Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World. Part 1

Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World. Part 1

The PartyAcross America to VancouverOn Board the WarrimoSteamer Chairs-The Captain-Going Home under a CloudA Gritty PurserThe Brightest PassengerRemedy for Bad HabitsThe Doctor and the LumbagoA Moral PauperLimited SmokingRemittance-men. CHAPTER II. Change of CostumeFish, Snake, and Boomerang StoriesTests of MemoryA Brahmin ExpertGeneral Grant's MemoryA Delicately Improper Tale CHAPTER III. HonoluluReminiscences of the Sandwich IslandsKing Liholiho and His Royal EquipmentThe TabuThe Population of the IslandA Kanaka DiverCholera at HonoluluHonolulu; Past and PresentThe Leper Colony CHAPTER IV. Leaving HonoluluFlying-fishApproaching the EquatorWhy the Ship Went SlowThe Front Yard of the ShipCrossing the EquatorHorse Billiards or Shovel BoardThe Waterbury WatchWashing DecksShip PaintersThe Great MeridianThe Loss of a DayA Babe without a Birthday CHAPTER V. A lesson in PronunciationReverence for Robert BurnsThe Southern CrossTroublesome ConstellationsVictoria for a NameIslands on the MapAlofa and FortunaRecruiting for the Queensland PlantationsCaptain Warren's NoteBookRecruiting not thoroughly Popular CHAPTER VI. Missionaries Obstruct BusinessThe Sugar Planter and the KanakaThe Planter's ViewCivilizing the Kanaka The Missionary's ViewThe ResultRepentant KanakasWrinklesThe Death Rate in Queensland CHAPTER VII. The Fiji IslandsSuvaThe Ship from DuluthGoing AshoreMidwinter in FijiSeeing the GovernorWhy Fiji was Ceded to EnglandOld time FijiansConvicts among the FijiansA Case Where Marriage was a Failure Immortality with Limitations CHAPTER VIII. A Wilderness of IslandsTwo Men without a CountryA Naturalist from New ZealandThe Fauna of AustralasiaAnimals, Insects, and BirdsThe OrnithorhynchusPoetry and Plagiarism ......Buy Now (To Read More)

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Ebook Number: 5808
Author: Twain, Mark
Release Date: Jun 23, 2004
Format: eBook
Language: English