Contents

VOLUME ONE

Preface

CHAPTER 1 • Foot in Stirrup

CHAPTER 2 • A Calm

CHAPTER 3 • A King for a Comrade

CHAPTER 4 • A Chat in the Clouds

CHAPTER 5 • Seats secured and Portmanteaus packed

CHAPTER 6 • Eight Bells

CHAPTER 7 • A Pause

CHAPTER 8 • They push off, Velis et Remis

CHAPTER 9 • The Watery World is all before Them

CHAPTER 10 • They arrange their Canopies and Lounges, and try to make Things comfortable

CHAPTER 11 • Jarl afflicted with the Lockjaw

CHAPTER 12 • More about being in an open Boat

CHAPTER 13 • Of the Chondropterygii, and other uncouth Hordes infesting the South Seas

CHAPTER 14 • Jarl’s Misgivings

CHAPTER 15 • A Stitch in Time saves Nine

CHAPTER 16 • They are Becalmed

CHAPTER 17 • In high Spirits they push on for the Terra Incognita

CHAPTER 18 • My Lord Shark and his Pages

CHAPTER 19 • Who goes there?

CHAPTER 20 • Noises and Portents

CHAPTER 21 • Man ho!

CHAPTER 22 • What befel the Brigantine at the Pearl Shell Islands

CHAPTER 23 • Sailing from the Island they pillage the Cabin

CHAPTER 24 • Dedicated to the College of Physicians and Surgeons

CHAPTER 25 • Peril a Peace-maker

CHAPTER 26 • Containing a Pennyweight of Philosophy

CHAPTER 27 • In which the past History of the Parki is concluded

CHAPTER 28 • Suspicions laid, and something about the Calmuc

CHAPTER 29 • What they lighted upon in further searching the Craft, and the Resolution they came to

CHAPTER 30 • Hints for a full length of Samoa

CHAPTER 31 • Rovings Alow and Aloft

CHAPTER 32 • Xiphius Platypterus

CHAPTER 33 • Otard

CHAPTER 34 • How they steered on their Way

CHAPTER 35 • Ah, Annatoo!

CHAPTER 36 • The Parki gives up the Ghost

CHAPTER 37 • Once more they take to the Chamois

CHAPTER 38 • The Sea on Fire

CHAPTER 39 • They fall in with Strangers

CHAPTER 40 • Sire and Sons

CHAPTER 41 • A Fray

CHAPTER 42 • Remorse

CHAPTER 43 • The Tent entered

CHAPTER 44 • Away!

CHAPTER 45 • Reminiscences

CHAPTER 46 • The Chamois with a roving Commission

CHAPTER 47 • Yillah, Jarl, and Samoa

CHAPTER 48 • Something under the Surface

CHAPTER 49 • Yillah

CHAPTER 50 • Yillah in Ardair

CHAPTER 51 • The Dream begins to fade

CHAPTER 52 • World ho!

CHAPTER 53 • The Chamois Ashore

CHAPTER 54 • A Gentleman from the Sun

CHAPTER 55 • Tiffin in a Temple

CHAPTER 56 • King Media a Host

CHAPTER 57 • Taji takes Counsel with himself

CHAPTER 58 • Mardi by Night and Yillah by Day

CHAPTER 59 • Their Morning Meal

CHAPTER 60 • Belshazzar on the Bench

CHAPTER 61 • An Incognito

CHAPTER 62 • Taji retires from the World

CHAPTER 63 • Odo and its Lord

CHAPTER 64 • Yillah a Phantom

CHAPTER 65 • Taji makes three Acquaintances

CHAPTER 66 • With a fair Wind, at Sunrise they sail

CHAPTER 67 • Little King Peepi

CHAPTER 68 • How Teeth were regarded in Valapee

CHAPTER 69 • The Company discourse, and Braid-Beard rehearses a Legend

CHAPTER 70 • The Minstrel leads off with a Paddle-Song; and a Message is received from Abroad

