“I really wished you could stay here till this time to walk in together to Port Arthur. I got slightly wounded after you left and lost hearing of one ear. Wishing to see you at Mukden and with best regards,
Obvious typographical errors and punctuation errors have been corrected after careful comparison with other occurrences within the text and consultation of external sources.
Except for those changes noted below, all misspellings in the text, and inconsistent or archaic usage, have been retained. For example, bomb-proof, bombproof; machine gun, machine-gun; firing-line, firing line; hyposcope; tensity; deviltry; diapason.
Pg 12, ‘defense motar’ replaced by ‘defense mortar’. Pg 17, ‘SEIGE, AND CAPTURE’ replaced by ‘SIEGE, AND CAPTURE’. Pg 23, ‘subterreanean mines’ replaced by ‘subterranean mines’. Pg 46 (caption), ‘leaving Dalney’ replaced by ‘leaving Dalny’. Pg 61, ‘parchment-krinkled’ replaced by ‘parchment-crinkled’. Pg 68, ‘the fragant air’ replaced by ‘the fragrant air’. Pg 70, ‘His silk tile’ replaced by ‘His silk tie’. Pg 74, ‘primeval ectasy’ replaced by ‘primeval ecstasy’. Pg 136 ‘rice paddie’ replaced by ‘rice paddy’. Pg 160, ‘reduce the catidel’ replaced by ‘reduce the citadel’. Pg 203, ‘commssioned officers’ replaced by ‘commissioned officers’. Pg 221, ‘To the Colenel’ replaced by ‘To the Colonel’. Pg 230, ‘wild crysanthemums’ replaced by ‘wild chrysanthemums’. Pg 240 (caption), ‘the Jananese soldier’ replaced by ‘the Japanese soldier’. Pg 240 (caption), ‘preceeding the battle’ replaced by ‘preceding the battle’. Pg 303, ‘chistening the fort’ replaced by ‘christening the fort’. Pg 319, ‘have diagramed it’ replaced by ‘have diagrammed it’. Pg 325, ‘guns apparenly’ replaced by ‘guns apparently’.
End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Port Arthur, by Richard Barry