The Separation.--Deception Isle.--The Gulf of Penas.--Island of Chiloe.--Juan Fernandez.--Alexander Selkirk.--The Ladies of Lima.--The Peruvians.--Columbia.--Catching Wild Fowl.--The Two Oceans.--A Singular Funeral.--Magellan.--Guatemala.--Ladies Smoking.--Christian Indians.--California.--San Francisco.--Nootka Sound.--Story of Boone and the Bear.--Cleaveland and the Infant. --United States' Navy.--Cannibals.--Kamschatka.--Polynesia.--The Sandwich Islands.--Captain Cook.--Contest.--Adventure of Kapiolani.--A Delightful Anecdote.--Spanish Missionaries.--Philippine Islands.--The Pelew Islands.--Birds of Paradise.--The Friendly Islands.--Otaheite.--The Society Islanders.--Pitcairn's Islands. --Shocking Barbarity.--Nobb's Letter.--Marquesas.--The Low Islands.--New Caledonia.--New Zealand.--The Bay of Islands.--Captain Cook's Story.--A Curious Idea.--Aranghie.--Cannibalism.--New Holland.--Story of Mr. Meredith.--Australian Barbarism.--Australian Lakes.--Van Diemen's Land.--Coral Reefs.--Story of Kemba
Packing up.--Letter from Mr. Stanley.--Mr. Stanley.--Celebes.--Dress of the Alfoors.--Curious Hospitality.--Java.--Whimsical Superstition. --Productions of Java.--Sumatra.--Water Spouts.--Burman Despotism. --The White Elephant.--Sir James Brooke.--Borneo.--Isle of Bourbon.--Isle of France.--Madagascar.--The Four Spirits.--The Missionaries.--Horrible Custom.--The Pirates' Retreat.--Malagassy Fable.--Kerguelen's Land.--Isle of Desolation.--Story of a Sailor.--Morocco.--A Moorish Beauty.--Algiers.--Egypt.--Abyssinia. --Abyssinian Customs.--Religion.--African Coast.--Seychelle Isles.--Mozambique.--Smoking the Hubble-Bubble.--Caffraria.--Story of the Little Caffre.--Algoa Bay.--Graham's Town.--Cape of Good Hope.--Cape Town.--Constantia.--The Boschmen.--A Transformation. --Dressing in Skins.--The Slave Trade.--Fish Bay.--St. Helena. --Kabenda.--Black Jews.--Ferdinand Po.--The Ape and the Oven. --The Slave-Coast.--Dahomey.--Ashantee.--King Opocco.--A Singular Belief.--The Ashantee Wife.--Liberia.--A Bowchee Mother.--Sierra Leone.--The Lakes of Africa.--Bornou.--The Sultan of Bornou.--African Wedding.--The Deluge.--The Telescope.--The End
It is not my purpose to detain you with a long preface, because I am aware that long prefaces are seldom read; but I wish to inform you that I have written this book, in the humble hope of being useful to those in whom I am so anxiously interested. I am myself happy in acknowledging the endearing appellation of "Mother," and I love _all_ children, and regard them as priceless treasures, entrusted to the care and guidance of parents and teachers; with whom it rests in a great measure to render them blessings to their fellow-creatures, and happy themselves, or contrariwise.