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Title: The Works Of Mark Twain
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Mark Twain's Autobiography: Volume One Volume Two Newspaper Articles by Mark Twain—1862-1881 |
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Stormfield's Vist to Heaven A Horse's Tale Is Shakespeare Dead? The Man who Corrupted Hadleyburg |
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CHAPTER I. The Earl of Rossmore vs. the American Claimant—Viscount Berkeley proposes to change places with the Claimant— The Claimant's letter—Lord Berkeley decides to visit America CHAPTER II. Colonel Mulberry Sellers and his art gallery—He receives a visit from Washington Hawkins—Talking over old times —Washington informs the colonel that he is the congressional delegate from Cherokee Strip. CHAPTER III. Mrs. Sellers pronounces the colonel "the same old scheming, generous, good-hearted, moonshiny, hopeful, no-account failure he always was"—He takes in Dan'l and Jinny— The colonel originates "Pigs in the Clover"—He offers one of his art treasures to propitiate Suggs—One-armed Pete; the bank thief CHAPTER IV. A Yankee makes an offer for "Pigs in the Clover"—By the death of a relative Sellers becomes the rightful Earl of Rossmore and consequently the American Clairnant— Gwendolen is sent for from school—The remains of the late Claimant and brother to be shipped to England— Hawkins and Sellers nail the hatchments on "Rossmore Towers" CHAPTER V. Gwendolen's letter—Her arrival at home—Hawkins is introduced, to his great pleasure—Communication from the bank thief— Hawkins and Sellers have to wait ten days longer before getting the reward—Viscount Berkeley and the late Claimant's remains start simultaneously from England and America CHAPTER VI. Arrival of the remains of late Claimant and brother in England —The usurping earl officiates as chief mourner, and they are laid with their kindred in Cholmondeley church—Sally Sellers a gifted costume-designer—Another communication from the bank thief—Locating him in the New Gadsby— The colonel's glimpse of one—armed Pete in the elevator— Arrival of Viscount Berkeley at the same hotel CHAPTER VII. Viscount Berkeley jots down his "impressions" to date with a quill pen—The destruction of the New Gadsby by fire— Berkeley loses his bearings and escapes with his journaled "impressions" only—Discovery and hasty donning of one-armed Pete's abandoned wardrobe—Glowing and affecting account in the morning papers of the heroic death of the heir of Rossmore—He will take a new name and start out "incog" CHAPTER VIII. The colonel's grief at the loss of both Berkeley and one-armed Pete—Materialization—Breaking the news to the family— The colonel starts to identify and secure a body (or ashes) to send to the bereaved father CHAPTER IX. The usual actress and her diamonds in the hotel fire—The colonel secures three baskets of ashes—Mrs. Sellers forbids their lying in state—Generous hatchments—The ashes to be sent only when the earl sends for them CHAPTER X. Lord Berkeley deposits the $500 found in his appropriated clothes—Attends "Mechanics' Debating Club"—Berkeley (alias Tracy) is glad he came to this country CHAPTER XI. No work for Tracy—Cheaper lodgings secured—Sleeping on the roof—"My daughter Hattie"—Tracy receives further "impressions" from Hattie (otherwise "Puss")—Mr. Barrow appears—And offers to help Tracy find work CHAPTER XII. A boarding—house dinner—"No money, no dinner" for Mr. Brady—"How did you come to mount that hat?"—A glimpse of (the supposed) one-armed Pete—Extract from Tracy's diary |
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XIII. Tracy and trades-unions—Unpopularity with fellow-boarders —Which changes to popularity on his punishing Allen— The cablegram CHAPTER XIV. "Mechanics' Debating Club" again—Tracy is comforted by Barrow's remarks—"Fool or no fool, he would grab it" —"Earldom! oh, yes, take it if it offers" CHAPTER XV. "You forgot to pay your board"—"I've been robbed "—Mr. Allen among the missing, likewise other things—The cablegram: "Thanks"—Despair of Tracy—"You've got to amuse your mind" CHAPTER XVI. The collaborative art collection—The artists—"The cannon's our trademark"—Tracy's mind is amused CHAPTER XVII. No further cablegram—"If those ghastly artists want a confederate, I'm their man"—Tracy taken into partnership—Disappointments of materialization — The phonograph adapted to marine service —Utilization of wasted sewer gas CHAPTER XVIII. The colonel's project to set Russia free—"I am going to buy Siberia"—The materializee turns up—Being an artist he is invited to restore the colonel's collection—Which he forthwith begins CHAPTER XIX. The perplexities and nobilities of materialization—The materializee eats a couple of apples—Horror of Hawkins and Sellers—It must be a mistake" CHAPTER XX. Tracy's perplexities with regard to the Claimant's sanity— The Claimant interviews him—Sally Sellers meets Tracy —A violent case of love at first sight—Pinks CHAPTER XXI. Empty painting; empty millinerizing—Tracy's work satisfactory— Sellers's new picture of Lord Berkeley—"He is a wobbler"— The unsuccessful dinner—parties—"They flung their arms about each other's necks" CHAPTER XXII. "The materializing has got to stop where it is"—Sally Sellers repudiates "Lady Gwendolen"—The late Lord Berkeley Sally's hero— "The shady devil [Doubt] had knifed her" CHAPTER XXIII. Tracy writes to his father—The rival houses to be united by his marriage to Sally Sellers—The earl decides to "step over and take a hand"—"The course of true love," etc., as usual—"You an earl's son! show me the signs" CHAPTER XXIV. Time drags heavily for all concerned—Success of "Pigs in the Clover"—Sellers is "fixed" for his temperance lecture— Colonel and Mrs. Sellers start for Europe—Interview of Hawkins and Sally—Tracy an impostor CHAPTER XXV. Telegram: "She's going to marry the materializee"—Interview between Tracy and Sally—Arrival of the usurping earl— "You can have him if you'll take him"—A quiet wedding at the Towers—Sellers does not join the party to England— Preparing to furnish climates to order APPENDIX. The weather in this book |
| 1. Book Cover |
| 2. Frontpiece |
| 3. By-and-by Came My Little Puppy |
| 4. Flocked In To Hear Of My Heroism |
| 5. You Saved HIS Child |
Chapter I.Chapter II.Chapter III. |
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| Chapter 2 |
| Chapter 3 |
| Chapter 4 |
| Chapter 5 |
| Chapter 6 |
| Chapter 7 |
| Chapter 8 |
| Chapter 9 |
| Chapter 10 |
| Chapter 11 |
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| A FABLE |
| HUNTING THE DECEITFUL TURKEY |
| THE McWILLIAMSES AND THE BURGLAR ALARM |
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| V |
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| CHAPTER I. | THE TWINS AS THEY REALLY WERE |
| CHAPTER II. | MA COOPER GETS ALL MIXED UP |
| CHAPTER III. | ANGELO IS BLUE |
| CHAPTER IV. | SUPERNATURAL CHRONOMETRY |
| CHAPTER V. | GUILT AND INNOCENCE FINELY BLENT |
| CHAPTER VI. | THE AMAZING DUEL |
| CHAPTER VII. | LUIGI DEFIES GALEN |
| CHAPTER VIII. | BAPTISM OF THE BETTER HALF |
| CHAPTER IX. | THE DRINKLESS DRUNK |
| CHAPTER X. | SO THEY HANGED LUIGI |
| FINAL REMARKS. | |
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| Chapter 2 |
| Chapter 3 |
| Chapter 4 |
| Chapter 5 |
| Chapter 6 |
| Chapter 7 |
| Chapter 8 |
| Chapter 9 |
| Chapter 10 |
| Chapter 11 |
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| A FABLE |
| HUNTING THE DECEITFUL TURKEY |
| THE McWILLIAMSES AND THE BURGLAR ALARM |
| INTRODUCTION |
| THE FIRST PRINTING: Verbatim Reprint |
| FOOTNOTES To Frivolity |
| PARTIAL BIBLIOGRAPHY |
| LETTER I |
| LETTER II |
| LETTER III |
| LETTER IV |
| LETTER V |
| LETTER VI |
| LETTER VII |
| WHAT PAUL BOURGET THINKS OF US |
| A LITTLE NOTE TO M. PAUL BOURGET |
| HOW TO TELL A STORY |
| THE WOUNDED SOLDIER. |
| THE GOLDEN ARM. |
| MENTAL TELEGRAPHY AGAIN |
| THE INVALID'S STORY |
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| CHAPTER I. | TOM SEEKS NEW ADVENTURES |
| CHAPTER II. | THE BALLOON ASCENSION |
| CHAPTER III. | TOM EXPLAINS |
| CHAPTER IV. | STORM |
| CHAPTER V. | LAND |
| CHAPTER VI. | IT'S A CARAVAN |
| CHAPTER VII. | TOM RESPECTS THE FLEA |
| CHAPTER VIII. | THE DISAPPEARING LAKE |
| CHAPTER IX. | TOM DISCOURSES ON THE DESERT |
| CHAPTER X. | THE TREASURE-HILL |
| CHAPTER XI. | THE SAND-STORM |
| CHAPTER XII. | JIM STANDING SIEGE |
| CHAPTER XIII. | GOING FOR TOM'S PIPE |
| CHAPTER I. | AN INVITATION FOR TOM AND HUCK |
| CHAPTER II. | JAKE DUNLAP |
| CHAPTER III. | A DIAMOND ROBBERY |
| CHAPTER IV. | THE THREE SLEEPERS |
| CHAPTER V. | A TRAGEDY IN THE WOODS |
| CHAPTER VI. | PLANS TO SECURE THE DIAMONDS |
| CHAPTER VII. | A NIGHT'S VIGIL |
| CHAPTER VIII. | TALKING WITH THE GHOST |
| CHAPTER IX. | FINDING OF JUBITER DUNLAP |
| CHAPTER X. | THE ARREST OF UNCLE SILAS |
| CHAPTER XI. | TOM SAWYER DISCOVERS THE MURDERERS |
| CHAPTER I. | Popular Talk of the Excursion—Programme of the Trip—Duly Ticketed for the Excursion—Defection of the Celebrities |
| CHAPTER II. | Grand Preparations—An Imposing Dignitary—The European Exodus— Mr. Blucher’s Opinion—Stateroom No. 10—The Assembling of the Clans— At Sea at Last |
| CHAPTER III. | “Averaging” the Passengers—Far, far at Sea.—Tribulation among the Patriarchs—Seeking Amusement under Difficulties—Five Captains in the Ship |
| CHAPTER IV. | The Pilgrims Becoming Domesticated—Pilgrim Life at Sea—“Horse- Billiards”—The “Synagogue”—The Writing School—Jack’s “Journal”— The “Q. C. Club”—The Magic Lantern—State Ball on Deck—Mock Trials— Charades—Pilgrim Solemnity—Slow Music—The Executive Officer Delivers an Opinion |
| CHAPTER V. | Summer in Mid-Atlantic—An Eccentric Moon—Mr. Blucher Loses Confidence—The Mystery of “Ship Time”—The Denizens of the Deep—“Land Hoh”— The First Landing on a Foreign Shore—Sensation among the Natives— Something about the Azores Islands—Blucher’s Disastrous Dinner— The Happy Result |
| CHAPTER VI. | Solid Information—A Fossil Community—Curious Ways and Customs—Jesuit Humbuggery—Fantastic Pilgrimizing—Origin of the Russ Pavement— Squaring Accounts with the Fossils—At Sea Again |
| CHAPTER VII. | A Tempest at Night—Spain and Africa on Exhibition—Greeting a Majestic Stranger—The Pillars of Hercules—The Rock of Gibraltar—Tiresome Repetition—“The Queen’s Chair”—Serenity Conquered—Curiosities of the Secret Caverns—Personnel of Gibraltar—Some Odd Characters—A Private Frolic in Africa—Bearding a Moorish Garrison (without loss of life)—Vanity Rebuked—Disembarking in the Empire of Morocco |
| CHAPTER VIII. | The Ancient City of Tangier, Morocco—Strange Sights—A Cradle of Antiquity—We become Wealthy—How they Rob the Mail in Africa—The Danger of being Opulent in Morocco |
| CHAPTER IX. | A Pilgrim—in Deadly Peril—How they Mended the Clock—Moorish Punishments for Crime—Marriage Customs—Looking Several ways for Sunday—Shrewd, Practice of Mohammedan Pilgrims—Reverence for Cats—Bliss of being a Consul-General |
| CHAPTER X. | Fourth of July at Sea—Mediterranean Sunset—The “Oracle” is Delivered of an Opinion—Celebration Ceremonies—The Captain’s Speech—France in Sight—The Ignorant Native—In Marseilles—Another Blunder—Lost in the Great City—Found Again—A Frenchy Scene |
| CHAPTER XI. | Getting used to it—No Soap—Bill of Fare, Table d’hote—“An American Sir”—A Curious Discovery—The “Pilgrim” Bird—Strange Companionship—A Grave of the Living—A Long Captivity—Some of Dumas’ Heroes—Dungeon of the Famous “Iron Mask.” |
| CHAPTER XII. | A Holiday Flight through France—Summer Garb of the Landscape—Abroad on the Great Plains—Peculiarities of French Cars—French Politeness American Railway Officials—“Twenty Minutes to Dinner!”—Why there are no Accidents—The “Old Travellers”—Still on the Wing—Paris at Last——French Order and Quiet—Place of the Bastile—Seeing the Sights—A Barbarous Atrocity—Absurd Billiards |
| CHAPTER XIII. | More Trouble—Monsieur Billfinger—Re-Christening the Frenchman—In the Clutches of a Paris Guide—The International Exposition—Fine Military Review—Glimpse of the Emperor Napoleon and the Sultan of Turkey |
| CHAPTER XIV. | The Venerable Cathedral of Notre-Dame—Jean Sanspeur’s Addition—Treasures and Sacred Relics—The Legend of the Cross—The Morgue—The Outrageious ‘Can-Can’—Blondin Aflame—The Louvre Palace—The Great Park—Showy Pageantry—Preservation of Noted Things |
| CHAPTER XV. | French National Burying—Ground—Among the Great Dead—The Shrine of Disappointed Love—The Story of Abelard and Heloise—“English Spoken Here”—“American Drinks Compounded Here”—Imperial Honors to an American—The Over-estimated Grisette—Departure from Paris—A Deliberate Opinion Concerning the Comeliness of American Women |
| CHAPTER XVI. | Versailles—Paradise Regained—A Wonderful Park—Paradise Lost—Napoleonic Strategy |
| CHAPTER XVII. | War—The American Forces Victorious—“Home Again”—Italy in Sight The “City of Palaces”—Beauty of the Genoese Women—The “Stub-Hunters”—Among the Palaces—Gifted Guide—Church Magnificence—“Women not Admitted”—How the Genoese Live—Massive Architecture—A Scrap of Ancient History—Graves for 60,000 |
| CHAPTER XVIII. | Flying Through Italy—Marengo—First Glimpse of the Famous Cathedral—Description of some of its Wonders—A Horror Carved in Stone——An Unpleasant Adventure—A Good Man—A Sermon from the Tomb—Tons of Gold and Silver—Some More Holy Relics—Solomon’s Temple |
| CHAPTER XIX | “Do You Wiz zo Haut can be?”—La Scala—Petrarch and Laura—Lucrezia Borgia—Ingenious Frescoes—Ancient Roman Amphitheatre—A Clever Delusion—Distressing Billiards—The Chief Charm of European Life—An Italian Bath—Wanted: Soap—Crippled French—Mutilated English—The Most Celebrated Painting in the World—Amateur Raptures—Uninspired Critics—Anecdote—A Wonderful Echo—A Kiss for a Franc |
