CONTENTS.
| CHAPTER I. | |
| PAGE. | |
| From Peck Slip to Nantucket Bar | [1] |
| CHAPTER II. | |
| In and Out over the Bar | [12] |
| CHAPTER III. | |
| From the Bar Round Great Point | [24] |
| CHAPTER IV. | |
| Fairly at Sea.—The First Lookout.—Introduction | [38] |
| CHAPTER V. | |
| The Western Islands.—"Yarns" and Anecdotes | [50] |
| CHAPTER VI. | |
| The First Whale | [62] |
| CHAPTER VII. | |
| "Cutting In" | [73] |
| CHAPTER VIII. | |
| Boiling.—Cutting the Line.—Dutch Courage.—"Man Overboard" | [85] |
| CHAPTER IX. | |
| "Gamming" with a "Homeward-Bounder" | [98] |
| CHAPTER X. | |
| Whaling Near the Falklands.—Death of Mr. Johnson | [112] |
| CHAPTER XI. | |
| Promotion.—"Cooper's Novels."—The Mate Moralizes.—Cape Horn | [125] |
| CHAPTER XII. | |
| Fishing at Juan Fernandez.—Fight with an Ugly Whale | [139] |
| CHAPTER XIII. | |
| Talcahuana | [153] |
| CHAPTER XIV. | |
| The Bill-Fish.—The Marquesas.—A Prisoner among the Savages | [167] |
| CHAPTER XV. | |
| Escape from the Savages.—Recovery of the Boat.—Magical Effects of Lynch Law | [181] |
| CHAPTER XVI. | |
| The Cooper "Romances".—Incidents.—Byron's Island | [197] |
| CHAPTER XVII. | |
| Kingsmill's Group.—Singular Whaling Incident.—Hard and Fast.—A Perilous Position | [211] |
| CHAPTER XVIII. | |
| Off the Rocks Again.—A Bad Leap.—Anecdotes.—The Run to the Caroline islands | [225] |
| CHAPTER XIX. | |
| Strong's Island | [238] |
| CHAPTER XX. | |
| On Japan.—Ormsbee's Peak.—Whaling Incidents.—A Yankee Trick | [253] |
| CHAPTER XXI. | |
| Radack Chain.—Watering at Ocean Island.—Incidents on the Run to Sydney, N. S. W. | [267] |
| CHAPTER XXII. | |
| Sydney.—Up Anchor for Home.—"Galway Mike." | [280] |
| CHAPTER XXIII. | |
| Homeward.—The Episode of Galway Mike.—Cape Horn.—The Last Whale | [294] |
| CHAPTER XXIV. | |
| Homeward. The Whale Recognized as an Old Acquaintance.—Incidents of the Run Home.—Nantucket Again | [307] |
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