MARDI:
AND A VOYAGE THITHER

By Herman Melville

In Two Volumes

Vol. I

1864


DEDICATED
TO
My Brother,
ALLAN MELVILLE.

CONTENTS

[PREFACE]
[MARDI]
[CHAPTER I — Foot in Stirrup]
[CHAPTER II — A Calm]
[CHAPTER III — A King for a Comrade]
[CHAPTER IV — A Chat in the Clouds]
[CHAPTER V — Seats secured and Portmanteaus packed]
[CHAPTER VI — Eight Bells]
[CHAPTER VII — A Pause]
[CHAPTER VIII — They push off, Velis et Remis]
[CHAPTER IX — The Watery World is all before Them]
[CHAPTER X — They arrange their Canopies And Lounges, and try to Make Things comfortable]
[CHAPTER XI — Jarl afflicted with the Lockjaw]
[CHAPTER XII — More about being in an open Boat]
[CHAPTER XIII — Of the Chondropterygii, and other uncouth Hordes infesting the South Seas]
[CHAPTER XIV — Jarl’s Misgivings]
[CHAPTER XV — A Stitch in time saves Nine]
[CHAPTER XVI — They are Becalmed]
[CHAPTER XVII — In high Spirits, they push on for the Terra Incognita]
[CHAPTER XVIII — My Lord Shark and his Pages]
[CHAPTER XIX — Who goes there?]
[CHAPTER XX — Noises and Portents]
[CHAPTER XXI — Man ho!]
[CHAPTER XXII — What befel the Brigantine at the Pearl Shell Islands]
[CHAPTER XXIII — Sailing from the Island they pillage the Cabin]
[CHAPTER XXIV — Dedicated to the College of Physicians and Surgeons]
[CHAPTER XXV — Peril A Peace-Maker]
[CHAPTER XXVI — Containing a Pennyweight Of Philosophy]
[CHAPTER XXVII — In which the past History of the Parki is concluded]
[CHAPTER XXVIII — Suspicions laid, and something about the Calmuc]
[CHAPTER XXIX — What they lighted upon in further searching the Craft, and the Resolution they came to]
[CHAPTER XXX — Hints for a full length of Samoa]
[CHAPTER XXXI — Rovings Alow and Aloft]
[CHAPTER XXXII — Xiphius Platypterus]
[CHAPTER XXXIII — Otard]
[CHAPTER XXXIV — How they steered on their Way]
[CHAPTER XXXV — Ah, Annatoo!]
[CHAPTER XXXVI — The Parki gives up the Ghost]
[CHAPTER XXXVII — Once more they take to the Chamois]
[CHAPTER XXXVIII — The Sea on Fire]
[CHAPTER XXXIX — They fall in with Strangers]
[CHAPTER XL — Sire and Sons]
[CHAPTER XLI — A Fray]
[CHAPTER XLII — Remorse]
[CHAPTER XLIII — The Tent entered]
[CHAPTER XLIV — Away!]
[CHAPTER XLV — Reminiscences]
[CHAPTER XLVI — The Chamois with a roving Commission]
[CHAPTER XLVII — Yillah, Jarl, and Samoa]
[CHAPTER XLVIII — Something under the Surface]
[CHAPTER XLIX — Yillah]
[CHAPTER L — Yillah in Ardair]
[CHAPTER LI — The Dream begins to fade]
[CHAPTER LII — World ho!]
[CHAPTER LIII — The Chamois Ashore]
[CHAPTER LIV — A Gentleman from the Sun]
[CHAPTER LV — Tiffin in a Temple]
[CHAPTER LVI — King Media a Host]
[CHAPTER LVII — Taji takes Counsel with himself]
[CHAPTER LVIII — Mardi by Night and Yillah by Day]
[CHAPTER LIX — Their Morning Meal]
[CHAPTER LX — Belshazzar on the Bench]
[CHAPTER LXI — An Incognito]
[CHAPTER LXII — Taji retires from the World]
[CHAPTER LXIII — Odo and its Lord]
[CHAPTER LXIV — Yillah a Phantom]
[CHAPTER LXV — Taji makes three Acquaintances]
[CHAPTER LXVI — With a fair Wind, at Sunrise they sail]
[CHAPTER LXVII — Little King Peepi]
[CHAPTER LXVIII — How Teeth were regarded in Valapee]
[CHAPTER LXIX — The Company discourse, and Braid-Beard rehearses a Legend]
[CHAPTER LXX — The Minstrel leads off with a Paddle-Song; and a Message is received from Abroad]
[CHAPTER LXXI — They land upon the Island of Juam]
[CHAPTER LXXII — A Book from the Chronicles of Mohi]
[CHAPTER LXXIII — Something more of the Prince]
[CHAPTER LXXIV — Advancing deeper into the Vale, they encounter Donjalolo]
[CHAPTER LXXV — Time and Temples]
[CHAPTER LXXVI — A pleasant Place for a Lounge]
[CHAPTER LXXVII — The House of the Afternoon]
[CHAPTER LXXVIII — Babbalanja solus]
[CHAPTER LXXIX — The Center of many Circumferences]
[CHAPTER LXXX — Donjalolo in the Bosom of his Family]
[CHAPTER LXXXI — Wherein Babbalanja relates the Adventure of one Karkeke in the Land of Shades]
[CHAPTER LXXXII — How Donjalolo, sent Agents to the Surrounding Isles; with the Result]
[CHAPTER LXXXIII — They visit the Tributary Islets]
[CHAPTER LXXXIV — Taji sits down to Dinner with five-And-Twenty Kings, and a royal Time they have]
[CHAPTER LXXXV — After Dinner]
[CHAPTER LXXXVI — Of those Scamps the Plujii]
[CHAPTER LXXXVII — Nora-Bamma]
[CHAPTER LXXXVIII — In a Calm, Hautia’s Heralds approach]
[CHAPTER LXXXIX — Braid-Beard rehearses the Origin of the Isle of Rogues]
[CHAPTER XC — Rare Sport at Ohonoo]
[CHAPTER XCI — Of King Uhia and his Subjects]
[CHAPTER XCII — The God Keevi and the Precipice of Mondo]
[CHAPTER XCIII — Babbalanja steps in between Mohi and Yoomy; and Yoomy relates a Legend]
[CHAPTER XCIV — Of that jolly old Lord, Borabolla; and that jolly Island of his, Mondoldo; and of the Fish-Ponds, and the Hereafters of Fish]
[CHAPTER XCV — That jolly old Lord Borabolla laughs on both Sides of his Face]
[CHAPTER XCVI — Samoa a Surgeon]
[CHAPTER XCVII — Faith and Knowledge]
[CHAPTER XCVIII — The Tale of a Traveler]
[CHAPTER XCIX — “Marnee Ora, Ora Marnee”]
[CHAPTER C — The Pursuer himself is pursued]
[CHAPTER CI — The Iris]
[CHAPTER CII — They depart from Mondoldo]
[CHAPTER CIII — As they sail]
[CHAPTER CIV — Wherein Babbalanja broaches a diabolical Theory, and in his Own Person proves it]

PREFACE