CONTENTS.
CHAPTER I.
The Colony--Reflections on the Past--Ideas of Willis the Pilot--SophiaWolston
CHAPTER II.
To what extent Willis the Pilot had Ideas on certain Subjects--TheKnights of the Ocean
CHAPTER III.
Wherein Willis the Pilot proves "Irrefragably" that Ephemerides die ofConsumption and Home-Sickness--The Canoe and its Young ones--TheSearch after the Sloop--Found--The Sword-Fish--Floating Atoms--AdmiralSocrates
CHAPTER IV.
A Landscape--Sad Houses and Smiling Houses--Politeness in China--EightSoups at Dessert--Wind Merchants--Another Idea of the Pilot's--Susan,vice Sophia
CHAPTER V.
Allotment of Quarters--A Horse Marine--Travelling Plants--Change ofDynasty in England--A Woman's Kingdom--Sheep converted intoChops--Resurrection of the Fried Fish--A Secret
CHAPTER VI.
The Queen's Doll--Rockhouse to Falcon's Nest--TheWind--Grasses--Admiral Homer--The Three Frogs--Oat Jelly--EsquimauxAstronomy--An Unknown
CHAPTER VII.
The Search for the Unknown--Three Fleets on Dry Land--TheIndiscretions of a Sugar Cane--Larboard and Starboard--The supposedSensibility of Plants--The Fly-trap--Vendetta--Root and Germ--Mine andCountermine--The Polypi--Oviparous and Viviparous--A Quid pro Quo
CHAPTER VIII.
Inhabitant of the Moon, Anthropophagian or Hobgoblin?--The LacedemonianStew of Madame Dacier--Utile Dulci--Tete-a-tete between Willis andhis Pipe--Tobacco versus Birch--Is it for Eating?--Mosquitoes--TheAlarm--Toby--The Nocturnal Expedition--We've got him
CHAPTER IX.
The Chimpanzee--Imperfect Negro, or Perfect Ape--The Harmonies ofNature--A Handful of Paws--A Stone Skin--Seventeen Spectacles on oneNose--Animalculae--Pelion on Ossa--Ptolemy--Copernicus toGalileo--Metaphysics and Cosmogonies--A live Tiger
CHAPTER X.
The Pioneers--Excursion to Coromandel--Hindoo Fancies--A CagedHunter--Louis XI and Cardinal Balue--A Furlong of News--Carnage--TheBaronet and his seventeen Tigers--Fifty-four feet of Celebrity--Sterne'sWindow--Promenade of the Consciences--Emulation and Vanity
CHAPTER XI.
On the Watch--Fecundity of Plants and Animals--Latest News from theMoon--A Death-Knell every Second--The Inconveniences of being too nearthe Sun--Narcotics--Willis contralto--Hunting turned upsidedown--Electric Clouds--Partialities of Lightning--Bells andBellringers--Conducting Rods--The Return--The Two Sisters--Tobybecomes a Dragoman
CHAPTER XII.
Man proposes, but God disposes--The Choice of aProfession--Conqueror--Orator--Astronomer--Composer--Painter--Poet--VillageCurate--The Kafirs--Occupations of Women--The Alpha and Omega of theSea
CHAPTER XIII.
Herbert and Cecilia--The little Angels--A Catastrophe--TheDeparture--Marriage of the Doge with the Adriatic--Sovereigns of theSea--Dante and Beatrix--Eleonora and Tasso--Laura and Petrarch--TheReturn--Surprises--What one finds in Turbots--A Horror--ThePrice of Crime--Ballooning--Philipson and the Cholera--AMetamorphosis--Adventure of the Chimpanzee--Are you Rich?
CHAPTER XIV.
The Tears of Childhood and Rain of the Tropics--Charles'Wain--Voluntary Enlistment--A Likeness Guaranteed--The World atPeace--Alas, poor Mary!--The same Breath for two Beings--The firstPillow--The Logic of the Heart--How Fritz supported Grief--A Grain ofSand and the Himalaya
CHAPTER XV.
