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CONTENTS.

VOL. I.

CHAPTER

PAGE

• 1. Foot in Stirrup 13

• 2. A Calm 20

• 3. A King for a Comrade 23

• 4. A Chat in the Clouds 29

• 5. Seats secured and Portmanteaus packed 32

• 6. Eight Bells 35

• 7. A Pause 38

• 8. They push off, Velis et Remis 40

• 9. The Watery World is all before Them 44

• 10. They arrange their Canopies and Lounges, and try to
  make Things comfortable 47

• 11. Jarl afflicted with the Lockjaw 50

• 12. More about being in an open Boat 52

• 13. Of the Chondropterygii, and other uncouth Hordes infesting
  the South Seas 54

• 14. Jarl's Misgivings 59

• 15. A Stitch in time saves Nine 62

• 16. They are Becalmed 64

• 17. In high Spirits they push on for the Terra Incognita 67

• 18. My Lord Shark and his Pages 69

• 19. Who goes there? 72

• 20. Noises and Portents 79

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• 21. Man ho! 83

• 22. What befel the Brigantine at the Pearl Shell Islands 86

• 23. Sailing from the Island they pillage the Cabin 93

• 24. Dedicated to the College of Physicians and Surgeons 96

• 25. Peril a Peace-maker 99

• 26. Containing a Pennyweight of Philosophy 102

• 27. In which the past History of the Parki is concluded 104

• 28. Suspicions laid, and something about the Calmuc 108

• 29. What they lighted upon in further searching the Craft,
  and the Resolution they came to 113

• 30. Hints for a full length of Samoa 119

• 31. Rovings Alow and Aloft 121

• 32. Xiphius Platypterus 125

• 33. Otard 129

• 34. How they steered on their Way 131

• 35. Ah, Annatoo! 137

• 36. The Parki gives up the Ghost 141

• 37. Once more they take to the Chamois 144

• 38. The Sea on Fire 146

• 39. They fall in with Strangers 150

• 40. Sire and Sons 156

• 41. A Fray 158

• 42. Remorse 162

• 43. The Tent entered 165

• 44. Away! 167

• 45. Reminiscences 171

• 46. The Chamois with a roving Commission 173

• 47. Yillah, Jarl, and Samoa 175

• 48. Something under the Surface 177

• 49. Yillah 181

• 50. Yillah in Ardair 183

• 51. The Dream begins to fade 188

• 52. World ho! 190

• 53. The Chamois Ashore 193

• 54. A Gentleman from the Sun 196

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• 55. Tiffin in a Temple 199

• 56. King Media a Host 202

• 57. Taji takes Counsel with himself 205

• 58. Mardi by Night and Yillah by Day 210

• 59. Their Morning Meal 212

• 60. Belshazzar on the Bench 215

• 61. An Incognito 220

• 62. Taji retires from the World 222

• 63. Odo and its Lord 225

• 64. Yillah a Phantom 228

• 65. Taji makes three Acquaintances 231

• 66. With a fair Wind at Sunrise they sail 234

• 67. Little King Peepi 237

• 68. How Teeth were regarded in Valapee 241

• 69. The Company discourse, and Braid-Beard rehearses a
  Legend 244

• 70. The Minstrel leads of with a Paddle-Song; and a Message
  is received from Abroad 250

• 71. They land upon the Island of Juam 253

• 72. A Book from the Chronicles of Mohi 256

• 73. Something more of the Prince 261

• 74. Advancing deeper into the Vale, they encounter Donjalolo 263

• 75. Time and Temples 266

• 76. A pleasant Place for a Lounge 270

• 77. The House of the Afternoon 272

• 78. Babbalanja solus 275

• 79. The Center of many Circumferences 278

• 80. Donjalolo in the Bosom of his Family 280

• 81. Wherein Babbalanja relates the Advanture of one Karkeke
  in the Land of Shades 285

• 82. How Donjalolo, sent Agents to the surrounding Isles;
  with the Result 288

• 83. They visit the Tributary Islets 291

• 84. Taji sits down to Dinner with five-and-twenty Kings, and
  a royal Time they have 293

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• 85. After Dinner 302

• 86. Of those Scamps the Plujii 304

• 87. Nora-Bamma 307

• 88. In a Calm, Hautia's Heralds approach 309

• 89. Braid-Beard rehearses the Origin of the Isle of Rogues 311

• 90. Rare Sport at Ohonoo 314

• 91. Of King Uhia and his Subjects 317

• 92. The God Keevi and the Precipice of Mondo 319

• 93. Babbalanja steps in between Mohi and Yoomy; and Yoomy
  relates a Legend 322

• 94. Of that jolly old Lord, Borabolla; and that jolly Island of
  his, Mondoldo; and of the Fish-ponds, and the Hereafters
  of Fish 328

• 95. That jolly old Lord Borabolla laughs on both Sides of his
  Face 334

• 96. Samoa a Surgeon 338

• 97. Faith and Knowledge 341

• 98. The Tale of a Traveler 343

• 99. “Marnee Ora, Ora Marnee.” 345

• 100. The Pursuer himself is pursued 350

• 101. The Iris 355

• 102. They depart from Mondoldo 356

• 103. As they sail 358

• 104. Wherein Babbalanja broaches a diabolical Theory, and
  in his own Person proves it: 361