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Transcriber's Notes:
Both "red-skin" and "redskin", "on-coming" and "oncoming", "head-master"and "headmaster", appear in the original text and remain unchanged.
This text contains UK English spellings, archaic spelling of placenames, titles, and non-English words. These have been retained.