DO NOT BUY THIS BOOK. This kindle book is utterly unusable. It does not even appear that the pages are in order. All that comes up on my kindle are lots of end book notes. Now, I have the original 1896 printing of this work (in two volumes)....so I know what it is supposed to look like. It would appear that this was completely copied/collated by a machine with a problem. This needs to be completely redone.I agree with the other reviewer, this document appears to have not survived digitization completely intact. There are useful passages, but the document starts at chapter 16, with only the table of contents for the preceding 15 chapters being present. Any table or figure has been wiped out in the conversion as wellI used this as a reference while looking at Victorian life and the Royal Navy.An extremely, practically criminally inept job of converting to electronic format; the original text contains copious footnotes, which appear almost at random broken into disconnected fragments and scattered through the body of the text like radishes in semantic salad.Optical character recognition has failed to the extent that very few of the precise figures and proper names in the text can be trusted unless they can be confirmed from other sources; typographical errors routine to the extent of crippling the sense of the book.The only purpose of the index seems to be to provide an instructive example of how these things should not be done; large parts of it not even in words, but reduced to pseudo- cryptographic gibberish.Someone should lose their job for this.