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CHAPTER I.

The Party — Across America to Vancouver — On Board the Wai-rimo — 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. ... 25

CHAPTER II.

Change of Costume — Fish, Snake, and Boomerang Stories — Tests of Memory — A Brahmin Expert — General Grant's Memory — A Delicately Improper Tale 35

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 — Hono- lulu, Past and Present — The Leper Colony 48

CHAPTER IV.

Leaving Honolulu — Flying-flsl^ — Approaching the Equator — Why the Ship Went Slow — The Front Yard of the Ship — Crossing the Equator — Horse Billiards or Shovel Board — The Waterbury Watch — Washing Decks — Ship Paintei-s — The Great Meridian — The Loss of a Day — A Babe without a Birthday 65

CHAPTER V.

A Lesson in Pronunciation — Reverence for Robert Burns — The Southern Cross — Troublesome Constellations — Victoria for a Name — Islands on the Map — Alofa and Fortuna — Recruit- ing for the Queensland Plantations — Captain Warren's Note- Book — Recruiting not thoroughly Popular 77