[From an 1869—1st Edition]
Chapter I. Popular
Talk of the Excursion—Programme of the Trip—Duly
Ticketed for the Excursion—Defection of
the Celebrities
Chapter ii.
Grand Preparations—An Imposing Dignitary—The
European Exodus
—Mr. Blucher’s Opinion—Stateroom
No. 10—The Assembling of the Clans
—At Sea at Last
Chapter iii.
“Averaging” the Passengers—Far,
far at Sea.—Tribulation among the
Patriarchs—Seeking Amusement under Difficulties—Five
Captains in the
Ship
Chapter iv.
The Pilgrims Becoming Domesticated—Pilgrim
Life at Sea
—“Horse-Billiards”—The
“Synagogue”—The Writing School—Jack’s
“Journal”
—The “Q. C. Club”—The
Magic Lantern—State Ball on Deck—Mock
Trials
—Charades—Pilgrim Solemnity—Slow
Music—The Executive Officer Delivers
an Opinion
Chapter V.
Summer in Mid-Atlantic—An Eccentric Moon—Mr.
Blucher Loses Confidence
—The Mystery of “Ship Time”—The
Denizens of the Deep—“Land Hoh”
—The First Landing on a Foreign Shore—Sensation
among the Natives
—Something about the Azores Islands—Blucher’s
Disastrous Dinner
—The Happy Result
Chapter vi.
Solid Information—A Fossil Community—Curious
Ways and Customs
—JesuitHumbuggery—Fantastic
Pilgrimizing—Origin of the Russ Pavement
—Squaring Accounts with the Fossils—At
Sea Again
Chaptervii.
A Tempest at Night—Spain and Africa on Exhibition—Greeting a Majestic
Stranger—The Pillars of Hercules—The Rock of Gibraltar—Tiresome
Repetition—“The Queen’s Chair”—Serenity Conquered—Curiosities of
the Secret Caverns—Personnel of Gibraltar—Some Odd Characters
—A Private Frolic in Africa—Bearding a Moorish Garrison (without loss
of life)—Vanity Rebuked—Disembarking in the Empire of Morocco
Chapter VIII.
The Ancient City of Tangier, Morocco—Strange
Sights—A Cradle of
Antiquity—We become Wealthy—How
they Rob the Mail in Africa—The Danger
of being Opulent in Morocco
Chapter ix.
A Pilgrim—in Deadly Peril—How
they Mended the Clock—Moorish
Punishments for Crime—Marriage Customs—Looking
Several ways for Sunday
—Shrewd, Practice of Mohammedan Pilgrims—Reverence
for Cats—Bliss of
being a Consul-General
Chapter X. Fourth
of July at Sea—Mediterranean Sunset—The
“Oracle” is Delivered of an Opinion—Celebration
Ceremonies—The Captain’s Speech—France
in Sight—The Ignorant Native—In
Marseilles—Another Blunder—Lost
in the Great City—Found Again—A
Frenchy Scene
Chapter xi.
Getting used to it—No Soap—Bill
of Fare, Table d’hote—“An American
Sir”—A Curious Discovery—The
“Pilgrim” Bird—Strange Companionship
—A Grave of the Living—A Long
Captivity—Some of Dumas’ Heroes—Dungeon
of the Famous “Iron Mask.”