| CHAPTER XX. | Rural Italy by Rail—Fumigated, According to Law—The Sorrowing Englishman—Night by the Lake of Como—The Famous Lake—Its Scenery—Como compared with Tahoe—Meeting a Shipmate |
| CHAPTER XXI. | The Pretty Lago di Lecco--A Carriage Drive in the Country--Astonishing Sociability in a Coachman--Sleepy Land--Bloody Shrines--The Heart and Home of Priestcraft--A Thrilling Mediaeval Romance--The Birthplace of Harlequin--Approaching Venice |
| CHAPTER XXII. | Night in Venice--The “Gay Gondolier"--The Grand Fete by Moonlight--The Notable Sights of Venice--The Mother of the Republics Desolate |
| CHAPTER XXIII. | The Famous Gondola--The Gondola in an Unromantic Aspect--The Great Square of St. Mark and the Winged Lion--Snobs, at Home and Abroad--Sepulchres of the Great Dead--A Tilt at the “Old Masters"--A Contraband Guide--The Conspiracy--Moving Again |
| CHAPTER XXIV. | Down Through Italy by Rail--Idling in Florence--Dante and Galileo--An Ungrateful City--Dazzling Generosity--Wonderful Mosaics--The Historical Arno--Lost Again--Found Again, but no Fatted Calf Ready--The Leaning Tower of Pisa--The Ancient Duomo--The Old Original First Pendulum that Ever Swung--An Enchanting Echo--A New Holy Sepulchre--A Relic of Antiquity--A Fallen Republic--At Leghorn--At Home Again, and Satisfied, on Board the Ship--Our Vessel an Object of Grave Suspicion--Garibaldi Visited--Threats of Quarantine |
| CHAPTER XXV. | The Works of Bankruptcy--Railway Grandeur--How to Fill an Empty Treasury--The Sumptuousness of Mother Church--Ecclesiastical Splendor--Magnificence and Misery--General Execration--More Magnificence A Good Word for the Priests--Civita Vecchia the Dismal--Off for Rome |
| CHAPTER XXVI. | The Modern Roman on His Travels--The Grandeur of St. Peter’s--Holy Relics--Grand View from the Dome--The Holy Inquisition--Interesting Old Monkish Frauds--The Ruined Coliseum--The Coliseum in the Days of its Prime--Ancient Playbill of a Coliseum Performance--A Roman Newspaper Criticism 1700 Years Old |
| CHAPTER XXVII. | “Butchered to Make a Roman Holiday"--The Man who Never Complained--An Exasperating Subject--Asinine Guides--The Roman Catacombs The Saint Whose Fervor Burst his Ribs--The Miracle of the Bleeding Heart--The Legend of Ara Coeli |
| CHAPTER XXVIII. | Picturesque Horrors--The Legend of Brother Thomas--Sorrow Scientifically Analyzed--A Festive Company of the Dead--The Great Vatican Museum Artist Sins of Omission--The Rape of the Sabines--Papal Protection of Art--High Price of “Old Masters"--Improved Scripture--Scale of Rank of the Holy Personages in Rome--Scale of Honors Accorded Them--Fossilizing--Away for Naples |
| CHAPTER XXIX. | Naples--In Quarantine at Last--Annunciation--Ascent of Mount Vesuvius--A Two Cent Community--The Black Side of Neapolitan Character--Monkish Miracles--Ascent of Mount Vesuvius Continued--The Stranger and the Hackman--Night View of Naples from the Mountain-side---Ascent of Mount Vesuvius Continued |
| CHAPTER XXX. | Ascent of Mount Vesuvius Continued--Beautiful View at Dawn--Less Beautiful in the Back Streets--Ascent of Vesuvius Continued--Dwellings a Hundred Feet High--A Motley Procession--Bill of Fare for a Peddler’s Breakfast--Princely Salaries--Ascent of Vesuvius Continued--An Average of Prices--The wonderful “Blue Grotto"--Visit to Celebrated Localities in the Bay of Naples--The Poisoned “Grotto of the Dog"--A Petrified Sea of Lava--Ascent of Mount Vesuvius Continued--The Summit Reached--Description of the Crater--Descent of Vesuvius |
| CHAPTER XXXI. | The Buried City of Pompeii—How Dwellings Appear that have been Unoccupied for Eighteen hundred years—The Judgment Seat—Desolation—The Footprints of the Departed—“No Women Admitted”—Theatres, Bakeshops, Schools—Skeletons preserved by the Ashes and Cinders—The Brave Martyr to Duty—Rip Van Winkle—The Perishable Nature of Fame |
| CHAPTER XXXII. | At Sea Once More—The Pilgrims all Well—Superb Stromboli—Sicily by Moonlight—Scylla and Charybdis—The “Oracle” at Fault—Skirting the Isles of Greece Ancient Athens—Blockaded by Quarantine and Refused Permission to Enter—Running the Blockade—A Bloodless Midnight Adventure—Turning Robbers from Necessity—Attempt to Carry the Acropolis by Storm—We Fail—Among the Glories of the Past—A World of Ruined Sculpture—A Fairy Vision—Famous Localities—Retreating in Good Order—Captured by the Guards—Travelling in Military State—Safe on Board Again |
| CHAPTER XXXIII. | Modern Greece—Fallen Greatness—Sailing Through the Archipelago and the Dardanelles—Footprints of History—The First Shoddy Contractor of whom History gives any Account—Anchored Before Constantinople—Fantastic Fashions—The Ingenious Goose-Rancher—Marvelous Cripples—The Great Mosque—The Thousand and One Columns—The Grand Bazaar of Stamboul |
| CHAPTER XXXIV. | Scarcity of Morals and Whiskey—Slave-Girl Market Report—Commercial Morality at a Discount—The Slandered Dogs of Constantinople—Questionable Delights of Newspaperdom in Turkey—Ingenious Italian Journalism—No More Turkish Lunches Desired—The Turkish Bath Fraud—The Narghileh Fraud—Jackplaned by a Native—The Turkish Coffee Fraud |
| CHAPTER XXXV. | Sailing Through the Bosporus and the Black Sea—“Far-Away Moses”—Melancholy Sebastopol—Hospitably Received in Russia—Pleasant English People—Desperate Fighting—Relic Hunting—How Travellers Form “Cabinets” |
| CHAPTER XXXVI. | Nine Thousand Miles East—Imitation American Town in Russia—Gratitude that Came Too Late—To Visit the Autocrat of All the Russias |
| CHAPTER XXXVII. | Summer Home of Royalty—Practising for the Dread Ordeal—Committee on Imperial Address—Reception by the Emperor and Family—Dresses of the Imperial Party—Concentrated Power—Counting the Spoons—At the Grand Duke’s—A Charming Villa—A Knightly Figure—The Grand Duchess—A Grand Ducal Breakfast—Baker’s Boy, the Famine-Breeder—Theatrical Monarchs a Fraud—Saved as by Fire—The Governor—General’s Visit to the Ship—Official “Style”—Aristocratic Visitors—“Munchausenizing” with Them—Closing Ceremonies |
| CHAPTER XXXVIII. | Return to Constantinople—We Sail for Asia—The Sailors Burlesque the Imperial Visitors—Ancient Smyrna—The “Oriental Splendor” Fraud—The “Biblical Crown of Life”—Pilgrim Prophecy-Savans—Sociable Armenian Girls—A Sweet Reminiscence—“The Camels are Coming, Ha-ha!” |
| CHAPTER XXXIX. | Smyrna’s Lions—The Martyr Polycarp—The “Seven Churches”—Remains of the Six Smyrnas—Mysterious Oyster Mine Oysters—Seeking Scenery—A Millerite Tradition—A Railroad Out of its Sphere |
| CHAPTER XL. | Journeying Toward Ancient Ephesus—Ancient Ayassalook—The Villanous Donkey—A Fantastic Procession—Bygone Magnificence—Fragments of History—The Legend of the Seven Sleepers |
| CHAPTER XLI. | Vandalism Prohibited—Angry Pilgrims—Approaching Holy Land!—The “Shrill Note of Preparation”—Distress About Dragomans and Transportation—The “Long Route” Adopted—In Syria—Something about Beirout—A Choice Specimen of a Greek “Ferguson”—Outfits—Hideous Horseflesh—Pilgrim “Style”—What of Aladdin’s Lamp? |
| CHAPTER XLII. | “Jacksonville,” in the Mountains of Lebanon—Breakfasting above a Grand Panorama—The Vanished City—The Peculiar Steed, “Jericho”—The Pilgrims Progress—Bible Scenes—Mount Hermon, Joshua’s Battle Fields, etc.—The Tomb of Noah—A Most Unfortunate People |
| CHAPTER XLIII. | Patriarchal Customs—Magnificent Baalbec—Description of the Ruins—Scribbling Smiths and Joneses—Pilgrim Fidelity to the Letter of the Law—The Revered Fountain of Baalam’s Ass |
| CHAPTER XLIV. | Extracts from Note-Book—Mahomet’s Paradise and the Bible’s—Beautiful Damascus the Oldest City on Earth—Oriental Scenes within the Curious Old City—Damascus Street Car—The Story of St. Paul—The “Street called Straight”—Mahomet’s Tomb and St. George’s—The Christian Massacre—Mohammedan Dread of Pollution—The House of Naaman—The Horrors of Leprosy |
| CHAPTER XLV. | The Cholera by way of Variety—Hot—Another Outlandish Procession—Pen and-Ink Photograph of “Jonesborough,” Syria—Tomb of Nimrod, the Mighty Hunter—The Stateliest Ruin of All—Stepping over the Borders of Holy-Land—Bathing in the Sources of Jordan—More “Specimen” Hunting—Ruins of Cesarea—Philippi—“On This Rock Will I Build my Church”—The People the Disciples Knew—The Noble Steed “Baalbec”—Sentimental Horse Idolatry of the Arabs |
| CHAPTER XLVI. | Dan—Bashan—Genessaret—A Notable Panorama—Smallness of Palestine—Scraps of History—Character of the Country—Bedouin Shepherds—Glimpses of the Hoary Past—Mr. Grimes’s Bedouins—A Battle—Ground of Joshua—That Soldier’s Manner of Fighting—Barak’s Battle—The Necessity of Unlearning Some Things—Desolation |
| CHAPTER XLVII. | “Jack’s Adventure”—Joseph’s Pit—The Story of Joseph—Joseph’s Magnanimity and Esau’s—The Sacred Lake of Genessaret—Enthusiasm of the Pilgrims—Why We did not Sail on Galilee—About Capernaum—Concerning the Saviour’s Brothers and Sisters—Journeying toward Magdela |
| CHAPTER XLVIII. | Curious Specimens of Art and Architecture—Public Reception of the Pilgrims—Mary Magdalen’s House—Tiberias and its Queer Inhabitants—The Sacred Sea of Galilee—Galilee by Night |
| CHAPTER XLIX. | The Ancient Baths—Ye Apparition—A Distinguished Panorama—The Last Battle of the Crusades—The Story of the Lord of Kerak—Mount Tabor—What one Sees from its Top—Memory of a Wonderful Garden—The House of Deborah the Prophetess |
| CHAPTER L. | Toward Nazareth—Bitten By a Camel—Grotto of the Annunciation, Nazareth—Noted Grottoes in General—Joseph’s Workshop—A Sacred Bowlder—The Fountain of the Virgin—Questionable Female Beauty—Literary Curiosities |
| CHAPTER LI. | Boyhood of the Saviour—Unseemly Antics of Sober Pilgrims—Home of the Witch of Endor—Nain—Profanation—A Popular Oriental Picture—Biblical Metaphors Becoming steadily More Intelligible—The Shuuem Miracle—The “Free Son of The Desert”—Ancient Jezrael—Jehu’s Achievements—Samaria and its Famous Siege |
| CHAPTER LII. | Curious Remnant of the Past—Shechem—The Oldest “First Family” on Earth—The Oldest Manuscript Extant—The Genuine Tomb of Joseph—Jacob’s Well—Shiloh—Camping with the Arabs—Jacob’s Ladder—More Desolation—Ramah, Beroth, the Tomb of Samuel, The Fountain of Beira—Impatience—Approaching Jerusalem—The Holy City in Sight—Noting Its Prominent Features—Domiciled Within the Sacred Walls |
| CHAPTER LIII. | “The Joy of the Whole Earth”—Description of Jerusalem—Church of the Holy Sepulchre—The Stone of Unction—The Grave of Jesus—Graves of Nicodemus and Joseph of Armattea—Places of the Apparition—The Finding of the There Crosses——The Legend—Monkish Impostures—The Pillar of Flagellation—The Place of a Relic—Godfrey’s Sword—“The Bonds of Christ”—“The Center of the Earth”—Place whence the Dust was taken of which Adam was Made—Grave of Adam—The Martyred Soldier—The Copper Plate that was on the Cross—The Good St. Helena—Place of the Division of the Garments—St. Dimas, the Penitent Thief—The Late Emperor Maximilian’s Contribution—Grotto wherein the Crosses were Found, and the Nails, and the Crown of Thorns—Chapel of the Mocking—Tomb of Melchizedek—Graves of Two Renowned Crusaders—The Place of the Crucifixion |
| CHAPTER LIV. | The “Sorrowful Way”—The Legend of St. Veronica’s Handkerchief—An Illustrious Stone—House of the Wandering Jew—The Tradition of the Wanderer—Solomon’s Temple—Mosque of Omar—Moslem Traditions—“Women not Admitted”—The Fate of a Gossip—Turkish Sacred Relics—Judgment Seat of David and Saul—Genuine Precious Remains of Solomon’s Temple—Surfeited with Sights—The Pool of Siloam—The Garden of Gethsemane and Other Sacred Localities |
| CHAPTER LV. | Rebellion in the Camp—Charms of Nomadic Life—Dismal Rumors—En Route for Jericho and The Dead Sea—Pilgrim Strategy—Bethany and the Dwelling of Lazarus—“Bedouins!”—Ancient Jericho—Misery—The Night March—The Dead Sea—An Idea of What a “Wilderness” in Palestine is—The Holy hermits of Mars Saba—Good St. Saba—Women not Admitted—Buried from the World for all Time—Unselfish Catholic Benevolence—Gazelles—The Plain of the Shepherds—Birthplace of the Saviour, Bethlehem—Church of the Nativity—Its Hundred Holy Places—The Famous “Milk” Grotto—Tradition—Return to Jerusalem—Exhausted |
| CHAPTER LVI. | Departure from Jerusalem—Samson—The Plain of Sharon—Arrival at Joppa—Horse of Simon the Tanner—The Long Pilgrimage Ended—Character of Palestine Scenery—The Curse |
| CHAPTER LVII. | The Happiness of being at Sea once more—“Home” as it is in a Pleasure Ship—“Shaking Hands” with the Vessel—Jack in Costume—His Father’s Parting Advice—Approaching Egypt—Ashore in Alexandria—A Deserved Compliment for the Donkeys—Invasion of the Lost Tribes of America—End of the Celebrated “Jaffa Colony”—Scenes in Grand Cairo—Shepheard’s Hotel Contrasted with a Certain American Hotel—Preparing for the Pyramids |
| CHAPTER LVIII. | “Recherche” Donkeys—A Wild Ride—Specimens of Egyptian Modesty—Moses in the Bulrushes—Place where the Holy Family Sojourned—Distant view of the Pyramids—A Nearer View—The Ascent—Superb View from the top of the Pyramid—“Backsheesh! Backsheesh!”—An Arab Exploit—In the Bowels of the Pyramid—Strategy—Reminiscence of “Holiday’s Hill”—Boyish Exploit—The Majestic Sphynx—Things the Author will not Tell—Grand Old Egypt |
| CHAPTER LIX. | Going Home—A Demoralized Note-Book—A Boy’s Diary—Mere Mention of Old Spain—Departure from Cadiz—A Deserved Rebuke—The Beautiful Madeiras—Tabooed—In the Delightful Bermudas—An English Welcome—Good-by to “Our Friends the Bermudians”—Packing Trunks for Home—Our First Accident—The Long Cruise Drawing to a Close—At Home—Amen |
| CHAPTER LX. | Thankless Devotion—A Newspaper Valedictory—Conclusion |