CHAPTER 71 • They land upon the Island of Juam

CHAPTER 72 • A Book from the Chronicles of Mohi

CHAPTER 73 • Something more of the Prince

CHAPTER 74 • Advancing deeper into the Vale, they encounter Donjalolo

CHAPTER 75 • Time and Temples

CHAPTER 76 • A pleasant Place for a Lounge

CHAPTER 77 • The House of the Afternoon

CHAPTER 78 • Babbalanja solus

CHAPTER 79 • The Center of many Circumferences

CHAPTER 80 • Donjalolo in the Bosom of his Family

CHAPTER 81 • Wherein Babbalanja relates the Adventure of one Karkeke in the Land of Shades

CHAPTER 82 • How Donjalolo sent Agents to the surrounding Isles; with the Result

CHAPTER 83 • They visit the Tributary Islets

CHAPTER 84 • Taji sits down to Dinner with five-and-twenty Kings, and a royal Time they have

CHAPTER 85 • After Dinner

CHAPTER 86 • Of those Scamps the Plujii

CHAPTER 87 • Nora-Bamma

CHAPTER 88 • In a Calm, Hautia’s Heralds approach

CHAPTER 89 • Braid-Beard rehearses the Origin of the Isle of Rogues

CHAPTER 90 • Rare Sport at Ohonoo

CHAPTER 91 • Of King Uhia and his Subjects

CHAPTER 92 • The God Keevi and the Precipice of Mondo

CHAPTER 93 • Babbalanja steps in between Mohi and Yoomy; and Yoomy relates a Legend

CHAPTER 94 • Of that jolly old Lord, Borabolla; and that jolly Island of his, Mondoldo; and of the Fish-ponds, and the Hereafters of Fish

CHAPTER 95 • That jolly old Lord Borabolla laughs on both Sides of his Face

CHAPTER 96 • Samoa a Surgeon

CHAPTER 97 • Faith and Knowledge

CHAPTER 98 • The Tale of a Traveler

CHAPTER 99 • “Marnee Ora, Ora Marnee”

CHAPTER 100 • The Pursuer himself is pursued

CHAPTER 101 • The Iris

CHAPTER 102 • They depart from Mondoldo

CHAPTER 103 • As they sail

CHAPTER 104 • Wherein Babbalanja broaches a diabolical Theory, and, in his own Person, proves it

VOLUME TWO

CHAPTER 105 • Maramma

CHAPTER 106 • They land

CHAPTER 107 • They pass through the Woods

CHAPTER 108 • Hivohitee MDCCCXLVIII

CHAPTER 109 • They visit the great Morai

CHAPTER 110 • They discourse of the Gods of Mardi, and Braid-Beard tells of one Foni

CHAPTER 111 • They visit the Lake of Yammo

CHAPTER 112 • They meet the Pilgrims at the Temple of Oro

CHAPTER 113 • They discourse of Alma

CHAPTER 114 • Mohi tells of one Ravoo, and they land to visit Hevaneva, a flourishing Artisan

CHAPTER 115 • A Nursery-tale of Babbalanja’s

CHAPTER 116 • Landing to visit Hivohitee the Pontiff, they encounter an extraordinary old Hermit; with whom Yoomy has a confidential Interview, but learns little

CHAPTER 117 • Babbalanja endeavors to explain the Mystery

CHAPTER 118 • Taji receives Tidings and Omens

CHAPTER 119 • Dreams

CHAPTER 120 • Media and Babbalanja discourse

CHAPTER 121 • They regale themselves with their Pipes

CHAPTER 122 • They visit an extraordinary old Antiquary

CHAPTER 123 • They go down into the Catacombs

CHAPTER 124 • Babbalanja quotes from an antique Pagan; and earnestly presses it upon the Company, that what he recites is not his but another’s

CHAPTER 125 • They visit a wealthy old Pauper

CHAPTER 126 • Yoomy sings some odd Verses, and Babbalanja quotes from the old Authors right and left

