britian and France" was changed to"by which Great Britain and France", "fishing-inindustry" was changedto "fishing-industry", and "Eccene period" was changed to "Eoceneperiod".