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I A Tramp over Europe—On the Holsatia—Hamburg—Frankfort-on-the-Main—How it Won its Name—A Lesson in Political Economy—Neatness in Dress—Rhine Legends—“The Knave of Bergen” The Famous Ball—The Strange Knight—Dancing with the Queen—Removal of the Masks—The Disclosure—Wrath of the Emperor—The Ending |
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II At Heidelberg—Great Stir at a Hotel—The Portier—Arrival of the Empress—The Schloss Hotel—Location of Heidelberg—The River Neckar—New Feature in a Hotel—Heidelberg Castle—View from the Hotel—A Tramp in the Woods—Meeting a Raven—Can Ravens Talk?—Laughed at and Vanquished—Language of Animals—Jim Baker—Blue-Jays |
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III Baker’s Blue-Jay Yarn—Jay Language—The Cabin—“Hello, I reckon I’ve struck something”—A Knot Hole—Attempt to fill it—A Ton of Acorns—Friends Called In—A Great Mystery—More Jays called A Blue Flush—A Discovery—A Rich Joke—One that Couldn’t See It |
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IV Student Life—The Five Corps—The Beet King—A Free Life—Attending Lectures—An Immense Audience—Industrious Students—Politeness of the Students—Intercourse with the Professors Scenes at the Castle Garden—Abundance of Dogs—Symbol of Blighted Love—How the Ladies Advertise |
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V The Students’ Dueling Ground—The Dueling Room—The Sword Grinder—Frequency of the Duels—The Duelists—Protection against Injury—The Surgeon—Arrangements for the Duels—The First Duel—The First Wound—A Drawn Battle—The Second Duel—Cutting and Slashing—Interference of the Surgeon |
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VI The Third Duel—A Sickening Spectacle—Dinner between Fights—The Last Duel—Fighting in Earnest—Faces and Heads Mutilated—Great Nerve of the Duelists—Fatal Results not Infrequent—The World’s View of these Fights |
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VII Corps—laws and Usages—Volunteering to Fight—Coolness of the Wounded—Wounds Honorable—Newly bandaged Students around Heidelberg—Scarred Faces Abundant—A Badge of Honor—Prince Bismark as a Duelist—Statistics—Constant Sword Practice—Color of the Corps—Corps Etiquette |
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IX At the Theatre—German Ideal—At the Opera—The Orchestra—Howlings and Wailings—A Curious Play—One Season of Rest—The Wedding Chorus—Germans fond of the Opera—Funerals Needed —A Private Party—What I Overheard—A Gentle Girl—A Contribution—box—Unpleasantly Conspicuous |
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X Four Hours with Wagner—A Wonderful Singer, Once—” Only a Shriek”—An Ancient Vocalist—“He Only Cry”—Emotional Germans—A Wise Custom—Late Comers Rebuked—Heard to the Last—No Interruptions Allowed—A Royal Audience—An Eccentric King—Real Rain and More of It—Immense Success—“Encore! Encore!”—Magnanimity of the King |
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XI Lessons in Art—My Great Picture of Heidelberg Castle—Its Effect in the Exhibition—Mistaken for a Turner—A Studio—Waiting for Orders—A Tramp Decided On—The Start for Heilbronn—Our Walking Dress—“Pleasant march to you”—We Take the Rail—German People on Board—Not Understood—Speak only German and English—Wimpfen—A Funny Tower—Dinner in the Garden—Vigorous Tramping—Ride in a Peasant’s Cart—A Famous Room |
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XII The Rathhaus—An Old Robber Knight, Gotz Von Berlichingen—His Famous Deeds—The Square Tower—A Curious old Church—A Gay Turn—out—A Legend—The Wives’ Treasures—A Model Waiter—A Miracle Performed—An Old Town—The Worn Stones |
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XIII Early to Bed—Lonesome—Nervous Excitement—The Room We Occupied—Disturbed by a Mouse—Grow Desperate—The Old Remedy—A Shoe Thrown—Result—Hopelessly Awake—An Attempt to Dress—A Cruise in the Dark—Crawling on the Floor—A General Smash-up—Forty-seven Miles’ Travel |
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XIV A Famous Turn—out—Raftsmen on the Neckar—The Log Rafts—The Neckar—A Sudden Idea—To Heidelberg on a Raft—Chartering a Raft—Gloomy Feelings and Conversation—Delicious Journeying—View of the Banks—Compared with Railroading |
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CHAPTER XV Down the River—German Women’s Duties—Bathing as We Went—A Handsome Picture: Girls in the Willows—We Sight a Tug—Steamers on the Neckar—Dinner on Board—Legend “Cave of the Spectre “—Lady Gertrude the Heiress—The Crusader—The Lady in the Cave—A Tragedy |
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XVI An Ancient Legend of the Rhine—“The Lorelei”—Count Hermann—Falling in Love—A Sight of the Enchantress—Sad Effect on Count Hermann—An Evening visit—A Sad Mistake—Count Hermann Drowned—The Song and Music—Different Trans lations—Curiosities in Titles |
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XVII Another Legend—The Unconquered Monster—The Unknown Knight —His Queer Shaped Knapsack—The Knight Pitied and Advised—He Attacks the Monster—Victory for the Fire Extinguisher—The Knight rewarded—His Strange Request——Spectacles Made Popular—Danger to the Raft—Blasting Rocks—An Inglorious Death in View—Escaped—A Storm Overtakes us—GreatDanger—Man Overboard—Breakers Ahead—Springing a Leak—Ashore Safe—A General Embracing—A Tramp in the Dark—The Naturalist Tavern—A Night’s Troubles—“It is the Cat" |
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XVIII Breakfast in a Garden—The Old Raven—Castle of Hirschhorn—Attempt to Hire a Boat—High Dutch—What You Can Find out by Enquiring—What I Found out about the Students—A good German Custom—Harris Practices It—AnEmbarrassing Position—A Nice Party—At a Ball—Stopped at the Door—Assistance at Hand and Rendered—Worthy to be an Empress |
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XIX Arrive at Neckarsteinach—Castle of Dilsberg—A Walled Town—On a Hill—Exclusiveness of the People—A Queer Old Place—An Ancient Well—An Outlet Proved—Legend of Dilsberg Castle—The Haunted Chamber—The Betrothed’s request—The Knight’s Slumbers and Awakening—Horror of the Lover—The Wicked Jest—The Lover a Maniac—Under the Linden—Turning Pilot—Accident to the Raft—Fearful Disaster |
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XX Good News—“Slow Freight”—Keramics—My Collection of Bric-a-brac—My Tear Jug—Henri II. Plate—Specimen of Blue China—Indifference to the Laugh of the World—I Discover an Antique En-route to Baden—Baden—Meeting an Old Acquaintance—A young American—Embryo Horse Doctor—An American, Sure—A Minister Captured |
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XXI Baden—Baden—Energetic Girls—A Comprehensive Yawn—A Beggar’s Trick—Cool Impudence—The Bath Woman—Insolence of Shop Keepers—Taking a Bath—Early and Late Hours—Popular Belief Regarding Indians—An Old Cemetery—A Pious Hag—Curious Table Companions |
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XXII The Black Forest—A Grandee and his Family—The Wealthy Nabob—A New Standard of Wealth—Skeleton for a New Novel—Trying Situation—The Common Council—Choosing a New Member Studying Natural History—The Ant a Fraud—Eccentricities of the Ant—His Deceit and Ignorance—A German Dish—Boiled Oranges |
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XXIII Off for a Day’s Tramp—Tramping and Talking—Story Telling—Dentistry in Camp—Nicodemus Dodge—Seeking a Situation—A Butt for Jokes—Jimmy Finn’s Skeleton—Descending a Farm—Unexpected Notoriety |
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XXIV Sunday on the Continent—A Day of Rest—An Incident at Church—An Object of Sympathy—Royalty at Church—Public Grounds Concert—Power and Grades of Music—Hiring a Courier |
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XXV Lucerne—Beauty of its Lake—The Wild Chamois—A Great Error Exposed—Methods of Hunting the Chamois—Beauties of Lucerne—The Alpenstock—Marking Alpenstocks—Guessing at Nationalities—An American Party—An Unexpected Acquaintance—Getting Mixed Up—Following Blind Trails—A Happy Half—hour—Defeat and Revenge |
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XXVI Commerce of Lucerne—Benefits of Martyrdom—A Bit of History—The Home of Cuckoo Clocks—A Satisfactory Revenge—The Alan Who Put Up at Gadsby’s—A Forgotten Story—Wanted to be Postmaster—A Tennessean at Washington—He Concluded to Stay A While—Application of the Story |
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XXVII The Glacier Garden—Excursion on the Lake—Life on the Mountains—A Specimen Tourist—“Where’re you From?”—An Advertising Dodge—A Righteous Verdict—The Guide-book Student—I Believe that’s All |
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XXVIII The Rigi-Kulm—Its Ascent—Stripping for Business—A Mountain Lad—An English Tourist—Railroad up the Mountain—Villages and Mountain—The Jodlers—About Ice Water—The Felsenthor—Too Late—Lost in the Fog—The Rigi-Kulm Hotel—The Alpine Horn—Sunrise at Night |
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XXIX Everything Convenient—Looking for a Western Sunrise—Mutual Recrimination—View from the Summit—Down the Mountain—Railroading—Confidence Wanted and Acquired |
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XXX A Trip by Proxy—A Visit to the Furka Regions—Deadman’s Lake—Source of the Rhone—Glacier Tables—Storm in the Mountains—At Grindelwald—Dawn on the Mountains—An Explanation Required—Dead Language—Criticism of Harris’s Report |
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XXXI Preparations for a Tramp—From Lucerne to Interlaken—The Brunig Pass—Modern and Ancient Chalets—Death of Pontius Pilate—Hermit Home of St Nicholas—Landslides—Children Selling Refreshments—How they Harness a Horse—A Great Man—Honors to a Hero—A Thirsty Bride—For Better or Worse—German Fashions—Anticipations—Solid Comfort—An Unsatisfactory \ Awakening—What we had Lost—Our Surroundings |
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XXXII The Jungfrau Hotel—A Whiskered Waitress—An Arkansas Bride—Perfection in Discord—A Famous Victory—A Look from a Window—About the Jungfrau |
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XXXIII The Giesbach Falls—The Spirit of the Alps—Why People Visit Them—Whey and Grapes as Medicines—The Kursaal—A Formidable Undertaking—From Interlaken to Zermatt on Foot—We Concluded to take a Buggy—A Pair of Jolly Drivers—We meet with Companions—A Cheerful Ride—Kandersteg Valley—An Alpine Parlor—Exercise and Amusement—A Race with a Log |
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XXXIV An Old Guide—Possible Accidents—Dangerous Habitation—Mountain Flowers—Embryo Lions—Mountain Pigs—The End of The World—Ghastly Desolation—Proposed Adventure—Reading-up Adventures—Ascent of Monte Rosa—Precipices and Crevasses—Among the Snows—Exciting Experiences—lee Ridges—The Summit—Adventures Postponed |
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XXXV A New Interest—Magnificent Views—A Mule’s Prefereoces—Turning Mountain Corners—Terror of a Horse—Lady Tourists—Death of a young Countess—A Search for a Hat—What We Did Find—Harris’s Opinion of Chamois—A Disappointed Man—A Giantess—Model for an Empress—Baths at Leuk—Sport in the Water—The Gemmi Precipices—A Palace for an Emperor—The Famous Ladders—Considerably Mixed Up—Sad Plight of a Minister |
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XXXVI Sunday Church Bells—A Cause of Profanity—A Magnificent Glacier—Fault Finding by Harris—Almost an Accident—Selfishness of Harris—Approaching Zermatt—The Matterhorn—Zermatt—Home of Mountain Climbers—Fitted out for Climbing—A Fearful Adventure —Never Satisfied |
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XXXVII A Calm Decision—“I Will Ascend the Riffelberg”—Preparations for the Trip—All Zermatt on the Alert—Schedule of Persons and Things—An Unprecedented Display—A General Turn—out—Ready for a Start—The Post of Danger—The Advance Directed—Grand Display of Umbrellas—The First Camp—Almost a Panic—Supposed to be Lost—The First Accident—A Chaplain Disabled—An Experimenting Mule—Good Effects of a Blunder—Badly Lost—A Reconnoiter—Mystery and Doubt—Stern Measures Taken—A Black Ram—Saved by a Miracle—The Guide’s Guide |
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XXXVIII Our Expedition Continued—Experiments with the Barometer—Boiling Thermometer—Barometer Soup—An Interesting Scientific Discovery—Crippling a Latinist—A Chaplain Injured—Short of Barkeepers—Digging a Mountain Cellar—A Young American Specimen—Somebody’s Grandson—Arrival at Riffelberg Botel—Ascent of Gorner Grat—Faith in Thermometers—The Matterhorn |
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XXXIX Guide Books—Plans for the Return of the Expedition—A Glacier Train—Parachute Descent from Gorner Grat—Proposed Honors to Harris Declined—All had an Excuse—A Magnificent Idea Abandoned—Descent to the Glacier—A Supposed Leak—A Slow Train—The Glacier Abandoned—Journey to Zermatt—A Scientific Question |
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XL Glaciers—Glacier Perils—Moraines—Terminal Moraines—Lateral Moraines—Immense Size of Glacier—Traveling Glacier——General Movements of Glaciers—Ascent of Mont Blacc—Loss of Guides—Finding of Remains—Meeting of Old Friends—The Dead and Living—Proposed Museum—The Relics at Chamonix |
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XLI The Matterhorn Catastrophe of 1563—Mr Whymper’s Narrative—Ascent of the Matterhorn—The Summit—The Matterhorn Conquered—The Descent Commenced—A Fearful Disaster—Death of Lord Douglas and Two Others—The Graves of the Two |
