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Library of Congress Catalog Card Number 28-22386


Contents

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1We Land Upon a New World[1]
2The Land of Colors and Perfumes[7]
3Thirst![13]
4Chee-Chee the Hero[21]
5On the Plateau[26]
6The Moon Lake[33]
7Tracks of a Giant[39]
8The Singing Trees[46]
9The Study of Plant Languages[53]
10The Magellan of the Moon[59]
11We Prepare to Circle the Moon[65]
12The Vanity Lilies[72]
13The Flower of Many Scents[79]
14Mirrors for Flowers[86]
15Making New Clothes[93]
16Monkey Memories of the Moon[100]
17We Hear of “The Council”[108]
18The President[117]
19The Moon Man[125]
20The Doctor and the Giant[135]
21How Otho Bludge Came to the Moon[143]
22How the Moon Folk Heard of Doctor Dolittle[151]
23The Man Who Made Himself a King[159]
24Doctor Dolittle Opens His Surgery on the Moon[167]
25Puddleby Once More[175]

ILLUSTRATIONS

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“Zip!--The spring was made”[5]
“By smelling he could tell if they were safe to eat”[8]
“The Doctor had brought a compass”[10]
“Jumping was extraordinarily easy”[12]
“It was different from any tree I have ever seen”[14]
“The doctor kept glancing up uneasily”[16]
“Polynesia soared into the air”[19]
“I remember Chee-Chee trickling something cool between my lips”[20]
“Some of the fruits were as big as a trunk”[22]
“ ‘I climbed a tree’ ”[24]
“We approached the bluff on whose brow the vegetation flourished”[27]
The Umbrella Tree[28]
“ ‘Yes,’ said she, ‘I was awake several times’ ”[30]
“ ‘You bet they were not!’ grunted Polynesia”[31]
“We used a long pole to punt with”[37]
“ ‘What do you think, Doctor?’ he stammered”[40]
“An enormous footprint”[42]
“There was more movement in the limbs of the trees”[44]
“It was a sort of basin”[47]
“Spellbound we gazed up at them”[50]
“For quite a long while he sat watching certain shrubs”[51]
“Seeing a giant shadow disappear into the gloom”[55]
“He seemed to have brought everything he could need”[57]
“The faithful monkey would come to us every three hours with his strange vegetables”[60]
“It was natural to spring a step that measured six or seven feet”[62]
“We rigged up weather-vanes”[63]
“Mostly they were on bare knolls”[66]
“ ‘You mean you think it was he who sent the signals?’ ”[68]
“ ‘I don’t know, Stubbins,’ said he, frowning”[70]
“We always took care to leave landmarks behind us”[73]
“Certainly the plant life became more elaborate and lively”[75]
“The flowers would be about eighteen inches across”[77]
“Chee-Chee just fainted away at the first sample”[80]
“ ‘Are you ready, Stubbins?’ ”[82]
“He struck a light”[84]
“He passed his hand all around it”[87]
“He held them before the lilies”[89]
“These we rigged up on sticks”[91]
“ ‘Tommy, you seem to be getting enormously tall’ ”[94]
“His height had increased some three inches”[96]
“ ‘We look like a family of Robinson Crusoes’ ”[98]
“ ‘Let me think,’ said Chee-Chee”[101]
“Leaning back munching a piece of yellow yam”[103]
“A terrible explosion followed”[106]
“It was a rocky gulch”[109]
“There was no doubt that they were on the watch”[112]
“Proceeded with his conversation with the vines”[113]
“A species of big lizard overran the Moon”[115]
“where the globe of the Earth glowed dimly”[118]
“Every single seed was carefully dug up by long-billed birds”[121]
“Still more birds left the concealment of the creepers”[123]
“With a very serious look on her old face”[126]
“Others were unbelievably large”[128]
“It was human!”[131]
“ ‘Look!--the right wrist--look!’ ”[133]
“ ‘Stubbins!--I say, Stubbins!’ ”[137]
“ ‘Very poor hospitality, I call it’ ”[139]
“I watched Chee-Chee’s head nodding sleepily”[141]
“ ‘I lived on roots’ ”[147]
“ ‘The piece fell into one of our lakes’ ”[149]
“The bird was introduced to the Doctor”[152]
“ ‘I had the birds bring me reports of your movements’ ”[155]
“ ‘I set the pile off with a live ember’ ”[157]
“ ‘I could whistle short conversations’ ”[161]
“This history had been carved in pictures on the face of a rock”[163]
“ ‘But grasshoppers!’ ”[165]
“Grasshoppers with crude bandages on their gawky joints”[168]
“Then he lectured his big friend”[170]
“ ‘Watch out, Tommy!’ ”[172]
“ ‘Don’t worry, Tommy, he’ll come back’ ”[185]

THE FIRST CHAPTER
We Land Upon a New World