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Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. I (of 2)
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16 Chapters
Chapter 1 I Foot In Stirrup
Chapter 2 II A Calm
Chapter 3 III A King For A Comrade
Chapter 4 IV A Chat In The Clouds
Chapter 5 V Seats Secured And Portmanteaus Packed
Chapter 6 VI Eight Bells
Chapter 7 VII A Pause
Chapter 8 VIII They Push Off, Velis Et Remis
Chapter 9 IX The Watery World Is All Before Them
Chapter 10 X They Arrange Their Canopies And Lounges, And Try To Make Things Comfortable
Chapter 11 XI Jarl Afflicted With The Lockjaw
Chapter 12 XII More About Being In An Open Boat
Chapter 13 XIII Of The Chondropterygii, And Other Uncouth Hordes Infesting The South Seas
Chapter 14 XIV Jarl's Misgivings
Chapter 15 XV A Stitch In Time Saves Nine
Chapter 16 XVI They Are Becalmed
Chapter 17 XVII In High Spirits, They Push On For The Terra Incognita
Chapter 18 XVIII My Lord Shark And His Pages
Chapter 19 XIX Who Goes There
Chapter 20 XX Noises And Portents
Chapter 21 XXI Man Ho!
Chapter 22 XXII What Befel The Brigantine At The Pearl Shell Islands
Chapter 23 XXIII Sailing From The Island They Pillage The Cabin
Chapter 24 XXIV Dedicated To The College Of Physicians And Surgeons
Chapter 25 Maker
Chapter 26 XXVI Containing A Pennyweight Of Philosophy
Chapter 27 XXVII In Which The Past History Op The Parki Is Concluded
Chapter 28 XXVIII Suspicions Laid, And Something About The Calmuc
Chapter 29 XXIX What They Lighted Upon In Further Searching The Craft, And The Resolution They Came To
Chapter 30 XXX Hints For A Full Length Of Samoa
Chapter 31 XXXI Rovings Alow And Aloft
Chapter 32 XXXII Xiphius Platypterus
Chapter 33 XXXIII Otard
Chapter 34 XXXIV How They Steered On Their Way
Chapter 35 XXXV Ah, Annatoo!
Chapter 36 XXXVI The Parki Gives Up The Ghost
Chapter 37 XXXVII Once More They Take To The Chamois
Chapter 38 XXXVIII The Sea On Fire
Chapter 39 XXXIX They Fall In With Strangers
Chapter 40 XL Sire And Sons
Chapter 41 XLI A Fray
Chapter 42 XLII Remorse
Chapter 43 XLIII The Tent Entered
Chapter 44 XLIV Away
Chapter 45 XLV Reminiscences
Chapter 46 XLVI The Chamois With A Roving Commission
Chapter 47 XLVII Yillah, Jarl, And Samoa
Chapter 48 XLVIII Something Under The Surface
Chapter 49 XLIX Yillah
Chapter 50 L Yillah In Ardair
Chapter 51 LI The Dream Begins To Fade
Chapter 52 LII World Ho!
Chapter 53 LIII The Chamois Ashore
Chapter 54 LIV A Gentleman From The Sun
Chapter 55 LV Tiffin In A Temple
Chapter 56 LVI King Media A Host
Chapter 57 LVII Taji Takes Counsel With Himself
Chapter 58 LVIII Mardi By Night And Yillah By Day
Chapter 59 LIX Their Morning Meal
Chapter 60 LX Belshazzar On The Bench
Chapter 61 LXI An Incognito
Chapter 62 LXII Taji Retires From The World
Chapter 63 LXIII Odo And Its Lord
Chapter 64 LXIV Yillah A Phantom
Chapter 65 LXV Taji Makes Three Acquaintances
Chapter 66 LXVI With A Fair Wind, At Sunrise They Sail
Chapter 67 LXVII Little King Peepi
Chapter 68 LXVIII How Teeth Were Regarded In Valapee
Chapter 69 Beard Rehearses A Legend
Chapter 70 Song; And A Message Is Received From Abroad
Chapter 71 LXXI They Land Upon The Island Of Juam
Chapter 72 LXXII A Book From The Chronicles Of Mohi
Chapter 73 LXXIII Something More Of The Prince
Chapter 74 LXXIV Advancing Deeper Into The Vale, They Encounter Donjalolo
Chapter 75 LXXV Time And Temples
Chapter 76 LXXVI A Pleasant Place For A Lounge
Chapter 77 LXXVII The House Of The Afternoon
Chapter 78 LXXVIII Babbalanja Solus
Chapter 79 LXXIX The Center Of Many Circumferences
Chapter 80 LXXX Donjalolo In The Bosom Of His Family
Chapter 81 LXXXI Wherein Babbalanja Relates The Adventure Of One Karkeke In The Land Of Shades
Chapter 82 LXXXII How Donjalolo, Sent Agents To The Surrounding Isles; With The Result
Chapter 83 LXXXIII They Visit The Tributary Islets
Chapter 84 And-Twenty Kings, And A Royal Time They Have
Chapter 85 LXXXV After Dinner
Chapter 86 LXXXVI Of Those Scamps The Plujii
Chapter 87 Bamma
Chapter 88 LXXXVIII In A Calm, Hautia's Heralds Approach
Chapter 89 Beard Rehearses The Origin Of The Isle Of Rogues
Chapter 90 XC Rare Sport At Ohonoo
Chapter 91 XCI Of King Uhia And His Subjects
Chapter 92 XCII The God Keevi And The Precipice Op Mondo
Chapter 93 XCIII Babbalanja Steps In Between Mohi And Yoomy; And Yoomy Relates A Legend
Chapter 94 Ponds, And The Hereafters Of Fish
Chapter 95 XCV That Jolly Old Lord Borabolla Laughs On Both Sides Of His Face
Chapter 96 XCVI Samoa A Surgeon
Chapter 97 XCVII Faith And Knowledge
Chapter 98 XCVIII The Tale Of A Traveler
Chapter 99 XCIX Marnee Ora, Ora Marnee
Chapter 100 C The Pursuer Himself Is Pursued
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Chapter 16 XVI They Are Becalmed

On the eighth day there was a calm.

It came on by night: so that waking at daybreak, and folding my arms over the gunwale, I looked out upon a scene very hard to describe. The sun was still beneath the horizon; perhaps not yet out of sight from the plains of Paraguay. But the dawn was too strong for the stars; which, one by one, had gone out, li

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