Two Years Before the Mast

Contents

 * Introductory Note
 * Preface
 * Chapter I • Departure
 * Chapter II • First Impressions—“Sail Ho!”
 * Chapter III • Ship’s Duties—Tropics
 * Chapter IV • A Rogue—Trouble on Board—“Land Ho!”—Pompero—Cape Horn
 * Chapter V • Cape Horn—A Visit
 * Chapter VI • Loss of a Man—Superstition
 * Chapter VII • Juan Fernandez—The Pacific
 * Chapter VIII • “Tarring Down”—Daily Life—“Going Aft”—California
 * Chapter IX • California—A South-Easter
 * Chapter X • A South-Easter—Passage up the Coast
 * Chapter XI • Passage up the Coast—Monterey
 * Chapter XII • Life at Monterey
 * Chapter XIII • Trading—A British Sailor
 * Chapter XIV • Santa Barbara—Hide-Droghing—Harbor Duties—Discontent—San Pedro
 * Chapter XV • A Flogging—A Night on Shore—The State of Things on Board—San Diego
 * Chapter XVI • Liberty-Day on Shore
 * Chapter XVII • San Diego—A Desertion—San Pedro Again—Beating up Coast
 * Chapter XVIII • Easter Sunday—“Sail Ho!”—Whales—San Juan—Romance of Hide-Droghing—San Diego Again
 * Chapter XIX • The Sandwich Islanders—Hide-curing—Wood-cutting—Rattle-snakes—New-comers
 * Chapter XX • Leisure—News from Home—“Burning the Water”
 * Chapter XXI • California and Its Inhabitants
 * Chapter XXII • Life on Shore—The Alert
 * Chapter XXIII • New Ship and Shipmates—My Watchmate
 * Chapter XXIV • San Diego again—A Descent—Hurried Departure—A New Shipmate
 * Chapter XXV • Rumors of War—A Spouter—Slipping for A South-Easter
 * Chapter XXVI • San Francisco—Monterey
 * Chapter XXVII • The Sunday Wash-up—On Shore—A Set-to—A Grandee—“Sail Ho!”—A Fandango
 * Chapter XXVIII • An Old Friend—A Victim—California Rangers—News from Home—Last Looks
 * Chapter XXIX • Loading for Home—A Surprise—Last of an Old Friend—The Last Hide—A Hard Case—Up Anchor, for Home!—Homeward Bound
 * Chapter XXX • Beginning the Long Return Voyage—A Scare
 * Chapter XXXI • Bad Prospects—First Touch of Cape Horn—Icebergs—Temperance Ships—Lying-Up—Ice—Difficulty on Board—Change of Course—Straits of Magellan—Cape Horn
 * Chapter XXXII • Ice Again—A Beautiful Afternoon—Cape Horn—“Land Ho!”—Heading For Home
 * Chapter XXXIII • Cracking on—Progress Homeward—A Pleasant Sunday—A Fine Sight-By-Play
 * Chapter XXXIV • Narrow Escapes—The Equator—Tropical Squalls—A Thunder Storm
 * Chapter XXXV • A Double Reef-top-sail Breeze—Scurvy—A Friend in Need—Preparing for Port—The Gulf Stream
 * Chapter XXXVI • Soundings—Sights from Home—Boston Harbor—Leaving the Ship
 * Concluding Chapter
 * Twenty Fours Later: Part I
 * Twenty Fours Later: Part II • The Bay of San Pedro—Pueblo De Los Angeles
 * Twenty Fours Later: Part III • We Leave For the Orient