| "They sailed on, in the moonlight." (See page [297]) | [Frontispiece] |
| "Sometimes he had to hold on to the fences" | [11] |
| "They saw all sorts of things going up the river" | [23] |
| "A great tree that was blown down" | [29] |
| "It floated, burning, for a few minutes" | [42] |
| "They swam in a funny sort of way" | [48] |
| "They had more porpoises on deck than you would have thought that they could possibly use" | [55] |
| "The surface of the sea seemed covered with them" | [65] |
| "They amused themselves for a long time" | [72] |
| "A school of fish suddenly leaped out of the water" | [78] |
| "The sailors were having a good time" | [81] |
| The Hour Glass | [90] |
| "Little Jacob liked to watch Captain Solomon" | [93] |
| "'Right there,' he said, 'you can see his back fin'" | [109] |
| The Shark | [114] |
| "'Yes, little lad,' he said. 'For you—if you want it'" | [129] |
| Christmas Island, 1st View, bearing N by E | [132] |
| Christmas Island, 2nd View, bearing SW | [133] |
| "Little Jacob watched it ... settle into the ocean" | [138] |
| The Lead | [149] |
| "He walked all around the great yard with the boys on his back" | [167] |
| "He was in the hold of the ship" | [177] |
| The Albatross | [188] |
| "They watched it the day after the next, too" | [192] |
| "Captain Solomon ... was watching the moon" | [199] |
| "The fire blazed up, higher and higher" | [207] |
| "At last he went to sleep" | [213] |
| The Lighthouse | [220] |
| "It was a beautiful farm" | [225] |
| "Took up his bundle and went out the wide gate" | [231] |
| "He started up, thinking of the farm at home" | [235] |
| The Bags of Money | [251] |
| "Ran to get another bucket" | [267] |
| "With guns and swords and cutlasses" | [272] |
| "That was a signal for the Industry to stop" | [277] |
| "It was a bigger flag than the first one" | [280] |
| "He took it up and looked, very carefully" | [315] |
| "The sloop was on her way" | [319] |
| "Many times had she been tied up at that wharf" | [329] |
| "At last the arm-chair was all done" | [338] |
| The Model of the Industry | [342] |