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XLII Switzerland—Graveyard at Zermatt—Balloting for Marriage—Farmers as Heroes—Falling off a Farm—From St Nicholas to Visp—Dangerous Traveling—Children’s Play—The Parson’s Children—A Landlord’s Daughter—A Rare Combination—Ch iIIon—Lost Sympathy—Mont Blanc and its Neighbors—Beauty of Soap Bubbles—A Wild Drive—The King of Drivers—Benefit of getting Drunk |
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XLIII Chamonix—Contrasts—Magnificent Spectacle—The Guild of Guides—The Guide—in—Chief—The Returned Tourist—Getting Diploma—Rigid Rules—Unsuccessful Efforts to Procure a Diploma—The Record-Book—The Conqueror of Mont Blanc—Professional Jealousy —Triumph of Truth—Mountain Music—Its Effect—A Hunt for a Nuisance |
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XLIV Looking at Mont Blanc—Telescopic Effect—A Proposed Trip—Determination and Courage—The Cost all counted——Ascent of Mont Blanc by Telescope—Safe and Rapid Return—Diplomas Asked for and Refused—Disaster of 1866—The Brave Brothers—Wonderful Endurance and Pluck—Love Making on Mont Blanc—First Ascent of a Woman—Sensible Attire |
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XLV A Catastrophe which Cost Eleven Lives—Accident of 1870—A Party of Eleven—A Fearful Storm—Note-books of the Victims—Within Five Minutes of Safety—Facing Death Resignedly |
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XLVI The Hotel des Pyramids—The Glacier des Bossons—One of the Shows—Premeditated Crime—Saved Again—Tourists Warned—Advice to Tourists—The Two Empresses—The Glacier Toll Collector—Pure Ice Water—Death Rate of the World—Of Various Cities—A Pleasure Excursionist—A Diligence Ride—A Satisfied Englishman |
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XLVII Geneva—Shops of Geneva—Elasticity of Prices—Persistency of Shop-Women—The High Pressure System—How a Dandy was brought to Grief—American Manners—Gallantry—Col Baker of London—Arkansaw Justice—Safety of Women in America—Town of Chambery—A Lively Place—At Turin—A Railroad Companion—An Insulted Woman—City of Turin—Italian Honesty—A Small Mistake —Robbing a Beggar Woman |
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XLVIII In Milan—The Arcade—Incidents we Met With—The Pedlar—Children—The Honest Conductor—Heavy Stocks of Clothing—The Quarrelsome Italians—Great Smoke and Little Fire—The Cathedral—Style in Church—The Old Masters—Tintoretto’s great Picture—Emotional Tourists—Basson’s Famed Picture—The Hair Trunk |
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XLIX In Venice—St Mark’s Cathedral—Discovery of an Antique—The Riches of St Mark’s—A Church Robber—Trusting Secrets to a Friend —The Robber Hanged—A Private Dinner—European Food |
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L Why Some things Are—Art in Rome and Florence—The Fig Leaf Mania—Titian’s Venus—Difference between Seeing and Describing A Real work of Art—Titian’s Moses—Home |
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| A—The Portier analyzed |
| B—Hiedelberg Castle Described |
| C—The College Prison and Inmates |
| D—The Awful German Language |
| E—Legends of the Castle |
| F—The Journals of Germany |
| CHAPTER I. | Squire Hawkins and His Tennessee Land—He Decides to Remove to Missouri |
| CHAPTER II. | He Meets With and Adopts the Boy Clay |
| CHAPTER III | Uncle Daniel’s Apparition and PrayeR |
| CHAPTER IV | The Steamboat Explosion |
| CHAPTER V | Adoption of the Little Girl Laura—Arrival at Missouri—Reception by Colonel Beriah Sellers |
| CHAPTER VI | Trouble and Darkness in the Hawkins Family—Proposed Sale of the Tennessee Land |
| CHAPTER VII | Colonel Sellers at Home—His Wonderful Clock and Cure for Rheumatism |
| CHAPTER VIII | Colonel Sellers Makes Known His Magnificent Speculation Schemes and Astonishes Washington Hawkins |
| CHAPTER IX | Death of Judge Hawkins |
| CHAPTER X | Laura Hawkins Discovers a Mystery in Her Parentage and Grows Morbid Under the Village Gossip |
| CHAPTER XI | A Dinner with Col Sellers—Wonderful Effects of Raw Turnips |
| CHAPTER XII | Philip Sterling and Henry Brierly—Arrangements to Go West as Engineers |
| CHAPTER XIII | Rail—Road Contractors and Party Traveling—Philip and Harry form the Acquaintance of Col Sellers |
| CHAPTER XIV | Ruth Bolton and Her Parents |
| CHAPTER XV | Visitors of the Boltons—Mr Bigler “Sees the Legislature”—Ruth Bolton Commences Medical Studies |
| CHAPTER XVI | The Engineers Detained at St Louis—Off for Camp—Reception by Jeff |
| CHAPTER XVII | The Engineer Corps Arrive at Stone’s Landing |
| CHAPTER XVIII | Laura and Her Marriage to Colonel Selby—Deserted and Returns to Hawkeye |
| CHAPTER XIX | Harry Brierly Infatuated With Laura and Proposes She Visit Washington |
| CHAPTER XX | Senator Abner Dilwortliy Visits Hawkeye—Addresses the People and Makes the Acquaintance of Laura 186 |
| CHAPTER XXI | Ruth Bolton at Fallkill Seminary—The Montagues—Ruth Becomes Quite Gay—Alice Montague |
| CHAPTER XXII | Philip and Harry Visit Fallkill—Harry Does the Agreeable to Ruth |
| CHAPTER XXIII | Harry at Washington Lobbying For An Appropriation For Stone’s Landing —Philip in New York Studying Engineering |
| CHAPTER XXIV | Washington and Its Sights—The Appropriation Bill Reported From the Committee and Passed |
| CHAPTER XXV | Energetic Movements at Stone’s Landing—Everything Booming—A Grand Smash Up |
| CHAPTER XXVI | The Boltons—Ruth at Home—Visitors and Speculations |
| CHAPTER XXVII | Col Sellers Comforts His Wife With His Views on the Prospects |
| CHAPTER XXVIII | Visit to Headquarters in Wall Street—How Appropriations Are Obtained and Their Cost |
| CHAPTER XXIX | Philip’s Experience With the Rail—Road Conductor—Surveys His Mining Property |
| CHAPTER XXX | Laura and Col Sellers Go To Washington On Invitation of Senator Dilworthy |
| CHAPTER XXXI | Philip and Harry at the Boltons’—Philip Seriously Injured—Ruth’s First Case of Surgery |
| CHAPTER XXXII | Laura Becomes a Famous Belle at Washington |
| CHAPTER XXXIII | Society in Washington—The Antiques, the Parvenus, and the Middle Aristocracy |
| CHAPTER XXXIV | Grand Scheme For Disposing of the Tennessee Land—Laura and Washington Hawkins Enjoying the Reputation of Being Millionaires |
| CHAPTER XXXV | About Senators—Their Privileges and Habits |
| CHAPTER XXXVI | An Hour in a Book Store |
| CHAPTER XXXVII | Representative Buckstone and Laura’s Strategic Coquetry |
| CHAPTER XXXVIII | Reception Day in Washington—Laura Again Meets Col. Selby and the Effect Upon Her |
| CHAPTER XXXIX | Col. Selby Visits Laura and Effects a Reconciliation |
| CHAPTER XL | Col. Sellers’ Career in Washington—Laura’s Intimacy With Col. Selby is Talked About |
| CHAPTER XLI | Harry Brierly Becomes Entirely Infatuated With Laura—Declares His Love and Gets Laughed At |
| CHAPTER XLII | How The Hon Mr Trollop Was Induced to Vote For Laura’s Bill |
| CHAPTER XLIII | Progress of the Bill in the House |
| CHAPTER XLIV | Philip in Washington—Visits Laura |
| CHAPTER XLV | The Passage of the Bill in the House of Representatives |
| CHAPTER XLVI | Disappearance of Laura, and Murder of Col. Selby in New York |
| CHAPTER XLVII | Laura in the Tombs and Her Visitors |
| CHAPTER XLVIII | Mr Bolton Says Yes Again—Philip Returns to the Mines |
| CHAPTER XLIX | The Coal Vein Found and Lost Again—Philip and the Boltons—Elated and Then Cruelly Disappointed 443 |
| CHAPTER L | Philip Visits Fallkill and Proposes Studying Law With Mr Montague—The Squire Invests in the Mine—Ruth Declares Her Love for Philip |
| CHAPTER LI | Col Sellers Enlightens Washington Hawkins on the Customs of Congress |
| CHAPTER LII | How Senator Dilworthy Advanced Washington’s Interests |
| CHAPTER LIII | Senator Dilworthy Goes West to See About His Re—election—He Becomes a Shining Light |
| CHAPTER LIV | The Trial of Laura for Murder |
| CHAPTER LV | The Trial Continued—Evidence of Harry Brierly |
| CHAPTER LVI | The Trial Continued—Col Sellers on the Stand and Takes Advantage of the Situation |
| CHAPTER LVII | The Momentous Day—Startling News—Dilworthy Denounced as a Briber and Defeated—The Bill Lost in the Senate |
| CHAPTER LVIII | Verdict, Not Guilty !—Laura Free and Receives Propositions to Lecture—Philip back at the Mines |
| CHAPTER LIX | The Investigation of the Dilworthy Bribery Case and Its Results |
| CHAPTER LX | Laura Decides on her Course—Attempts to Lecture and Fails—Found Dead in her Chair |
| CHAPTER LXI | Col Sellers and Washington Hawkins Review the Situation and Leave Washington |
| CHAPTER LXII | Philip Discouraged—One More Effort—Finds Coal at Last |
| CHAPTER LXIII | Philip Leaves Ilium to see Ruth—Ruth Convalescent—Alice |
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| CHAPTER I. | The Party—Across America to Vancouver—On Board the Warrimo—Steamer Chairs—The Captain—Going Home under a Cloud—A Gritty Purser—The Brightest Passenger—Remedy for Bad Habits—The Doctor and the Lumbago—A Moral Pauper—Limited Smoking—Remittance-men. |
| CHAPTER II. | Change of Costume—Fish, Snake, and Boomerang Stories—Tests of Memory—A Brahmin Expert—General Grant’s Memory—A Delicately Improper Tale |
| CHAPTER III. | Honolulu—Reminiscences of the Sandwich Islands—King Liholiho and His Royal Equipment—The Tabu—The Population of the Island—A Kanaka Diver—Cholera at Honolulu—Honolulu; Past and Present—The Leper Colony |
| CHAPTER IV. | Leaving Honolulu—Flying-fish—Approaching the Equator—Why the Ship Went Slow—The Front Yard of the Ship—Crossing the Equator—Horse Billiards or Shovel Board—The Waterbury Watch—Washing Decks—Ship Painters—The Great Meridian—The Loss of a Day—A Babe without a Birthday |
| CHAPTER V. | A lesson in Pronunciation—Reverence for Robert Burns—The Southern Cross—Troublesome Constellations—Victoria for a Name—Islands on the Map—Alofa and Fortuna—Recruiting for the Queensland Plantations—Captain Warren’s NoteBook—Recruiting not thoroughly Popular |
| CHAPTER VI. | Missionaries Obstruct Business—The Sugar Planter and the Kanaka—The Planter’s View—Civilizing the Kanaka—The Missionary’s View—The Result—Repentant Kanakas—Wrinkles—The Death Rate in Queensland |
| CHAPTER VII. | The Fiji Islands—Suva—The Ship from Duluth—Going Ashore—Midwinter in Fiji—Seeing the Governor—Why Fiji was Ceded to England—Old time Fijians—Convicts among the Fijians—A Case Where Marriage was a Failure—Immortality with Limitations |
| CHAPTER VIII. | A Wilderness of Islands—Two Men without a Country—A Naturalist from New Zealand—The Fauna of Australasia—Animals, Insects, and Birds—The Ornithorhynchus—Poetry and Plagiarism |
| CHAPTER IX. | Close to Australia—Porpoises at Night—Entrance to Sydney Harbor—The Loss of the Duncan Dunbar—The Harbor—The City of Sydney—Spring-time in Australia—The Climate—Information for Travelers—The Size of Australia—A Dust-Storm and Hot Wind |
| CHAPTER X. | The Discovery of Australia—Transportation of Convicts—Discipline—English Laws, Ancient and Modern—Flogging Prisoners to Death—Arrival of Settlers—New South Wales Corps—Rum Currency—Intemperance Everywhere—$100,000 for One Gallon of Rum—Development of the Country—Immense Resources |
| CHAPTER XI. | Hospitality of English-speaking People—Writers and their Gratitude—Mr. Gane and the Panegyrics—Population of Sydney An English City with American Trimming—“Squatters”—Palaces and Sheep Kingdoms—Wool and Mutton—Australians and Americans—Costermonger Pronunciation—England is “Home”—Table Talk—English and Colonial Audiences |
| CHAPTER XII. | Mr. X., a Missionary—Why Christianity Makes Slow Progress in India—A Large Dream—Hindoo Miracles and Legends—Sampson and Hanuman—The Sandstone Ridge—Where are the Gates? |
| CHAPTER XIII. | Public Works in Australasia—Botanical Garden of Sydney—Four Special Socialties—The Government House—A Governor and His Functions—The Admiralty House—The Tour of the Harbor—Shark Fishing—Cecil Rhodes’ Shark and his First Fortune—Free Board for Sharks. |
| CHAPTER XIV. | Bad Health—To Melbourne by Rail—Maps Defective—The Colony of Victoria—A Round-trip Ticket from Sydney—Change Cars, from Wide to Narrow Gauge, a Peculiarity at Albury—Customs-fences—“My Word”—The Blue Mountains—Rabbit Piles—Government R. R. Restaurants—Duchesses for Waiters—“Sheep-dip”—Railroad Coffee—Things Seen and Not Seen |
| CHAPTER XV. | Wagga-Wagga—The Tichborne Claimant—A Stock Mystery—The Plan of the Romance—The Realization—The Henry Bascom Mystery—Bascom Hall—The Author’s Death and Funeral |
| CHAPTER XVI. | Melbourne and its Attractions—The Melbourne Cup Races—Cup Day—Great Crowds—Clothes Regardless of Cost—The Australian Larrikin—Is He Dead?—Australian Hospitality—Melbourne Wool-brokers—The Museums—The Palaces—The Origin of Melbourne |
| CHAPTER XVII. | The British Empire—Its Exports and Imports—The Trade of Australia—To Adelaide—Broken Hill Silver Mine—A Roundabout road—The Scrub and its Possibilities for the Novelist—The Aboriginal Tracker—A Test Case—How Does One Cow-Track Differ from Another? |
| CHAPTER XVIII. | The Gum Trees—Unsociable Trees—Gorse and Broom—A universal Defect—An Adventurer—Wanted L200, got L20,000,000—A Vast Land Scheme—The Smash-up—The Corpse Got Up and Danced—A Unique Business by One Man—Buying the Kangaroo Skin—The Approach to Adelaide—Everything Comes to Him who Waits—A Healthy Religious sphere—What is the Matter with the Specter? |
| CHAPTER XIX. | The Botanical Gardens—Contributions from all Countries—The Zoological Gardens of Adelaide—The Laughing Jackass—The Dingo—A Misnamed Province—Telegraphing from Melbourne to San Francisco—A Mania for Holidays—The Temperature—The Death Rate—Celebration of the Reading of the Proclamation of 1836—Some old Settlers at the Commemoration—Their Staying Powers—The Intelligence of the Aboriginal—The Antiquity of the Boomerang |
| CHAPTER XX. | A Caller—A Talk about Old Times—The Fox Hunt—An Accurate Judgment of an Idiot—How We Passed the Custom Officers in Italy |