God's Government--King Stanislaus--The Dauphin son of Louis XV.--Theshortest Road--New Year's Day--A Miracle--Clever Animals--TheCalendar--Mr. Julius Caesar and Pope Gregory XIII.--How the day afterthe 4th of October was the 15th--Olympiads--Lustres--The Hegira--AHorse made Consul--Jack's Dream
CHAPTER XVI.
Separation--Guelphs and Ghibelines--Montagues andCapulets--Sadness--The Reunion--Jocko and his Education--TheEntertainments of a King--The Mules of Nero and the Asses ofPoppaea--Hercules and Achilles--Liberty and Equality--Semiramis andElizabeth--Christianity and the Religion of Zoroaster--The WillisonianMethod--Moral Discipline versus Birch
CHAPTER XVII.
Where there's a Will there's a Way--Mucius Scaevola--What's to bedone?--Brutus Torquatus and Peter the Great--Australia, Botany Bay,and the Flying Dutchman--New Guinea and the Buccaneer--Vancouver'sIsland--White Skins--Danger of Landing on a Wave--Hanged orDrowned--Route to Happiness--Omens
CHAPTER XVIII.
Bacon and Biscuit--Let Sleeping Dogs Lie--The Paternal Benediction--AnApparition--A Mother not easily deceived--The Adieu--The EmperorConstantine--hoc signo vinces--The Sailor's Postscript--Caesar and hisFortunes--Recollections--Mrs. Becker plucks Stockings and KnitsOrtolans--How delightful it is to be Scolded--The Bodies vanish, butthe Souls remain
CHAPTER XIX.
Eighteen Hundred and Twelve--The _Mary_--Count Ugolino--The Sources ofRivers--The Alps demolished--No more Pyrenees--The First Ship--AdmiralNoah--Fleets of the Israelites--The Compass--Printing--Gunpowder--Actiumand Salamis--Dido and AEolus--Steam--Don Garay and Roger Bacon--Melchthal,Furst, and William Tell--Going a-pleasuring--Upset versus blown up--ADead Calm--The Log--Willis's Archipelago--The Island of Sophia--The BreadFruit-tree--Natives of Polynesia--Striped Trowsers--Abduction ofWillis--Is he to be Roasted or Boiled?--When the Wine is poured out,we must Drink it
CHAPTER XX.
Jupiter Tonans--The Thunders of the Pilot--Worshippers of theFar West--A late Breakfast--Rono the Great--A PolynesianLegend--Manners and Customs of Oceanica Mr. and Mrs. Tamaidi--RegalPomp--Elbow Room--Katzenmusik--Queen Tonico and the ShavingGlass--Consequences of a Pinch of Snuff--Disgrace of the GreatRono--Marins--Coriolanus--Hannibal--Alcibiades--Cimon--Aristides--ASop for the Thirsty--Air something else besides Oxygen andHydrogen--Maryland and Whitechapel--Half-way up the Cordilleras--HumanMachines--Star of the Sea, pray for us!
CHAPTER XXI.
Lying-to--Heart and Instinct--Sparrows viewed asConsumers--Migrations--Posting a Letter in thePacific--Cannibals--Adventures of a Locket
CHAPTER XXII.
The Utility of Adversity--An Encounter--The _Hoboken_--Bill alias Bob
CHAPTER XXIII.
In which Willis shows, that the term Press-gang means something elsebesides the Gentlemen of the Press
CHAPTER XXIV.
Another Idea of the Pilot's--The _Boudeuse_
CHAPTER XXV.
Delhi--William of Normandy and King John--Isabella of Bavaria and Joanof Arc--Poitier and Bovines--History of a Ghost, a Gridiron, and aChest of Guineas
CHAPTER XXVI.
Willis falls in with the Sloop on terra firma, instead of at thebottom of the Sea, as might have been expected--Admiral Cicero--TheDefunct not yet Dead
CHAPTER XXVII.
Captain Littlestone is found, and the Rev. Mr. Wolston is seen for thefirst time
CHAPTER XXVIII.
Willis proves that the only way to be free is to get sent toPrison--An Escape--A Discovery--Promotions--Somnambulism
Conclusion