Contents

SOME CHINESE GHOSTS

CHITA: A MEMORY OF LAST ISLAND

TWO YEARS IN THE FRENCH WEST INDIES

YOUMA: THE STORY OF A WEST-INDIAN SLAVE

SELECTED JOURNALISM

Cincinnati, 1875–1877

Some Strange Experience: The Reminiscences of a Ghost-Seer

Levee Life

Black Varieties: The Minstrels of the Row

Gibbeted: Execution of a Youthful Murderer

Dolly: An Idyl of the Levee

Frost Fancies

New Orleans, 1877–1886

At the Gate of the Tropics

New Orleans in Wet Weather

New Orleans (Ruffians in New Orleans—The Sicilian Vendetta—Some Curiosities of Creole Grammar—A Weird Creole Love-song—Voudooism—The Grace of the Serpent)

New Orleans (The Curious Nomenclature of New Orleans Streets. Some Little Creole Love Songs)

The Glamour of New Orleans

The City of Dreams

“Why Crabs Are Boiled Alive”

Gottschalk

The Tale of a Fan

The Death of Marie Laveau

Voices of Dawn

A River Reverie

New Orleans in Carnival Garb

Saint Maló, A Lacustrine Village in Louisiana

The Roar of a Great City

The Creole Patois

The New Orleans Exposition

The Last of the Voudoos

The Last of the New Orleans Fencing-Masters

LETTERS

Henry Edward Krehbiel (New Orleans, 1877)

Henry Edward Krehbiel (New Orleans, 1878)

Henry Edward Krehbiel (New Orleans, 1878)

Henry Edward Krehbiel (New Orleans, 1880)

Henry Edward Krehbiel (New Orleans, 1880)

Henry Edward Krehbiel (New Orleans, February 1881)

Henry Edward Krehbiel (New Orleans, 1881)

Page Baker (Grand Isle, 1884)

Henry Edward Krehbiel (Martinique, 1887)

George M. Gould (Martinique, June 1888)

George M. Gould (Martinique, August 1888)

Chronology

Note on the Texts

Notes