Following the Equator — Part 1

FOLLOWING THE EQUATOR, Part 1
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FOLLOWING THE EQUATOR
Part 1.
A JOURNEY AROUND THE WORLD BY MARK TWAIN
SAMUEL L. CLEMENS HARTFORD, CONNECTICUT
CONTENTS OF VOLUME 1.
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 ...