CHAPTER 127 • What manner of Men the Tapparians were

CHAPTER 128 • Their adventures upon landing at Pimminee

CHAPTER 129 • A, I, and O

CHAPTER 130 • A Reception-day at Pimminee

CHAPTER 131 • Babbalanja falleth upon Pimminee Tooth and Nail

CHAPTER 132 • Babbalanja regales the Company with some Sandwiches

CHAPTER 133 • They still remain upon the Rock

CHAPTER 134 • Behind and Before

CHAPTER 135 • Babbalanja discourses in the Dark

CHAPTER 136 • My Lord Media summons Mohi to the Stand

CHAPTER 137 • Wherein Babbalanja and Yoomy embrace

CHAPTER 138 • Of the Isle of Diranda

CHAPTER 139 • They visit the Lords Piko and Hello

CHAPTER 140 • They attend the Games

CHAPTER 141 • Taji still hunted, and beckoned

CHAPTER 142 • They embark from Diranda

CHAPTER 143 • Wherein Babbalanja discourses of himself

CHAPTER 144 • Of the Sorcerers in the Isle of Minda

CHAPTER 145 • Chiefly of King Bello

CHAPTER 146 • Dominora and Vivenza

CHAPTER 147 • They land at Dominora

CHAPTER 148 • Through Dominora, they wander after Yillah

CHAPTER 149 • They behold King Bello’s State Canoe

CHAPTER 150 • Wherein Babbalanja bows thrice

CHAPTER 151 • Babbalanja philosophizes, and my Lord Media passes round the Calabashes

CHAPTER 152 • They sail round an Island without landing; and talk round a Subject without getting at it

CHAPTER 153 • They draw nigh to Porpheero; where they behold a terrific Eruption

CHAPTER 154 • Wherein King Media celebrates the Glories of Autumn; the Minstrel, the Promise of Spring

CHAPTER 155 • In which Azzageddi seems to use Babbalanja for a Mouth-piece

CHAPTER 156 • The charming Yoomy sings

CHAPTER 157 • They draw nigh unto Land

CHAPTER 158 • They visit the great central Temple of Vivenza

CHAPTER 159 • Wherein Babbalanja comments upon the Speech of Alanno

CHAPTER 160 • A Scene in the Land of Warwicks, or King-makers

CHAPTER 161 • They hearken unto a Voice from the Gods

CHAPTER 162 • They visit the extreme South of Vivenza

CHAPTER 163 • They converse of the Mollusca, Kings, Toad-stools, and other Matters

CHAPTER 164 • Wherein, that gallant Gentleman and Demi-god, King Media, Scepter in Hand, throws himself into the Breach

CHAPTER 165 • They round the stormy Cape of Capes

CHAPTER 166 • They encounter Gold-hunters

CHAPTER 167 • They seek through the Isles of Palms; and pass the Isles of Myrrh

CHAPTER 168 • Concentric, inward, with Mardi’s Reef, they leave their Wake around the World

CHAPTER 169 • Sailing on

CHAPTER 170 • A flight of Nightingales from Yoomy’s Mouth

CHAPTER 171 • They visit one Doxodox

CHAPTER 172 • King Media dreams

CHAPTER 173 • After a long Interval, by Night they are becalmed

CHAPTER 174 • They land at Hooloomooloo

CHAPTER 175 • A Book from the “Ponderings of old Bardianna”

CHAPTER 176 • Babbalanja starts to his Feet

CHAPTER 177 • At last, the last Mention is made of old Bardianna; and His last Will and Testament is recited at Length

CHAPTER 178 • A Death-cloud sweeps by them, as they sail

CHAPTER 179 • They visit the palmy King Abrazza

CHAPTER 180 • Some pleasant, shady Talk in the Groves, between my Lords Abrazza and Media, Babbalanja, Mohi, and Yoomy

CHAPTER 181 • They sup

CHAPTER 182 • They embark

CHAPTER 183 • Babbalanja at the Full of the Moon

CHAPTER 184 • Morning

CHAPTER 185 • L’Ultima sera

CHAPTER 186 • They sail from Night to Day

CHAPTER 187 • They land

CHAPTER 188 • Babbalanja relates to them a Vision

CHAPTER 189 • They depart from Serenia

CHAPTER 190 • They meet the Phantoms

CHAPTER 191 • They draw nigh to Flozella

CHAPTER 192 • They land

CHAPTER 193 • They enter the Bower of Hautia

CHAPTER 194 • Taji with Hautia

CHAPTER 195 • Mardi behind: an Ocean before