| CHAPTER XXI. | The “Weet-Weet”—Keeping down the Population—Victoria—Killing the Aboriginals—Pioneer Days in Queensland—Material for a Drama—The Bush—Pudding with Arsenic—Revenge—A Right Spirit but a Wrong Method—Death of Donga Billy |
| CHAPTER XXII. | Continued Description of Aboriginals—Manly Qualities—Dodging Balls—Feats of Spring—Jumping—Where the Kangaroo Learned its Art—Well Digging—Endurance—Surgery—Artistic Abilities—Fennimore Cooper’s Last Chance—Australian Slang |
| CHAPTER XXIII. | To Horsham (Colony of Victoria)—Description of Horsham—At the Hotel—Pepper Tree-The Agricultural College, Forty Pupils—High Temperature—Width of Road in Chains, Perches, etc.—The Bird with a Forgettable Name—The Magpie and the Lady—Fruit Trees—Soils—Sheep Shearing—To Stawell—Gold Mining Country—$75,000 per Month Income and able to Keep House—Fine Grapes and Wine—The Dryest Community on Earth—The Three Sisters—Gum Trees and Water |
| CHAPTER XXIV. | Road to Ballarat—The City—Great Gold Strike, 1851—Rush for Australia—“Great Nuggets”—Taxation—Revolt and Victory—Peter Lalor and the Eureka Stockade—“Pencil Mark”—Fine Statuary at Ballarat—Population—Ballarat English |
| CHAPTER XXV. | Bound for Bendigo—The Priest at Castlemaine—Time Saved by Walking—Description of Bendigo—A Valuable Nugget—Perseverence and Success—Mr. Blank and His Influence—Conveyance of an Idea—I Had to Like the Irishman—Corrigan Castle, and the Mark Twain Club—My Bascom Mystery Solved |
| CHAPTER XXVI. | Where New Zealand Is—But Few Know—Things People Think They Know—The Yale Professor and His Visitor from N. Z. |
| CHAPTER XXVII. | The South Pole Swell—Tasmania—Extermination of the Natives—The Picture Proclamation—The Conciliator—The Formidable Sixteen |
| CHAPTER XXVIII. | When the Moment Comes the Man Appears—Why Ed. Jackson called on Commodore Vanderbilt—Their Interview—Welcome to the Child of His Friend—A Big Time but under Inspection—Sent on Important Business—A Visit to the Boys on the Boat |
| CHAPTER XXIX. | Tasmania, Early Days—Description of the Town of Hobart—An Englishman’s Love of Home Surroundings—Neatest City on Earth—The Museum—A Parrot with an Acquired Taste—Glass Arrow Beads—Refuge for the Indigent too healthy |
| CHAPTER XXX. | Arrival at Bluff, N. Z.—Where the Rabbit Plague Began—The Natural Enemy of the Rabbit—Dunedin—A Lovely Town—Visit to Dr. Hockin—His Museum—A Liquified Caterpillar—The Unperfected Tape Worm—The Public Museum and Picture Gallery |
| CHAPTER XXXI. | The Express Train—“A Hell of a Hotel at Maryborough”—Clocks and Bells—Railroad Service. |
| CHAPTER XXXII. | Description of the Town of Christ Church—A Fine Museum—Jade-stone Trinkets—The Great Moa—The First Maori in New Zealand—Women Voters—“Person” in New Zealand Law Includes Woman—Taming an Ornithorhynchus—A Voyage in the ‘Flora’ from Lyttelton—Cattle Stalls for Everybody—A Wonderful Time. |
| CHAPTER XXXIII. | The Town of Nelson—“The Mongatapu Murders,” the Great Event of the Town—Burgess’ Confession—Summit of Mount Eden—Rotorua and the Hot Lakes and Geysers—Thermal Springs District—Kauri Gum—Tangariwa Mountains |
| CHAPTER XXXIV. | The Bay of Gisborne—Taking in Passengers by the Yard Arm—The Green Ballarat Fly—False Teeth—From Napier to Hastings by the Ballarat Fly Train—Kauri Trees—A Case of Mental Telegraphy |
| CHAPTER XXXV. | Fifty Miles in Four Hours—Comfortable Cars—Town of Wauganui—Plenty of Maoris—On the Increase—Compliments to the Maoris—The Missionary Ways all Wrong—The Tabu among the Maoris—A Mysterious Sign—Curious War-monuments—Wellington |
| CHAPTER XXXVI. | The Poems of Mrs. Moore—The Sad Fate of William Upson—A Fellow Traveler Imitating the Prince of Wales—A Would-be Dude—Arrival at Sydney—Curious Town Names with Poem |
| CHAPTER XXXVII. | From Sydney for Ceylon—A Lascar Crew—A Fine Ship—Three Cats and a Basket of Kittens—Dinner Conversations—Veuve Cliquot Wine—At Anchor in King George’s Sound Albany Harbor—More Cats—A Vulture on Board—Nearing the Equator again—Dressing for Dinner—Ceylon, Hotel Bristol—Servant Brampy—A Feminine Man—Japanese Jinriksha or Cart—Scenes in Ceylon—A Missionary School—Insincerity of Clothes |
| CHAPTER XXXVIII. | Steamer Rosetta to Bombay—Limes 14 cents a Barrel—Bombay, a Bewitching City—Descriptions of People and Dress—Woman as a Road Decoration—India, the Land of Dreams and Romance—Fourteen Porters to Carry Baggage—Correcting a Servant—Killing a Slave—Arranging a Bedroom—Three Hours’ Work and a Terrible Racket—The Bird of Birds, the Indian Crow |
| CHAPTER XXXIX. | God Vishnu, 108 Names—Change of Titles or Hunting for an Heir—Bombay as a Kaleidoscope—The Native’s Man Servant—Servants’ Recommendations—How Manuel got his Name and his English—Satan—A Visit from God |
| CHAPTER XL. | The Government House at Malabar Point—Mansion of Kumar Shri Samatsin Hji Bahadur—The Indian Princess—A Difficult Game—Wardrobe and Jewels—Ceremonials—Decorations when Leaving—The Towers of Silence—A Funeral |
| CHAPTER XLI. | A Jain Temple—Mr. Roychand’s Bungalow—A Decorated Six-Gun Prince—Human Fireworks—European Dress, Past and Present—Complexions—Advantages with the Zulu—Festivities at the Bungalow—Nautch Dancers—Entrance of the Prince—Address to the Prince |
| CHAPTER XLII. | A Hindoo Betrothal, midnight, Sleepers on the ground, Home of the Bride of Twelve Years Dressed as a Boy—Illumination—Nautch Girls—Imitating Snakes—Later—Illuminated Porch Filled with Sleepers—The Plague |
| CHAPTER XLIII. | Murder Trial in Bombay—Confidence Swindlers—Some Specialities of India—The Plague, Juggernaut, Suttee, etc.—Everything on Gigantic Scale—India First in Everything—80 States, more Custom Houses than Cats—Rich Ground for Thug Society |
| CHAPTER XLIV. | Official Thug Book—Supplies for Traveling, Bedding, and other Freight—Scene at Railway Station—Making Way for White Man—Waiting Passengers, High and Low Caste, Touch in the cars—Our Car—Beds made up—Dreaming of Thugs—Baroda—Meet Friends—Indian Well—The Old Town—Narrow Streets—A Mad Elephant |
| CHAPTER XLV. | Elephant Riding—Howdahs—The New Palace—The Prince’s Excursion—Gold and Silver Artillery—A Vice-royal Visit—Remarkable Dog—The Bench Show—Augustin Daly’s Back Door—Fakeer |
| CHAPTER XLVI. | The Thugs—Government Efforts to Exterminate them—Choking a Victim—A Fakeer Spared—Thief Strangled |
| CHAPTER XLVII. | Thugs, Continued—Record of Murders—A Joy of Hunting and Killing Men—Gordon Cumming—Killing an Elephant—Family Affection among Thugs—Burial Places |
| CHAPTER XLVIII. | Starting for Allahabad—Lower Berths in Sleepers—Elderly Ladies have Preference of Berths—An American Lady Takes One Anyhow—How Smythe Lost his Berth—How He Got Even—The Suttee |
| CHAPTER XLIX. | Pyjamas—Day Scene in India—Clothed in a Turban and a Pocket Handkerchief—Land Parceled Out—Established Village Servants—Witches in Families—Hereditary Midwifery—Destruction of Girl Babies—Wedding Display—Tiger-Persuader—Hailstorm Discouragers—The Tyranny of the Sweeper—Elephant Driver—Water Carrier—Curious Rivers—Arrival at Allahabad—English Quarter—Lecture Hall Like a Snowstorm—Private Carriages—A Milliner—Early Morning—The Squatting Servant—A Religious Fair |
| CHAPTER L. | On the Road to Benares—Dust and Waiting—The Bejeweled Crowd—A Native Prince and his Guard—Zenana Lady—The Extremes of Fashion—The Hotel at Benares—An Annex a Mile Away—Doors in India—The Peepul Tree—Warning against Cold Baths—A Strange Fruit—Description of Benares—The Beginning of Creation—Pilgrims to Benares—A Priest with a Good Business Stand—Protestant Missionary—The Trinity Brahma, Shiva, and Vishnu—Religion the Business at Benares |
| CHAPTER LI. | Benares a Religious Temple—A Guide for Pilgrims to Save Time in Securing Salvation |
| CHAPTER LII. | A Curious Way to Secure Salvation—The Banks of the Ganges—Architecture Represents Piety—A Trip on the River—Bathers and their Costumes—Drinking the Water—A Scientific Test of the Nasty Purifier—Hindoo Faith in the Ganges—A Cremation—Remembrances of the Suttee—All Life Sacred Except Human Life—The Goddess Bhowanee, and the Sacrificers—Sacred Monkeys—Ugly Idols Everywhere—Two White Minarets—A Great View with a Monkey in it—A Picture on the Water |
| CHAPTER LIII. | Still in Benares—Another Living God—Why Things are Wonderful—Sri 108 Utterly Perfect—How He Came so—Our Visit to Sri—A Friendly Deity Exchanging Autographs and Books—Sri’s Pupil—An Interesting Man—Reverence and Irreverence—Dancing in a Sepulchre |
| CHAPTER LIV. | Rail to Calcutta—Population—The “City of Palaces”—A Fluted Candle-stick—Ochterlony—Newspaper Correspondence—Average Knowledge of Countries—A Wrong Idea of Chicago—Calcutta and the Black Hole—Description of the Horrors—Those Who Lived—The Botanical Gardens—The Afternoon Turnout—Grand Review—Military Tournament—Excursion on the Hoogly—The Museum—What Winter Means in Calcutta |
| CHAPTER LV. | On the Road Again—Flannels in Order—Across Country—From Greenland’s Icy Mountain—Swapping Civilization—No Field women in India—How it is in Other Countries—Canvas-covered Cars—The Tiger Country—My First Hunt—Some Wild Elephants Get Away—The Plains of India—The Ghurkas—Women for Pack-Horses—A Substitute for a Cab—Darjeeling—The Hotel—The Highest Thing in the Himalayas—The Club—Kinchinjunga and Mt. Everest—Thibetans—The Prayer Wheel—People Going to the Bazar |
| CHAPTER LVI. | On the Road Again—The Hand-Car—A Thirty-five-mile Slide—The Banyan Tree—A Dramatic Performance—The Railroad Loop—The Half-way House—The Brain Fever Bird—The Coppersmith Bird—Nightingales and Cue Owls |
| CHAPTER LVII. | India the Most Extraordinary Country on Earth—Nothing Forgotten—The Land of Wonders—Annual Statistics Everywhere about Violence—Tiger vs. Man—A Handsome Fight—Annual Man Killing and Tiger Killing—Other Animals—Snakes—Insurance and Snake Tables—The Cobra Bite—Muzaffurpore—Dinapore—A Train that Stopped for Gossip—Six Hours for Thirty-five Miles—A Rupee to the Engineer—Ninety Miles an Hour—Again to Benares, the Piety Hive—To Lucknow |
| CHAPTER LVIII. | The Great Mutiny—The Massacre in Cawnpore—Terrible Scenes in Lucknow—The Residency—The Siege |
| CHAPTER LIX. | A Visit to the Residency—Cawnpore—The Adjutant Bird and the Hindoo Corpse—The Taj Mahal—The True Conception—The Ice Storm—True Gems—Syrian Fountains—An Exaggerated Niagara |
| CHAPTER LX. | To Lahore—The Governor’s Elephant—Taking a Ride—No Danger from Collision—Rawal Pindi—Back to Delhi—An Orientalized Englishman—Monkeys and the Paint-pot—Monkey Crying over my Note-book—Arrival at Jeypore—In Rajputana—Watching Servants—The Jeypore Hotel—Our Old and New Satan—Satan as a Liar—The Museum—A Street Show—Blocks of Houses—A Religious Procession |
| CHAPTER LXI. | Methods in American Deaf and Dumb Asylums—Methods in the Public Schools—A Letter from a Youth in Punjab—Highly Educated Service—A Damage to the Country—A Little Book from Calcutta—Writing Poor English—Embarrassed by a Beggar Girl—A Specimen Letter—An Application for Employment—A Calcutta School Examination—Two Samples of Literature |
| CHAPTER LXII. | Sail from Calcutta to Madras—Thence to Ceylon—Thence for Mauritius—The Indian Ocean—Our Captain’s Peculiarity—The Scot Has one too—The Flying-fish that Went Hunting in the Field—Fined for Smuggling—Lots of Pets on Board—The Color of the Sea—The Most Important Member of Nature’s Family—The Captain’s Story of Cold Weather—Omissions in the Ship’s Library—Washing Decks—Pyjamas on Deck—The Cat’s Toilet—No Interest in the Bulletin—Perfect Rest—The Milky Way and the Magellan Clouds—Mauritius—Port Louis—A Hot Country—Under French Control—A Variety of People and Complexions—Train to Curepipe—A Wonderful Office-holder—The Wooden Peg Ornament—The Prominent Historical Event of Mauritius—“Paul and Virginia”—One of Virginia’s Wedding Gifts—Heaven Copied after Mauritius—Early History of Mauritius—Quarantines—Population of all Kinds—What the World Consists of—Where Russia and Germany are—A Picture of Milan Cathedral—Newspapers—The Language—Best Sugar in the World—Literature of Mauritius |
| CHAPTER LXIII. | Port Louis—Matches no Good—Good Roads—Death Notices—Why European Nations Rob Each Other—What Immigrants to Mauritius Do—Population—Labor Wages—The Camaron—The Palmiste and other Eatables—Monkeys—The Cyclone of 1892—Mauritius a Sunday Landscape |
| CHAPTER LXIV. | The Steamer “Arundel Castle”—Poor Beds in Ships—The Beds in Noah’s Ark—Getting a Rest in Europe—Ship in Sight—Mozambique Channel—The Engineer and the Band—Thackeray’s “Madagascar”—Africanders Going Home—Singing on the After Deck—An Out-of-Place Story—Dynamite Explosion in Johannesburg—Entering Delagoa Bay—Ashore—A Hot Winter—Small Town—No Sights—No Carriages—Working Women—Barnum’s Purchase of Shakespeare’s Birthplace, Jumbo, and the Nelson Monument—Arrival at Durban |
| CHAPTER LXV. | Royal Hotel Durban—Bells that Did not Ring—Early Inquiries for Comforts—Change of Temperature after Sunset—Rickhaws—The Hotel Chameleon—Natives not out after the Bell—Preponderance of Blacks in Natal—Hair Fashions in Natal—Zulus for Police—A Drive round the Berea—The Cactus and other Trees—Religion a Vital Matter—Peculiar Views about Babies—Zulu Kings—A Trappist Monastery—Transvaal Politics—Reasons why the Trouble came About |
| CHAPTER LXVI. | Jameson over the Border—His Defeat and Capture—Sent to England for Trial—Arrest of Citizens by the Boers—Commuted Sentences—Final Release of all but Two—Interesting Days for a Stranger—Hard to Understand Either Side—What the Reformers Expected to Accomplish—How They Proposed to Do it—Testimonies a Year Later—A “Woman’s Part”—The Truth of the South African Situation—“Jameson’s Ride”—A Poem |
