Land--Abaco--Fleet--Hole in the Wall--A wrecker's hut--Bahama vampyres--Light houses--Conspiracy--Wall of Abaco--Natural Bridge--Cause--Night scene--Speak a packet ship--A floating city--Wrecker's lugger--Signal of distress--A Yankee lumber brig--Portuguese Man of War. 42
A calm--A breeze on the water--The land of flowers--Juan Ponce de Leon--The fountain of perpetual youth--An irremediable loss to single gentlemen--Gulf Stream--New-Providence--Cuba--Pan of Matanzas--Blue hills of Cuba--An armed cruiser--Cape St. Antonio --Pirates--Enter the Mexican Gulf--Mobile--A southern winter--A farewell to the North and a welcome to the South--The close of the voyage--Balize--Fleet--West Indiaman--Portuguese polacre--Land ho! --The land--Its formation--Pilot or "little brief authority"-- Light house--Revenue cutter--Newspapers--"The meeting of the waters"--A singular appearance--A morning off the Balize--The tow-boat 55
The Mississippi--The Whale--Description of tow-boats--A package--A threatened storm--A beautiful brigantine--Physiognomy of ships-- Richly furnished cabin--An obliging Captain--Desert the ship-- Getting under weigh--A chain of captives--Towing--New-Orleans--A mystery to be unraveled. 64
Louisiana--Arrival at New-Orleans--Land--Pilot stations--Pilots --Anecdote--Fort--Forests--Levée--Crevasses--Alarms--Accident-- Espionage--A Louisianian palace--Grounds--Sugar-house--Quarters --An African governess--Sugar-Cane--St. Mary--"English Turn"-- Cavalcade--Battle-ground--Music Sounds of the distant city--Land in New-Orleans--An _amateur_ sailor. 73
Bachelor's comforts--A valuable valet--Disembarked at the Levée --A fair Castilian--Canaille--The Crescent city--Reminiscence of school days--French cabarets--Cathedral--Exchange--Cornhill--A chain of light--A fracas--Gens d'Armes--An affair of honour-- Arrive at our hotel 87
Sensations on seeing a city for the first time--Capt. Kidd-- Boston--Fresh feelings--An appreciated luxury--A human medley --School for physiognomists--A morning scene in New-Orleans-- Canal street--Levée--French and English stores--Parisian and Louisianian pronunciation--Scenes in the market--Shipping--A disguised rover--Mississippi fleets--Ohio river arks--Slave laws. 96