Produced by David Starner William Pattersonand the Online Distributed Proofreading TeamTRANSCRIBERS NOTEThe Esperanto alphabet contains 28 characters These are thecharacters of English but with q w x and y removed andsix diacritical letters added The diacritical letters are cg h j and s with circumflexes or hats as Esperantistsfondly call them and u with a breve Zamenhof himself suggestedthat where the diacritical letters caused difficulty one couldinstead use ch gh hh jh sh and u A plain ASCIIfile is one such place there are no ASCII codes for Esperantosspecial lettersHowever there are two problems with Zamenhofs hmethod Thereis no difference between u and u with a breve and there is noway to determine without prior knowledge of the words involvedand sometimes a bit of context whether an h following one ofthose other five letters is really the second half of a diacriticalpair or just an h that happened to find itself next to one ofthem Consequently other unambiguous methods have been used overthe years One is the xmethod which uses the digraphs cxgx hx jx sx and ux to represent the special lettersThere is no ambiguity because the letter x is not an Esperantoletter and each diacritical letter has a unique transliterationThis is the method used in this Project Gutenberg etextIMAGESThere are five images referenced in the text search for IlustrajxoNaturally they cannot be displayed within the ASCII file but I createdthese markers for referenceIlustrajxo terglobopng                              L ZAMENHOF                         FUNDAMENTA KRESTOMATIO                              DE LA LINGVO                               ESPERANTO                               DUA ELDONO                  FRANCUJOHACHETTE et Cie PARIS                ANGLUJOREVIEW of REVIEWS LONDON            DANUJOANDRFRED HOEST  SOEN KJOBENHAVN                 GERMANUJOMOELLER  BOREL BELIN                  HISPANUJOJ ESPASA BARCELONA                 ITALUJORAFFAELLO GIUSTI LIVORNO                     POLUJOM ARCT  WARSZAWA               SVEDUJOESPERANTOFOERENING STOCKHOLM         Estas mendeblaj                      CXE LA LIBREJO HACHETTE KAJ Ko                                                                               TUTMONDA                      JARLIBRO ESPERANTISTA  1905                              enhavanta la                       Adresarojn de Dro ZAMENHOF              Unu volumo 432 pagxa        2 fr 50                                                                       INTERNACIA SCIENCA REVUO                              En Esperanto                  REDAKCIO                   ADMINISTRACIO                 P FRUICTIER                  HACHETTE  Ko            27 boulevard Arago       79 boulevard SaintGermain                   PARIS