Contents: Preface; Republican Longitude; Symmes' Hole; A Glorious Prospect; Behold! Now, a Nation; First Blood; A Fathom of Tapa; Samoa; Sydney; Ruffled Feathers; A New World; Among the Feejees; Affair at Malolo; Sandwich Islands; Secret Service; Oregon; Homeward Bound; Courts Martial; Friends of Science; The Muse; Democratic Science; Strange Notions; Interesting Flotsam; Splendid Contributions; Coda; Notes; Bibliographical note; Index.