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Merchants--Another Idea of the
Pilot's--Susan, vice Sophia
CHAPTER V.

Allotment of Quarters--A Horse Marine--Travelling Plants--Change of
Dynasty in England--A Woman's Kingdom--Sheep converted into
Chops--Resurrection of the Fried Fish--A Secret
CHAPTER VI.
The Queen's Doll--Rockhouse to Falcon's Nest--The
Wind--Grasses--Admiral Homer--The Three Frogs--Oat
Jelly--Esquimaux Astronomy--An Unknown
CHAPTER VII.
The Search for the Unknown--Three Fleets on Dry Land--The
Indiscretions of a Sugar Cane--Larboard and Starboard--The supposed
Sensibility of Plants--The Fly-trap--Vendetta--Root and Germ--Mine
and Countermine--The Polypi--Oviparous and Viviparous--A Quid pro
Quo
CHAPTER VIII.
Inhabitant of the Moon, Anthropophagian or Hobgoblin?--The
Lacedemonian Stew of Madame Dacier--Utile Dulci--Tête-à-tête
between Willis and his Pipe--Tobacco versus Birch--Is it for
Eating?--Mosquitoes--The Alarm--Toby--The Nocturnal
Expedition--We've got him
CHAPTER IX.
The Chimpanzee--Imperfect Negro, or Perfect Ape--The Harmonies of
Nature--A Handful of Paws--A Stone Skin--Seventeen Spectacles on
one Nose--Animalculæ--Pelion on Ossa--Ptolemy--Copernicus to
Galileo--Metaphysics and Cosmogonies--A live Tiger
CHAPTER X.
The Pioneers--Excursion to Coromandel--Hindoo Fancies--A Caged
Hunter--Louis XI and Cardinal Balue--A Furlong of

News--Carnage--The Baronet and his seventeen Tigers--Fifty-four feet
of Celebrity--Sterne's Window--Promenade of the
Consciences--Emulation and Vanity
CHAPTER XI.
On the Watch--Fecundity of Plants and Animals--Latest News from the
Moon--A Death-Knell every Second--The Inconveniences of being too
near the Sun--Narcotics--Willis contralto--Hunting turned upside
down--Electric Clouds--Partialities of Lightning--Bells and
Bellringers--Conducting Rods--The Return--The Two Sisters--Toby
becomes a Dragoman
CHAPTER XII.
Man proposes, but God disposes--The Choice of a
Profession--Conqueror--Orator--Astronomer--Composer--Painter--Poet
--Village Curate--The Kafirs--Occupations of Women--The Alpha and
Omega of the Sea
CHAPTER XIII.
Herbert and Cecilia--The little Angels--A Catastrophe--The
Departure--Marriage of the Doge with the Adriatic--Sovereigns of the
Sea--Dante and Beatrix--Eleonora and Tasso--Laura and Petrarch--The
Return--Surprises--What one finds in Turbots--A Horror--The Price of
Crime--Ballooning--Philipson and the Cholera--A
Metamorphosis--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 at
Peace--Alas, poor Mary!--The same Breath for two Beings--The first
Pillow--The Logic of the Heart--How Fritz supported Grief--A Grain of
Sand and the Himalaya

CHAPTER XV.
God's Government--King Stanislaus--The Dauphin son of Louis
XV.--The shortest Road--New Year's Day--A Miracle--Clever
Animals--The Calendar--Mr. Julius Cæsar and Pope Gregory
XIII.--How the day after the 4th of October was the
15th--Olympiads--Lustres--The Hegira--A Horse made Consul--Jack's
Dream
CHAPTER XVI.
Separation--Guelphs and Ghibelines--Montagues and
Capulets--Sadness--The Reunion--Jocko and his Education--The
Entertainments of a King--The Mules of Nero and the Asses of
Poppæa--Hercules and Achilles--Liberty and Equality--Semiramis and
Elizabeth--Christianity and the Religion of Zoroaster--The Willisonian
Method--Moral Discipline versus Birch
CHAPTER XVII.
Where there's a Will there's a Way--Mucius Scævola--What's to be
done?--Brutus Torquatus and Peter the Great--Australia, Botany Bay,
and the Flying Dutchman--New Guinea and the
Buccaneer--Vancouver's Island--White Skins--Danger of Landing on a
Wave--Hanged or Drowned--Route to Happiness--Omens
CHAPTER XVIII.
Bacon and Biscuit--Let Sleeping Dogs Lie--The Paternal
Benediction--An Apparition--A Mother not easily deceived--The
Adieu--The Emperor Constantine--hoc signo vinces--The Sailor's
Postscript--Cæsar and his Fortunes--Recollections--Mrs. Becker plucks
Stockings and Knits Ortolans--How delightful it is to be Scolded--The
Bodies vanish, but the Souls remain
CHAPTER XIX.

Eighteen Hundred and Twelve--The _Mary_--Count Ugolino--The
Sources of Rivers--The Alps demolished--No more Pyrenees--The First
Ship--Admiral Noah--Fleets of the Israelites--The
Compass--Printing--Gunpowder--Actium and Salamis--Dido and
Æolus--Steam--Don Garay and Roger Bacon--Melchthal, Furst, and
William Tell--Going a-pleasuring--Upset versus blown up--A Dead
Calm--The Log--Willis's Archipelago--The Island of Sophia--The
Bread Fruit-tree--Natives of Polynesia--Striped Trowsers--Abduction
of Willis--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 the Far
West--A late Breakfast--Rono the Great--A Polynesian
Legend--Manners and Customs of Oceanica Mr. and Mrs.
Tamaidi--Regal Pomp--Elbow Room--Katzenmusik--Queen Tonico
and the Shaving Glass--Consequences of a Pinch of Snuff--Disgrace of
the Great
Rono--Marins--Coriolanus--Hannibal--Alcibiades--Cimon--Aristides--
A Sop for the Thirsty--Air something else besides Oxygen and
Hydrogen--Maryland and Whitechapel--Half-way up the
Cordilleras--Human Machines--Star of the Sea, pray for us!
CHAPTER XXI.
Lying-to--Heart and Instinct--Sparrows viewed as
Consumers--Migrations--Posting a Letter in the
Pacific--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 else
besides 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
Joan of Arc--Poitier and Bovines--History of a Ghost, a Gridiron, and a
Chest of Guineas
CHAPTER XXVI.
Willis falls in with the Sloop on terra firma, instead of at the bottom of
the Sea, as might have been expected--Admiral Cicero--The Defunct
not yet Dead
CHAPTER XXVII.
Captain Littlestone is found, and the Rev. Mr. Wolston is seen for the
first time
CHAPTER XXVIII.
Willis proves that the only way to be free is to get sent to Prison--An
Escape--A Discovery--Promotions--Somnambulism
Conclusion
CHAPTER I.
THE COLONY--REFLECTIONS ON THE PAST--IDEAS OF
WILLIS THE PILOT--SOPHIA WOLSTON.
The early adventures of the Swiss family, who were wrecked on an

unknown coast in the Pacific Ocean, have already been given to the
world. There are, however, many interesting details in their subsequent
career which have not been made public. These, and the conversations
with which they enlivened the long, dreary