| CHAPTER LXVII. | Jameson’s Raid—The Reform Committee’s Difficult Task—Possible Plans—Advice that Jameson Ought to Have—The War of 1881 and its Lessons—Statistics of Losses of the Combatants—Jameson’s Battles—Losses on Both Sides—The Military Errors—How the Warfare Should Have Been Carried on to Be Successful |
| CHAPTER LXVIII. | Judicious Mr. Rhodes—What South Africa Consists of—Johannesburg—The Gold Mines—The Heaven of American Engineers—What the Author Knows about Mining—Description of the Boer—What Should be Expected of Him—What Was A Dizzy Jump for Rhodes—Taxes—Rhodesian Method of Reducing Native Population—Journeying in Cape Colony—The Cars—The Country—The Weather—Tamed Blacks—Familiar Figures in King William’s Town—Boer Dress—Boer Country Life—Sleeping Accommodations—The Reformers in Boer Prison—Torturing a Black Prisoner |
| CHAPTER LXIX. | An Absorbing Novelty—The Kimberley Diamond Mines—Discovery of Diamonds—The Wronged Stranger—Where the Gems Are—A Judicious Change of Boundary—Modern Machinery and Appliances—Thrilling Excitement in Finding a Diamond—Testing a Diamond—Fences—Deep Mining by Natives in the Compound—Stealing—Reward for the Biggest Diamond—A Fortune in Wine—The Great Diamond—Office of the De Beer Co.—Sorting the Gems—Cape Town—The Most Imposing Man in British Provinces—Various Reasons for his Supremacy—How He Makes Friends |
| CONCLUSION. | Table Rock—Table Bay—The Castle—Government and Parliament—The Club—Dutch Mansions and their Hospitality—Dr. John Barry and his Doings—On the Ship Norman—Madeira—Arrived in Southampton |
| CHAPTER I. | Civilizing Huck.—Miss Watson.—Tom Sawyer Waits. |
| CHAPTER II. | The Boys Escape Jim.—Torn Sawyer’s Gang.—Deep-laid Plans. |
| CHAPTER III. | A Good Going-over.—Grace Triumphant.—“One of Tom Sawyers’s Lies”. |
| CHAPTER IV. | Huck and the Judge.—Superstition. |
| CHAPTER V. | Huck’s Father.—The Fond Parent.—Reform. |
| CHAPTER VI. | He Went for Judge Thatcher.—Huck Decided to Leave.—Political Economy.—Thrashing Around. |
| CHAPTER VII. | Laying for Him.—Locked in the Cabin.—Sinking the Body.—Resting. |
| CHAPTER VIII. | Sleeping in the Woods.—Raising the Dead.—Exploring the Island.—Finding Jim.—Jim’s Escape.—Signs.—Balum. |
| CHAPTER IX. | The Cave.—The Floating House. |
| CHAPTER X. | The Find.—Old Hank Bunker.—In Disguise. |
| CHAPTER XI. | Huck and the Woman.—The Search.—Prevarication.—Going to Goshen. |
| CHAPTER XII. | Slow Navigation.—Borrowing Things.—Boarding the Wreck.—The Plotters.—Hunting for the Boat. |
| CHAPTER XIII. | Escaping from the Wreck.—The Watchman.—Sinking. |
| CHAPTER XIV. | A General Good Time.—The Harem.—French. |
| CHAPTER XV. | Huck Loses the Raft.—In the Fog.—Huck Finds the Raft.—Trash. |
| CHAPTER XVI. | Expectation.—A White Lie.—Floating Currency.—Running by Cairo.—Swimming Ashore. |
| CHAPTER XVII. | An Evening Call.—The Farm in Arkansaw.—Interior Decorations.—Stephen Dowling Bots.—Poetical Effusions. |
| CHAPTER XVIII. | Col. Grangerford.—Aristocracy.—Feuds.—The Testament.—Recovering the Raft.—The Wood—pile.—Pork and Cabbage. |
| CHAPTER XIX. | Tying Up Day—times.—An Astronomical Theory.—Running a Temperance Revival.—The Duke of Bridgewater.—The Troubles of Royalty. |
| CHAPTER XX. | Huck Explains.—Laying Out a Campaign.—Working the Camp—meeting.—A Pirate at the Camp—meeting.—The Duke as a Printer. |
| CHAPTER XXI. | Sword Exercise.—Hamlet’s Soliloquy.—They Loafed Around Town.—A Lazy Town.—Old Boggs.—Dead. |
| CHAPTER XXII. | Sherburn.—Attending the Circus.—Intoxication in the Ring.—The Thrilling Tragedy. |
| CHAPTER XXIII. | Sold.—Royal Comparisons.—Jim Gets Home-sick. |
| CHAPTER XXIV. | Jim in Royal Robes.—They Take a Passenger.—Getting Information.—Family Grief. |
| CHAPTER XXV. | Is It Them?—Singing the “Doxologer.”—Awful Square—Funeral Orgies.—A Bad Investment . |
| CHAPTER XXVI. | A Pious King.—The King’s Clergy.—She Asked His Pardon.—Hiding in the Room.—Huck Takes the Money. |
| CHAPTER XXVII. | The Funeral.—Satisfying Curiosity.—Suspicious of Huck,—Quick Sales and Small. |
| CHAPTER XXVIII. | The Trip to England.—“The Brute!”—Mary Jane Decides to Leave.—Huck Parting with Mary Jane.—Mumps.—The Opposition Line. |
| CHAPTER XXIX. | Contested Relationship.—The King Explains the Loss.—A Question of Handwriting.—Digging up the Corpse.—Huck Escapes. |
| CHAPTER XXX. | The King Went for Him.—A Royal Row.—Powerful Mellow. |
| CHAPTER XXXI. | Ominous Plans.—News from Jim.—Old Recollections.—A Sheep Story.—Valuable Information. |
| CHAPTER XXXII. | Still and Sunday—like.—Mistaken Identity.—Up a Stump.—In a Dilemma. |
| CHAPTER XXXIII. | A Nigger Stealer.—Southern Hospitality.—A Pretty Long Blessing.—Tar and Feathers. |
| CHAPTER XXXIV. | The Hut by the Ash Hopper.—Outrageous.—Climbing the Lightning Rod.—Troubled with Witches. |
| CHAPTER XXXV. | Escaping Properly.—Dark Schemes.—Discrimination in Stealing.—A Deep Hole. |
| CHAPTER XXXVI. | The Lightning Rod.—His Level Best.—A Bequest to Posterity.—A High Figure. |
| CHAPTER XXXVII. | The Last Shirt.—Mooning Around.—Sailing Orders.—The Witch Pie. |
| CHAPTER XXXVIII. | The Coat of Arms.—A Skilled Superintendent.—Unpleasant Glory.—A Tearful Subject. |
| CHAPTER XXXIX. | Rats.—Lively Bed—fellows.—The Straw Dummy. |
| CHAPTER XL. | Fishing.—The Vigilance Committee.—A Lively Run.—Jim Advises a Doctor. |
| CHAPTER XLI. | The Doctor.—Uncle Silas.—Sister Hotchkiss.—Aunt Sally in Trouble. |
| CHAPTER XLII. | Tom Sawyer Wounded.—The Doctor’s Story.—Tom Confesses.—Aunt Polly Arrives.—Hand Out Them Letters . |
| CHAPTER THE LAST. | Out of Bondage.—Paying the Captive.—Yours Truly, Huck Finn. |
| CHAPTER I. | Y-o-u-u Tom-Aunt Polly Decides Upon her Duty —Tom Practices Music—The Challenge—A Private Entrance |
| CHAPTER II. | Strong Temptations—Strategic Movements —The Innocents Beguiled |
| CHAPTER III. | Tom as a General—Triumph and Reward —Dismal Felicity—Commission and Omission |
| CHAPTER IV. | Mental Acrobatics—Attending Sunday—School —The Superintendent—“Showing off”—Tom Lionized |
| CHAPTER V. | A Useful Minister—In Church—The Climax |
| CHAPTER VI. | Self-Examination—Dentistry—The Midnight Charm —Witches and Devils—Cautious Approaches—Happy Hours |
| CHAPTER VII. | A Treaty Entered Into—Early Lessons—A Mistake Made |
| CHAPTER VIII. | Tom Decides on his Course—Old Scenes Re-enacted |
| CHAPTER IX. | A Solemn Situation—Grave Subjects Introduced —Injun Joe Explains |
| CHAPTER X. | The Solemn Oath—Terror Brings Repentance —Mental Punishment |
| CHAPTER XI. | Muff Potter Comes Himself—Tom’s Conscience at Work |
| CHAPTER XII. | Tom Shows his Generosity—Aunt Polly Weakens |
| CHAPTER XIII. | The Young Pirates—Going to the Rendezvous —The Camp—Fire Talk |
| CHAPTER XIV. | Camp-Life—A Sensation—Tom Steals Away from Camp |
| CHAPTER XV. | Tom Reconnoiters—Learns the Situation—Reports at Camp |
| CHAPTER XVI. | A Day’s Amusements—Tom Reveals a Secret—The Pirates take a Lesson —A Night Surprise—An Indian War |
| CHAPTER XVII. | Memories of the Lost Heroes—The Point in Tom’s Secret |
| CHAPTER XVIII. | Tom’s Feelings Investigated—Wonderful Dream —Becky Thatcher Overshadowed —Tom Becomes Jealous—Black Revenge |
| CHAPTER XIX. | Tom Tells the Truth |
| CHAPTER XX. | Becky in a Dilemma —Tom’s Nobility Asserts Itself |
| CHAPTER XXI. | Youthful Eloquence—Compositions by the Young Ladies—A Lengthy Vision —The Boy’s Vengeance Satisfied |
| CHAPTER XXII. | Tom’s Confidence Betrayed —Expects Signal Punishment |
| CHAPTER XXIII. | Old Muff’s Friends—Muff Potter in Court —Muff Potter Saved |
| CHAPTER XXIV. | Tom as the Village Hero—Days of Splendor and Nights of Horror—Pursuit of Injun Joe |
| CHAPTER XXV. | About Kings and Diamonds—Search for the Treasure —Dead People and Ghosts |
| CHAPTER XXVI. | The Haunted House—Sleepy Ghosts —A Box of Gold—Bitter Luck |
| CHAPTER XXVII. | Doubts to be Settled—The Young Detectives |
| CHAPTER XXVIII. | An Attempt at No. Two—Huck Mounts Guard |
| CHAPTER XXIX. | The Pic-nic—Huck on Injun Joe’s Track —The “Revenge” Job—Aid for the Widow |
| CHAPTER XXX. | The Welchman Reports—Huck Under Fire—The Story Circulated —A New Sensation—Hope Giving Way to Despair |
| CHAPTER XXXI. | An Exploring Expedition—Trouble Commences —Lost in the Cave—Total Darkness—Found but not Saved |
| CHAPTER XXXII. | Tom tells the Story of their Escape —Tom’s Enemy in Safe Quarters |
| CHAPTER XXXIII. | The Fate of Injun Joe—Huck and Tom Compare Notes —An Expedition to the Cave—Protection Against Ghosts —“An Awful Snug Place”—A Reception at the Widow Douglas’s |
| CHAPTER XXXIV. | Springing a Secret—Mr. Jones’ Surprise a Failure |
| CHAPTER XXXV. | A New Order of Things—Poor Huck—New Adventures Planned |
| CHAPTER I. | My Brother appointed Secretary of Nevada—I Envy His Prospective Adventures—Am Appointed Private Secretary Under Him—My Contentment Complete—Packed in One Hour—Dreams and Visions—On the Missouri River—A Bully Boat |
| CHAPTER II. | Arrive at St. Joseph—Only Twenty-five Pounds Baggage Allowed—Farewell to Kid Gloves and Dress Coats—Armed to the Teeth—The “Allen”—A Cheerful Weapon—Persuaded to Buy a Mule—Schedule of Luxuries—We Leave the “States”—“Our Coach”—Mails for the Indians—Between a Wink and an Earthquake—A Modern Sphynx and How She Entertained Us—A Sociable Heifer |
| CHAPTER III. | “The Thoroughbrace is Broke”—Mails Delivered Properly—Sleeping Under Difficulties—A Jackass Rabbit Meditating, and on Business—A Modern Gulliver—Sage-brush—Overcoats as an Article of Diet—Sad Fate of a Camel—Warning to Experimenters |
| CHAPTER IV. | Making Our Bed—Assaults by the Unabridged—At a Station—Our Driver a Great and Shining Dignitary—Strange Place for a Frontyard—Accommodations—Double Portraits—An Heirloom—Our Worthy Landlord—“Fixings and Things”—An Exile—Slumgullion—A Well Furnished Table—The Landlord Astonished—Table Etiquette—Wild Mexican Mules—Stage-coaching and Railroading |
| CHAPTER V. | New Acquaintances—The Cayote—A Dog’s Experiences—A Disgusted Dog—The Relatives of the Cayote—Meals Taken Away from Home |
| CHAPTER VI. | The Division Superintendent—The Conductor—The Driver—One Hundred and Fifty Miles’ Drive Without Sleep—Teaching a Subordinate—Our Old Friend Jack and a Pilgrim—Ben Holliday Compared to Moses |
| CHAPTER VII. | Overland City—Crossing the Platte—Bemis’s Buffalo Hunt—Assault by a Buffalo—Bemis’s Horse Goes Crazy—An Impromptu Circus—A New Departure—Bemis Finds Refuge in a Tree—Escapes Finally by a Wonderful Method |
| CHAPTER VIII. | The Pony Express—Fifty Miles Without Stopping—“Here he Comes”—Alkali Water—Riding an Avalanche—Indian Massacre |
| CHAPTER IX. | Among the Indians—An Unfair Advantage—Laying on our Arms—A Midnight Murder—Wrath of Outlaws—A Dangerous, yet Valuable Citizen |
| CHAPTER X. | History of Slade—A Proposed Fist-fight—Encounter with Jules—Paradise of Outlaws—Slade as Superintendent—As Executioner—A Doomed Whisky Seller—A Prisoner—A Wife’s Bravery—An Ancient Enemy Captured—Enjoying a Luxury—Hob-nobbing with Slade—Too Polite—A Happy Escape |
| CHAPTER XI | . Slade in Montana—“On a Spree”—In Court—Attack on a Judge—Arrest by the Vigilantes—Turn out of the Miners—Execution of Slade—Lamentations of His Wife—Was Slade a Coward? |
| CHAPTER XII. | A Mormon Emigrant Train—The Heart of the Rocky Mountains—Pure Saleratus—A Natural Ice-House—An Entire Inhabitant—In Sight of “Eternal Snow”—The South Pass—The Parting Streams—An Unreliable Letter Carrier—Meeting of Old Friends—A Spoiled Watermelon—Down the Mountain- -A Scene of Desolation—Lost in the Dark—Unnecessary Advice—U.S. Troops and Indians—Sublime Spectacle—Another Delusion Dispelled—Among the Angels |
| CHAPTER XIII. | Mormons and Gentiles—Exhilarating Drink, and its Effect on Bemis—Salt Lake City—A Great Contrast—A Mormon Vagrant—Talk with a Saint—A Visit to the “King”—A Happy Simile |
| CHAPTER XIV. | Mormon Contractors—How Mr. Street Astonished Them—The Case Before Brigham Young, and How he Disposed of it—Polygamy Viewed from a New Position |
| CHAPTER XV. | A Gentile Den—Polygamy Discussed—Favorite Wife and D. 4—Hennery for Retired Wives—Children Need Marking—Cost of a Gift to No. 6—A Penny- whistle Gift and its Effects—Fathering the Foundlings—It Resembled Him—The Family Bedstead |
| CHAPTER XVI. | The Mormon Bible—Proofs of its Divinity—Plagiarism of its Authors—Story of Nephi—Wonderful Battle—Kilkenny Cats Outdone |
| CHAPTER XVII. | Three Sides to all Questions—Everything “A Quarter”—Shriveled Up—Emigrants and White Shirts at a Discount—“Forty-Niners”—Above Par—Real Happiness |
| CHAPTER XVIII. | Alkali Desert—Romance of Crossing Dispelled—Alkali Dust—Effect on the Mules—Universal Thanksgiving |
| CHAPTER XIX. | The Digger Indians Compared with the Bushmen of Africa—Food, Life and Characteristics—Cowardly Attack on a Stage Coach—A Brave Driver—The Noble Red Man |
| CHAPTER XX. | The Great American Desert—Forty Miles on Bones—Lakes Without Outlets—Greely’s Remarkable Ride—Hank Monk, the Renowned Driver—Fatal Effects of “Corking” a Story—Bald-Headed Anecdote |
| CHAPTER XXI. | Alkali Dust—Desolation and Contemplation—Carson City—Our Journey Ended—We are Introduced to Several Citizens—A Strange Rebuke—A Washoe Zephyr at Play—Its Office Hours—Governor’s Palace—Government Offices—Our French Landlady Bridget O’Flannigan—Shadow Secrets—Cause for a Disturbance at Once—The Irish Brigade—Mrs. O’Flannigan’s Boarders—The Surveying Expedition—Escape of the Tarantulas |
| CHAPTER XXII. | The Son of a Nabob—Start for Lake Tahoe—Splendor of the Views—Trip on the Lake—Camping Out—Reinvigorating Climate—Clearing a Tract of Land—Securing a Title—Outhouse and Fences |
| CHAPTER XXIII. | A Happy Life—Lake Tahoe and its Moods—Transparency of the Waters—A Catastrophe—Fire! Fire!—A Magnificent Spectacle—Homeless Again—We take to the Lake—A Storm—Return to Carson |
