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Israel Potter

his fifty years in exile
Melville, Herman (1819-1891)
  
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CONTENTS.

 1. 
CHAPTER I. THE BIRTHPLACE OF ISRAEL.
 2. 
CHAPTER II. THE YOUTHFUL ADVENTURES OF ISRAEL.
 3. 
CHAPTER III. ISRAEL GOES TO THE WARS; AND REACHING BUNKER HILL IN TIME TO BE OF SERVICE THERE, SOON AFTER IS FORCED TO EXTEND HIS TRAVELS ACROSS THE SEA INTO THE ENEMY'S LAND.
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CHAPTER IV. FURTHER WANDERINGS OF THE REFUGEE, WITH SOME ACCOUNT OF A GOOD KNIGHT OF BRENTFORD WHO BEFRIENDED HIM.
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CHAPTER V. ISRAEL IN THE LION'S DEN.
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CHAPTER VI. ISRAEL MAKES THE ACQUAINTANCE OF CERTAIN SECRET FRIENDS OF AMERICA, ONE OF THEM BEING THE FAMOUS AUTHOR OF THE “DIVERSIONS OF PURLEY.” THESE DESPATCH HIM ON A SLY ERRAND ACROSS THE CHANNEL.
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CHAPTER VII. AFTER A CURIOUS ADVENTURE UPON THE PONT NEUF, ISRAEL ENTERS THE PRESENCE OF THE RENOWNED SAGE, DR. FRANKLIN, WHOM HE FINDS RIGHT LEARNEDLY AND MULTIFARIOUSLY EMPLOYED.
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CHAPTER VIII. WHICH HAS SOMETHING TO SAY ABOUT DR. FRANKLIN AND THE LATIN QUARTER.
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CHAPTER IX. ISRAEL IS INITIATED INTO THE MYSTERIES OF LODGING-HOUSES IN THE LATIN QUARTER.
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CHAPTER X. ANOTHER ADVENTURER APPEARS UPON THE SCENE.
 11. 
CHAPTER XI. PAUL JONES IN A REVERIE.
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CHAPTER XII. RECROSSING THE CHANNEL, ISRAEL RETURNS TO THE SQUIRE'S ABODE—HIS ADVENTURES THERE.
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CHAPTER XIII. HIS ESCAPE FROM THE HOUSE, WITH VARIOUS ADVENTURES FOLLOWING.
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CHAPTER XVI. IN WHICH ISRAEL IS SAILOR UNDER TWO FLAGS, AND IN THREE SHIPS, AND ALL IN ONE NIGHT.
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CHAPTER XV. THEY SAIL AS FAR AS THE CRAG OF AILSA.
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CHAPTER XVI. THEY LOOK IN AT CARRICKFERGUS, AND DESCEND ON WHITEHAVEN.
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CHAPTER XVII. THEY CALL AT THE EARL OF SELKIRK'S, AND AFTERWARDS FIGHT THE SHIP-OF-WAR DRAKE.
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CHAPTER XVIII. THE EXPEDITION THAT SAILED FROM GROIX.
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CHAPTER XIX. THEY FIGHT THE SERAPIS.
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CHAPTER XIX. CONTINUED.
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CHAPTER XX. THE SHUTTLE.
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CHAPTER XXI. SAMSON AMONG THE PHILISTINES.
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CHAPTER XXII. SOMETHING FURTHER OF ETHAN ALLEN; WITH ISRAEL'S FLIGHT TOWARDS THE WILDERNESS.
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CHAPTER XXIII. ISRAEL IN EGYPT.
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CHAPTER XXIV. CONTINUED.
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CHAPTER XXV. IN THE CITY OF DIS.
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CHAPTER XXVI. FORTY-FIVE YEARS.
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CHAPTER XXVII. REQUIESCAT IN PACE.

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ISRAEL POTTER:
His Fifty Years of Erile.

BY

HERMAN MELVILLE,


AUTHOR OF “TYPEE,” “OMOO,” ETC.

New York:

G. P. PUTNAM & CO., 10 PARK PLACE.

1855.
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Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1855,
By G. P. Putnam and Company,
In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States for the Southern District
of New York.
Printed and Stereotyped by Billin and Brother, 20 North William St., N. Y.
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