CONTENTS. xi 



CHAPTER X. 



A VISIT TO SOME STRANGE PLACES. 



PAOK 



Tropical thunderstorms — A "record" day's fishing — Cetacean 

 frivolities — Mistah Jones morahzes — A snug harbour — 

 Wooding and watering — Catching a turtle — Catching a 

 "Tartar" — A violent death — A crooked jaw— Aldabra 

 Island — Primeval inhabitants — A strange steed — "Pirate" 

 birds — Good eggs — Green cocoa-nuts — More turtle — A 

 Bchool of " kogia " ..... ^ , 103 



CHAPTER XI. 



KOUND THE COCOS AMD SEYCHELLES. 



We encounter a " cyclone " — A tremendous gust — A foundering 

 ship — To anchor for repairs — The Cocos— Repairing damages 

 — Around the Seychelles — A " milk " sea — ^A derelict prahu 

 — A ghastly freight — A stagnant sea ... . 128 



CHAPTER XII. 



WHICH TREATS OF THE KRAKEN. 



" Eyes and no eyes " at sea — Of big mollusca — The origin of sea- 

 serpent stories — Rediscovery of the " Kraken " — A conflict 

 of monsters — "The insatiable nightmares of the sea" — 

 Spermaceti running to waste — The East Indian maze . 139 



CHAPTER XIII. 



OFF TO THE JAPAN GROUNDS. 



A whale oflF Hong Kong — The skipper and his " bomb-gun " — 

 Injury to the captain — Unwelcome visitors — The heathen 

 Chinee — We get safe ofi" — " Death of Portagee Jim " — The 

 Funeral — The Coast of Japan — Port Lloyd — Meeting of 

 whale-ships 149 



CHAPTER XIV. 



LIBERTT DAY — ^AND AFTER. 



Liberty day — ^I foregather with a " beach-comber " — A big fight 

 —Goliath on the war-path — A court-martial — Wholesale 