| CHAPTER XXIV. | Resolve to Buy a Horse—Horsemanship in Carson—A Temptation—Advice Given Me Freely—I Buy the Mexican Plug—My First Ride—A Good Bucker—I Loan the Plug—Experience of Borrowers—Attempts to Sell—Expense of the Experiment—A Stranger Taken In |
| CHAPTER XXV. | The Mormons in Nevada—How to Persuade a Loan from Them—Early History of the Territory—Silver Mines Discovered—The New Territorial Government—A Foreign One and a Poor One—Its Funny Struggles for Existence—No Credit, no Cash—Old Abe Currey Sustains it and its Officers—Instructions and Vouchers—An Indian’s Endorsement—Toll-Gates |
| CHAPTER XXVI. | The Silver Fever—State of the Market—Silver Bricks—Tales Told—Off for the Humboldt Mines |
| CHAPTER XXVII. | Our manner of going—Incidents of the Trip—A Warm but Too Familiar a Bedfellow—Mr. Ballou Objects—Sunshine amid Clouds—Safely Arrived |
| CHAPTER XXVIII. | Arrive at the Mountains—Building Our Cabin—My First Prospecting Tour—My First Gold Mine—Pockets Filled With Treasures—Filtering the News to My Companions—The Bubble Pricked—All Not Gold That Glitters |
| CHAPTER XXIX. | Out Prospecting—A Silver Mine At Last—Making a Fortune With Sledge and Drill—A Hard Road to Travel—We Own in Claims—A Rocky Country |
| CHAPTER XXX. | Disinterested Friends—How “Feet” Were Sold—We Quit Tunnelling—A Trip to Esmeralda—My Companions—An Indian Prophesy—A Flood—Our Quarters During It |
| CHAPTER XXXI. | The Guests at “Honey Lake Smith’s”—“Bully Old Arkansas”—“Our Landlord"- -Determined to Fight—The Landlord’s Wife—The Bully Conquered by Her—Another Start—Crossing the Carson—A Narrow Escape—Following Our Own Track—A New Guide—Lost in the Snow |
| CHAPTER XXXII. | Desperate Situation—Attempts to Make a Fire—Our Horses leave us—We Find Matches—One, Two, Three and the Last—No Fire—Death Seems Inevitable—We Mourn Over Our Evil Lives—Discarded Vices—We Forgive Each Other—An Affectionate Farewell—The Sleep of Oblivion |
| CHAPTER XXXIII. | Return of Consciousness—Ridiculous Developments—A Station House—Bitter Feelings—Fruits of Repentance—Resurrected Vices |
| CHAPTER XXXIV. | About Carson—General Buncombe—Hyde vs. Morgan—How Hyde Lost His Ranch- -The Great Landslide Case—The Trial—General Buncombe in Court—A Wonderful Decision—A Serious Afterthought |
| CHAPTER XXXV. | A New Travelling Companion—All Full and No Accommodations—How Captain Nye found Room—and Caused Our Leaving to be Lamented—The Uses of Tunnelling—A Notable Example—We Go into the “Claim” Business and Fail—At the Bottom |
| CHAPTER XXXVI. | A Quartz Mill—Amalgamation—“Screening Tailings”—First Quartz Mill in Nevada—Fire Assay—A Smart Assayer—I stake for an advance |
| CHAPTER XXXVII. | The Whiteman Cement Mine—Story of its Discovery—A Secret Expedition—A Nocturnal Adventure—A Distressing Position—A Failure and a Week’s Holiday |
| CHAPTER XXXVIII. | Mono Lake—Shampooing Made Easy—Thoughtless Act of Our Dog and the Results—Lye Water—Curiosities of the Lake—Free Hotel—Some Funny Incidents a Little Overdrawn |
| CHAPTER XXXIX. | Visit to the Islands in Lake Mono—Ashes and Desolation—Life Amid Death Our Boat Adrift—A Jump For Life—A Storm On the Lake—A Mass of Soap Suds—Geological Curiosities—A Week On the Sierras—A Narrow Escape From a Funny Explosion—“Stove Heap Gone" |
| CHAPTER XL. | The “Wide West” Mine—It is “Interviewed” by Higbie—A Blind Lead—Worth a Million—We are Rich At Last—Plans for the Future |
| CHAPTER XLI. | A Rheumatic Patient—Day Dreams—An Unfortunate Stumble—I Leave Suddenly—Another Patient—Higbie in the Cabin—Our Balloon Bursted—Worth Nothing—Regrets and Explanations—Our Third Partner |
| CHAPTER XLII. | What to do Next?—Obstacles I Had Met With—“Jack of All Trades”—Mining Again—Target Shooting—I Turn City Editor—I Succeed Finely |
| CHAPTER XLIII. | My Friend Boggs—The School Report—Boggs Pays Me An Old Debt—Virginia City |
| CHAPTER XLIV. | Flush Times—Plenty of Stock—Editorial Puffing—Stocks Given Me—Salting Mines—A Tragedian In a New Role |
| CHAPTER XLV. | Flush Times Continue—Sanitary Commission Fund—Wild Enthusiasm of the People—Would not wait to Contribute—The Sanitary Flour Sack—It is Carried to Gold Hill and Dayton—Final Reception in Virginia—Results of the Sale—A Grand Total |
| CHAPTER XLVI. | The Nabobs of Those Days—John Smith as a Traveler—Sudden Wealth—A Sixty-Thousand-Dollar Horse—A Smart Telegraph Operator—A Nabob in New York City—Charters an Omnibus—“Walk in, It’s All Free”—“You Can’t Pay a Cent”—“Hold On, Driver, I Weaken”—Sociability of New Yorkers |
| CHAPTER XLVII. | Buck Fanshaw’s Death—The Cause Thereof—Preparations for His Burial—Scotty Briggs the Committee Man—He Visits the Minister—Scotty Can’t Play His Hand—The Minister Gets Mixed—Both Begin to See—“All Down Again But Nine”—Buck Fanshaw as a Citizen—How To “Shook Your Mother”—The Funeral—Scotty Briggs as a Sunday School Teacher |
| CHAPTER XLVIII. | The First Twenty-Six Graves in Nevada—The Prominent Men of the County—The Man Who Had Killed His Dozen—Trial by Jury—Specimen Jurors—A Private Grave Yard—The Desperadoes—Who They Killed—Waking up the Weary Passenger—Satisfaction Without Fighting |
| CHAPTER XLIX. | Fatal Shooting Affray—Robbery and Desperate Affray—A Specimen City Official—A Marked Man—A Street Fight—Punishment of Crime |
| CHAPTER L. | Captain Ned Blakely—Bill Nookes Receives Desired Information—Killing of Blakely’s Mate—A Walking Battery—Blakely Secures Nookes—Hang First and Be Tried Afterwards—Captain Blakely as a Chaplain—The First Chapter of Genesis Read at a Hanging—Nookes Hung—Blakely’s Regrets |
| CHAPTER LI. | The Weekly Occidental—A Ready Editor—A Novel—A Concentration of Talent—The Heroes and the Heroines—The Dissolute Author Engaged—Extraordinary Havoc With the Novel—A Highly Romantic Chapter—The Lovers Separated—Jonah Out-done—A Lost Poem—The Aged Pilot Man—Storm On the Erie Canal—Dollinger the Pilot Man—Terrific Gale—Danger Increases—A Crisis Arrived—Saved as if by a Miracle |
| CHAPTER LII. | Freights to California—Silver Bricks—Under Ground Mines—Timber Supports—A Visit to the Mines—The Caved Mines—Total of Shipments in 1863 |
| CHAPTER LIII. | Jim Blaine and his Grandfather’s Ram—Filkin’s Mistake—Old Miss Wagner and her Glass Eye—Jacobs, the Coffin Dealer—Waiting for a Customer—His Bargain With Old Robbins—Robbins Sues for Damage and Collects—A New Use for Missionaries—The Effect—His Uncle Lem and the Use Providence Made of Him—Sad Fate of Wheeler—Devotion of His Wife—A Model Monument—What About the Ram? |
| CHAPTER LIV. | Chinese in Virginia City—Washing Bills—Habit of Imitation—Chinese Immigration—A Visit to Chinatown—Messrs. Ah Sing, Hong Wo, See Yup, &c |
| CHAPTER LV. | Tired of Virginia City—An Old Schoolmate—A Two Years’ Loan—Acting as an Editor—Almost Receive an Offer—An Accident—Three Drunken Anecdotes—Last Look at Mt. Davidson—A Beautiful Incident |
| CHAPTER LVI. | Off for San Francisco—Western and Eastern Landscapes—The Hottest place on Earth—Summer and Winter |
| CHAPTER LVII. | California—Novelty of Seeing a Woman—“Well if it ain’t a Child!”—One Hundred and Fifty Dollars for a Kiss—Waiting for a turn |
| CHAPTER LVIII. | Life in San Francisco—Worthless Stocks—My First Earthquake—Reportorial Instincts—Effects of the Shocks—Incidents and Curiosities—Sabbath Breakers—The Lodger and the Chambermaid—A Sensible Fashion to Follow—Effects of the Earthquake on the Ministers |
| CHAPTER LIX. | Poor Again—Slinking as a Business—A Model Collector—Misery loves Company—Comparing Notes for Comfort—A Streak of Luck—Finding a Dime—Wealthy by Comparison—Two Sumptuous Dinners |
| CHAPTER LX. | An Old Friend—An Educated Miner—Pocket Mining—Freaks of Fortune |
| CHAPTER LXI. | Dick Baker and his Cat—Tom Quartz’s Peculiarities—On an Excursion—Appearance On His Return—A Prejudiced Cat—Empty Pockets and a Roving Life |
| CHAPTER LXII. | Bound for the Sandwich Islands—The Three Captains—The Old Admiral—His Daily Habits—His Well Fought Fields—An Unexpected Opponent—The Admiral Overpowered—The Victor Declared a Hero |
| CHAPTER LXIII. | Arrival at the Islands—Honolulu—What I Saw There—Dress and Habits of the Inhabitants—The Animal Kingdom—Fruits and Delightful Effects |
| CHAPTER LXIV. | An Excursion—Captain Phillips and his Turn-Out—A Horseback Ride—A Vicious Animal—Nature and Art—Interesting Ruins—All Praise to the Missionaries |
| CHAPTER LXV. | Interesting Mementoes and Relics—An Old Legend of a Frightful Leap—An Appreciative Horse—Horse Jockeys and Their Brothers—A New Trick—A Hay Merchant—Good Country for Horse Lovers |
| CHAPTER LXVI. | A Saturday Afternoon—Sandwich Island Girls on a Frolic—The Poi Merchant—Grand Gala Day—A Native Dance—Church Membership—Cats and Officials—An Overwhelming Discovery |
| CHAPTER LXVII. | The Legislature of the Island—What Its President Has Seen—Praying for an Enemy—Women’s Rights—Romantic Fashions—Worship of the Shark—Desire for Dress—Full Dress—Not Paris Style—Playing Empire—Officials and Foreign Ambassadors—Overwhelming Magnificence |
| CHAPTER LXVIII. | A Royal Funeral—Order of Procession—Pomp and Ceremony—A Striking Contrast—A Sick Monarch—Human Sacrifices at His Death—Burial Orgies |
| CHAPTER LXIX. | “Once more upon the Waters.”—A Noisy Passenger—Several Silent Ones—A Moonlight Scene—Fruits and Plantations |
| CHAPTER LXX. | A Droll Character—Mrs. Beazely and Her Son—Meditations on Turnips—A Letter from Horace Greeley—An Indignant Rejoinder—The Letter Translated but too Late |
| CHAPTER LXXI. | Kealakekua Bay—Death of Captain Cook—His Monument—Its Construction—On Board the Schooner |
| CHAPTER LXXII. | Young Kanakas in New England—A Temple Built by Ghosts—Female Bathers—I Stood Guard—Women and Whiskey—A Fight for Religion—Arrival of Missionaries |
| CHAPTER LXXIII. | Native Canoes—Surf Bathing—A Sanctuary—How Built—The Queen’s Rock—Curiosities—Petrified Lava |
| CHAPTER LXXIV. | Visit to the Volcano—The Crater—Pillar of Fire—Magnificent Spectacle—A Lake of Fire |
| CHAPTER LXXV. | The North Lake—Fountains of Fire—Streams of Burning Lava—Tidal Waves |
| CHAPTER LXXVI. | A Reminiscence—Another Horse Story—My Ride with the Retired Milk Horse- -A Picnicing Excursion—Dead Volcano of Holeakala—Comparison with Vesuvius—An Inside View |
| CHAPTER LXXVII. | A Curious Character—A Series of Stories—Sad Fate of a Liar—Evidence of Insanity |
| CHAPTER LXXVIII. | Return to San Francisco—Ship Amusements—Preparing for Lecturing—Valuable Assistance Secured—My First Attempt—The Audience Carried—“All’s Well that Ends Well." |
| CHAPTER LXXIX. | Highwaymen—A Predicament—A Huge Joke—Farewell to California—At Home Again—Great Changes. Moral. |
| APPENDIX. A. | —Brief Sketch of Mormon History B.—The Mountain Meadows Massacre C.—Concerning a Frightful Assassination that was never Consummated |
| I. |
The
birth of the Prince and the Pauper. |
| II. |
Tom’s
early life. |
| III. |
Tom’s
meeting with the Prince. |
| IV. |
The
Prince’s troubles begin. |
| V. |
Tom
as a patrician. |
| VI. |
Tom
receives instructions. |
| VII. |
Tom’s
first royal dinner. |
| VIII. |
The
question of the Seal. |
| IX. |
The
river pageant. |
| X. |
The
Prince in the toils. |
| XI. |
At
Guildhall. |
| XII. |
The
Prince and his deliverer. |
| XIII. |
The
disappearance of the Prince. |
| XIV. |
‘Le
Roi est mort’—vive le Roi.‘ |
| XV. |
Tom
as King. |
| XVI. |
The
state dinner. |
| XVII. |
Foo-foo
the First. |
| XVIII. |
The
Prince with the tramps. |
| XIX. |
The
Prince with the peasants. |
| XX. |
The
Prince and the hermit. |
| XXI. |
Hendon
to the rescue. |
| XXII. |
A
victim of treachery. |
| XXIII. |
The
Prince a prisoner. |
| XXIV. |
The
escape. |
| XXV. |
Hendon
Hall. |
| XXVI. |
Disowned. |
| XXVII. |
In
prison. |
| XXVIII. |
The
sacrifice. |
| XXIX. |
To
London. |
| XXX. |
Tom’s
progress. |
| XXXI. |
The
Recognition procession. |
| XXXII. |
Coronation
Day. |
| XXXIII. |
Edward
as King. |
| CONCLUSION. |
Justice
and Retribution. |
|
Notes. |
| CHAPTER I. |
CAMELOT |
| CHAPTER II. |
KING ARTHUR’S COURT |
| CHAPTER III. |
KNIGHTS OF THE TABLE ROUND |
| CHAPTER IV. |
SIR DINADAN THE HUMORIST |
| CHAPTER V. |
AN INSPIRATION |
| CHAPTER VI. |
THE ECLIPSE |
| CHAPTER VII. |
MERLIN’S TOWER |
| CHAPTER VIII. |
THE BOSS |
| CHAPTER IX. |
THE TOURNAMENT |
| CHAPTER X. |
BEGINNINGS OF CIVILIZATION |
| CHAPTER XI. |
THE YANKEE IN SEARCH OF ADVENTURES |
| CHAPTER XII. |
SLOW TORTURE |
| CHAPTER XIII. |
FREEMEN! |
| CHAPTER XIV. |
“DEFEND THEE, LORD! |
| CHAPTER XV. |
SANDY’S TALE |
| CHAPTER XVI. |
MORGAN LE FAY |
| CHAPTER XVII. |
A ROYAL BANQUET |
| CHAPTER XVIII. |
IN THE QUEEN’S DUNGEONS |
| CHAPTER XIX. |
KNIGHT ERRANTRY AS A TRADE |
| CHAPTER XX. |
THE OGRE’S CASTLE |
| CHAPTER XXI. |
THE PILGRIMS |
| CHAPTER XXII. |
THE HOLY FOUNTAIN |
| CHAPTER XXIII. |
RESTORATION OF THE FOUNTAIN |
| CHAPTER XXIV. |
A RIVAL MAGICIAN |
| CHAPTER XXV. |
A COMPETITIVE EXAMINATION |
| CHAPTER XXVI. |
THE FIRST NEWSPAPER |
| CHAPTER XXVII. |
THE YANKEE AND THE KING TRAVEL INCOGNITO |
| CHAPTER XXVIII. |
DRILLING THE KING |
| CHAPTER XXIX. |
THE SMALL-POX HUT |
| CHAPTER XXX. |
THE TRAGEDY OF THE MANOR-HOUSE |
| CHAPTER XXXI. |
MARCO |
| CHAPTER XXXII. |
DOWLEY’S HUMILIATION |
| CHAPTER XXXIII. |
SIXTH CENTURY POLITICAL ECONOMY |
| CHAPTER XXXIV. |
THE YANKEE AND THE KING SOLD AS SLAVES |
| CHAPTER XXXV. |
A PITIFUL INCIDENT |
| CHAPTER XXXVI. |
AN ENCOUNTER IN THE DARK |
| CHAPTER XXXVII. |
AN AWFUL PREDICAMENT |
| CHAPTER XXXVIII. |
SIR LAUNCELOT AND KNIGHTS TO THE RESCUE |
| CHAPTER XXXIX. |
THE YANKEE’S FIGHT WITH THE KNIGHTS |
| CHAPTER XL. |
THREE YEARS LATER |
| CHAPTER XLI. |
THE INTERDICT |
| CHAPTER XLII. |
WAR! |
| CHAPTER XLIII. |
THE BATTLE OF THE SAND-BELT |
| CHAPTER XLIV. |
