FOLLOWING

THE EQUATOR




Part 1.




A JOURNEY AROUND THE WORLD

BY

MARK TWAIN




SAMUEL L. CLEMENS

HARTFORD, CONNECTICUT





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CONTENTS  OF   VOLUME 1.

CHAPTER I.

The Party—Across America to Vancouver—On Board the Warrimo—SteamerChairs-The Captain-Going Home under a Cloud—A Gritty Purser—TheBrightest Passenger—Remedy for Bad Habits—The Doctor and theLumbago—A Moral Pauper—Limited Smoking—Remittance-men.


CHAPTER II.

Change of Costume—Fish, Snake, and Boomerang Stories—Tests ofMemory—A Brahmin Expert—General Grant's Memory—A Delicately Improper Tale


CHAPTER III.

Honolulu—Reminiscences of the Sandwich Islands—King Liholiho and HisRoyal Equipment—The Tabu—The Population of the Island—A KanakaDiver—Cholera at Honolulu—Honolulu; Past and Present—The Leper Colony


CHAPTER IV.

Leaving Honolulu—Flying-fish—Approaching the Equator—Why the Ship WentSlow—The Front Yard of the Ship—Crossing the Equator—Horse Billiardsor Shovel Board—The Waterbury Watch—Washing Decks—Ship Painters—TheGreat Meridian—The Loss of a Day—A Babe without a Birthday


CHAPTER V.

A lesson in Pronunciation—Reverence for Robert Burns—The SouthernCross—Troublesome Constellations—Victoria for a Name—Islands on theMap—Alofa and Fortuna—Recruiting for the QueenslandPlantations—Captain Warren's NoteBook—Recruiting not thoroughly Popular


CHAPTER VI.
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