A POSTSCRIPT BY CLARENCE |
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CHAPTER
I. |
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II. La Salle again Appears, and so does a Cat-fish.—Buffaloes also. —Some Indian Paintings are Seen on the Rocks.—“The Father of Waters “does not Flow into the Pacific.—More History and Indians. —Some Curious Performances—not Early English.—Natchez, or the Site of it, is Approached. |
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CHAPTER
III. A little History.—Early Commerce.—Coal Fleets and Timber Rafts. —We start on a Voyage.—I seek Information.—Some Music.—The Trouble begins.—Tall Talk.—The Child of Calamity.—Ground and lofty Tumbling.—The Wash-up.—Business and Statistics.— Mysterious Band.—Thunder and Lightning.—The Captain speaks. —Allbright weeps.—The Mystery settled.—Chaff.—I am Discovered. —Some Art-work proposed.—I give an Account of Myself.—Released. |
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IV. The Boys' Ambition.—Village Scenes.—Steamboat Pictures. —A Heavy Swell.—A Runaway. |
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CHAPTER
V. A Traveller.—A Lively Talker.—A Wild-cat Victim |
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CHAPTER
VI. Besieging the Pilot.—Taken along.—Spoiling a Nap.—Fishing for a Plantation.—“Points” on the River.—A Gorgeous Pilot-house. |
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CHAPTER
VII. River Inspectors.—Cottonwoods and Plum Point.—Hat-Island Crossing. —Touch and Go.—It is a Go.—A Lightning Pilot |
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CHAPTER
VIII. A Heavy-loaded Big Gun.—Sharp Sights in Darkness.—Abandoned to his Fate.—Scraping the Banks.—Learn him or Kill him. |
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CHAPTER
IX. Shake the Reef.—Reason Dethroned.—The Face of the Water. —A Bewitching Scene.-Romance and Beauty. |
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CHAPTER
X. Putting on Airs.—Taken down a bit.—Learn it as it is.—The River Rising. |
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CHAPTER
XI. In thg Tract Business.—Effects of the Rise.—Plantations gone. —A Measureless Sea.—A Somnambulist Pilot.—Supernatural Piloting. —Nobody there.—All Saved. |
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CHAPTER
XII. Low Water.—Yawl sounding.—Buoys and Lanterns.—Cubs and Soundings.—The Boat Sunk.—Seeking the Wrecked. |
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CHAPTER
XIII. A Pilot's Memory.—Wages soaring.—A Universal Grasp.—Skill and Nerve.—Testing a “Cub.”—“Back her for Life.”—A Good Lesson. |
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CHAPTER
XIV. Pilots and Captains.—High-priced Pilots.—Pilots in Demand. —A Whistler.—A cheap Trade.—Two-hundred-and-fifty-dollar Speed. |
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CHAPTER
XV. New Pilots undermining the Pilots' Association.—Crutches and Wages. —Putting on Airs.—The Captains Weaken.—The Association Laughs. —The Secret Sign.—An Admirable System.—Rough on Outsiders. —A Tight Monopoly.—No Loophole.—The Railroads and the War. |
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CHAPTER
XVI. All Aboard.—A Glorious Start.—Loaded to Win.—Bands and Bugles. —Boats and Boats.—Racers and Racing. |
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CHAPTER
XVII. Cut-offs.—Ditching and Shooting.—Mississippi Changes.—A Wild Night.—Swearing and Guessing.—Stephen in Debt.—He Confuses his Creditors.—He makes a New Deal.—Will Pay them Alphabetically. |
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CHAPTER
XVIII. Sharp Schooling.—Shadows.—I am Inspected.—Where did you get them Shoes?—Pull her Down.—I want to kill Brown.—I try to run her.- I am Complimented. |
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CHAPTER
XIX. A Question of Veracity.—A Little Unpleasantness.—I have an Audience with the Captain.—Mr. Brown Retires. |
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CHAPTER
XX. I become a Passenger.—We hear the News.—A Thunderous Crash. —They Stand to their Posts.—In the Blazing Sun.—A Grewsome Spectacle.—His Hour has Struck. |
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CHAPTER
XXI. I get my License.—The War Begins.—I become a Jack-of-all-trades. |
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CHAPTER
XXII. I try the Alias Business.—Region of Goatees—Boots begin to Appear. —The River Man is Missing.—The Young Man is Discouraged.— Specimen Water.—A Fine Quality of Smoke.—A Supreme Mistake. —We Inspect the Town.—Desolation Way-traffic.—A Wood-yard. |
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CHAPTER
XXIII. Old French Settlements.—We start for Memphis.—Young Ladies and Russia-leather Bags. |
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CHAPTER
XXIV. I receive some Information.—Alligator Boats.—Alligator Talk. —She was a Rattler to go.—I am Found Out. |
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CHAPTER
XXV. The Devil's Oven and Table.—A Bombshell falls.—No Whitewash. —Thirty Years on the River.-Mississippi Uniforms.—Accidents and Casualties.—Two hundred Wrecks.—A Loss to Literature.—Sunday- Schools and Brick Masons. |
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CHAPTER
XXVI. War Talk.—I Tilt over Backwards.—Fifteen Shot-holes.—A Plain Story.—Wars and Feuds.—Darnell versus Watson.—A Gang and a Woodpile.—Western Grammar.—River Changes.—New Madrid. —Floods and Falls. |
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CHAPTER
XXVII. Tourists and their Note-books.—Captain Hall.—Mrs. Trollope's Emotions.—Hon. Charles Augustus Murray's Sentiment.—Captain Marryat's Sensations.—Alexander Mackay's Feelings. —Mr. Parkman Reports |
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CHAPTER
XXVIII. Swinging down the River.—Named for Me.—Plum Point again. —Lights and Snag Boats.—Infinite Changes.—A Lawless River. —Changes and Jetties.—Uncle Mumford Testifies.—Pegging the River.—What the Government does.—The Commission.—Men and Theories.—“Had them Bad.”—Jews and Prices. |
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CHAPTER
XXIX. Murel's Gang.—A Consummate Villain.—Getting Rid of Witnesses. —Stewart turns Traitor.—I Start a Rebellion.—I get a New Suit of Clothes.—We Cover our Tracks.—Pluck and Capacity.—A Good Samaritan City.—The Old and the New. |
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CHAPTER
XXX. A Melancholy Picture.—On the Move.—River Gossip.—She Went By a-Sparklin'.—Amenities of Life.—A World of Misinformation.— Eloquence of Silence.—Striking a Snag.—Photographically Exact. —Plank Side-walks. |
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CHAPTER
XXXI. Mutinous Language.—The Dead-house.—Cast-iron German and Flexible English.—A Dying Man's Confession.—I am Bound and Gagged. —I get Myself Free.—I Begin my Search.—The Man with one Thumb. —Red Paint and White Paper.—He Dropped on his Knees.—Fright and Gratitude.—I Fled through the Woods.—A Grisly Spectacle. —Shout, Man, Shout.—A look of Surprise and Triumph.—The Muffled Gurgle of a Mocking Laugh.—How strangely Things happen. —The Hidden Money. |
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CHAPTER
XXXII. Ritter's Narrative.—A Question of Money.—Napoleon.—Somebody is Serious.—Where the Prettiest Girl used to Live. |
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CHAPTER
XXXIII. A Question of Division.—A Place where there was no License.—The Calhoun Land Company.—A Cotton-planter's Estimate.—Halifax and Watermelons.—Jewelled-up Bar-keepers. |
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CHAPTER
XXXIV. An Austere Man.—A Mosquito Policy.—Facts dressed in Tights. —A swelled Left Ear. |
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CHAPTER
XXXV. Signs and Scars.—Cannon-thunder Rages.—Cave-dwellers. —A Continual Sunday.—A ton of Iron and no Glass.—The Ardent is Saved.—Mule Meat—A National Cemetery.—A Dog and a Shell. —Railroads and Wealth.—Wharfage Economy.—Vicksburg versus The “Gold Dust.”—A Narrative in Anticipation. |
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CHAPTER
XXXVI. The Professor Spins a Yarn.—An Enthusiast in Cattle.—He makes a Proposition.—Loading Beeves at Acapulco.—He was n't Raised to it. —He is Roped In.—His Dull Eyes Lit Up.—Four Aces, you Ass! —He does n't Care for the Gores. |
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CHAPTER
XXXVII. A Terrible Disaster.—The “Gold Dust” explodes her Boilers. —The End of a Good Man. |
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CHAPTER
XXXVIII. Mr. Dickens has a Word.—Best Dwellings and their Furniture.—Albums and Music.—Pantelettes and Conch-shells.—Sugar-candy Rabbits and Photographs.—Horse-hair Sofas and Snuffers.—Rag Carpets and Bridal Chambers. |
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CHAPTER
XXXIX. Rowdies and Beauty.—Ice as Jewelry.—Ice Manufacture.—More Statistics.—Some Drummers.—Oleomargarine versus Butter. —Olive Oil versus Cotton Seed.—The Answer was not Caught. —A Terrific Episode.—A Sulphurous Canopy.—The Demons of War. —The Terrible Gauntlet. |
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CHAPTER
XL. In Flowers, like a Bride.—A White-washed Castle.—A Southern Prospectus.—Pretty Pictures.—An Alligator's Meal. |
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CHAPTER
XLI. The Approaches to New Orleans.—A Stirring Street.—Sanitary Improvements.—Journalistic Achievements.—Cisterns and Wells. |
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CHAPTER
XLII. Beautiful Grave-yards.—Chameleons and Panaceas.—Inhumation and Infection.—Mortality and Epidemics.—The Cost of Funerals. |
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CHAPTER
XLIII. I meet an Acquaintance.—Coffins and Swell Houses.—Mrs. O'Flaherty goes One Better.—Epidemics and Embamming.—Six hundred for a Good Case.—Joyful High Spirits. |
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CHAPTER
XLIV. French and Spanish Parts of the City.—Mr. Cable and the Ancient Quarter.—Cabbages and Bouquets.—Cows and Children.—The Shell Road. The West End.—A Good Square Meal.—The Pompano.—The Broom- Brigade.—Historical Painting.—Southern Speech.—Lagniappe. |
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CHAPTER
XLV. “Waw” Talk.—Cock-Fighting.—Too Much to Bear.—Fine Writing. —Mule Racing. |
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CHAPTER
XLVI. Mardi-Gras.—The Mystic Crewe.—Rex and Relics.—Sir Walter Scott. —A World Set Back.—Titles and Decorations.—A Change. |
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CHAPTER
XLVII. Uncle Remus.—The Children Disappointed.—We Read Aloud. —Mr. Cable and Jean au Poquelin.—Involuntary Trespass.—The Gilded Age.—An Impossible Combination.—The Owner Materializes and Protests. |
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XLVIII. Tight Curls and Springy Steps.—Steam-plows.—“No. I.” Sugar. —A Frankenstein Laugh.—Spiritual Postage.—A Place where there are no Butchers or Plumbers.—Idiotic Spasms. |
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XLIX. Pilot-Farmers.—Working on Shares.—Consequences.—Men who Stick to their Posts.—He saw what he would do.—A Day after the Fair. |
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L. A Patriarch.—Leaves from a Diary.—A Tongue-stopper.—The Ancient Mariner.—Pilloried in Print.—Petrified Truth. |
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LI. A Fresh “Cub” at the Wheel.—A Valley Storm.—Some Remarks on Construction.—Sock and Buskin.—The Man who never played Hamlet.—I got Thirsty.—Sunday Statistics. |
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LII. I Collar an Idea.—A Graduate of Harvard.—A Penitent Thief. —His Story in the Pulpit.—Something Symmetrical.—A Literary Artist. —A Model Epistle.—Pumps again Working.—The “Nub” of the Note. |
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LIII. A Masterly Retreat.—A Town at Rest.—Boyhood's Pranks.—Friends of my Youth.—The Refuge for Imbeciles.—I am Presented with my Measure. |
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LIV. A Special Judgment.—Celestial Interest.—A Night of Agony. —Another Bad Attack.—I become Convalescent.—I address a Sunday-school.—A Model Boy. |
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LV. A second Generation.—A hundred thousand Tons of Saddles.—A Dark and Dreadful Secret.—A Large Family.—A Golden-haired Darling. —The Mysterious Cross.—My Idol is Broken.—A Bad Season of Chills and Fever.—An Interesting Cave. |
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LVI. Perverted History—A Guilty Conscience.—A Supposititious Case. —A Habit to be Cultivated.—I Drop my Burden.—Difference in Time. |
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LVII. A Model Town.—A Town that Comes up to Blow in the Summer. —The Scare-crow Dean.—Spouting Smoke and Flame.—An Atmosphere that tastes good.—The Sunset Land. |
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LVIII. An Independent Race.—Twenty-four-hour Towns.—Enchanting Scenery. —The Home of the Plow.—Black Hawk.—Fluctuating Securities. —A Contrast.—Electric Lights. |
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LIX. Indian Traditions and Rattlesnakes.—A Three-ton Word.—Chimney Rock.—The Panorama Man.—A Good Jump.—The Undying Head. —Peboan and Seegwun. |
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LX. The Head of Navigation.—From Roses to Snow.—Climatic Vaccination. —A Long Ride.—Bones of Poverty.—The Pioneer of Civilization. —Jug of Empire.—Siamese Twins.—The Sugar-bush.—He Wins his Bride. —The Mystery about the Blanket.—A City that is always a Novelty. —Home again. |
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