D. BOGUE, 86, FLEET STREET. CONTENTS. CHAPTER I. THE SEA VOYAGE. The embarkation--First taste of salt water--Sea-sickness--Intestine dissensions--The passengers--Alsatians--The Oldenburghers and their wooden shoes--A calm--Fate of the wooden shoes--A child overboard--Capture of a shark--A storm--Effects of the storm--Death of a passenger--The storm abates--Complaints against the committee--The remonstrance--The committee's vindication--Indolence of the Oldenburghers--A stratagem--Approach to the American coast--"Ashore! Ashore!"--Negro robbers--Termination of the voyage p. 1-43 CHAPTER II. A WEEK IN NEW YORK. The "Switzer's home"--Wonders of New York--"Five hundred journeymen wanted!"--A civil countryman--The future settlement--An adventure on the Quay--"The Switzer's home"--A night's "rest"--The "striped pig"--A natural curiosity maker--The "striped pig" explained--Yankee dodges--Mr. Becher's address--The promised land--The purchase completed--A Methodist ranter--The tailor's adventure--Letters of introduction--Suspicions against Dr. Normann--Dr. Normann's "smartness"--The separation 44-83 CHAPTER III. THE PILGRIMAGE TO THE SETTLEMENT. Scenery of the Hudson--The haunted island--A night on the Hudson--Utica--A "railway hotel" repast--The Erie canal--A name for the future town--The canal bridges--The first death--The Falls of Niagara--American fences--Abandonment of luggage--Difficulties in the treasury--The subscription--Cincinnati--Adventures in Cincinnati--An old settler--The Negro barber--German-American politics--Political spouting--Daybreak on the Ohio--Normann's love suit--The Cincinnati "Museum"--First impressions of the Mississippi--Arrival at the Big Halchee--The home in the wilderness 84-133 CHAPTER IV. THE SETTLEMENT. A night in a shanty--The watchman's horn--The woodsman's hut--Death in the woods--The forest burial-place--A clearing on the Mississippi--A desolate scene--The "river" and the "town"--The floods of the Mississippi--A journey in the woods--Unpleasant forebodings--A town in the backwoods--A "camp out"--The "dead clearing"--The "lot" identified--The disappointment--Forest lodgings--Use of the axe--Deer-stalking--Perils of hunting in the backwoods--Progress of settlement--A plot and a counter-plot 131-174 CHAPTER V. EXCURSIONS HITHER AND THITHER. Plans for the future--How to "get along" in America--Philadelphia--The Quaker City--Points of the compass--Letters of introduction--Steam-voyage to New Orleans--Approach to the city--"Yellow Jack"--A New Orleans school--American school-system--Pleasant anticipations 175-194 CHAPTER VI. THE SETTLEMENT--AN UNEXPECTED VISIT. A "herd" of wild turkeys--Turkey-buzzards--A startling apparition--Dr. Normann--The doctor's accomplice--The reconciliation--Sinister speculations--Plans for abduction--"Bear-tracking" 195-210 CHAPTER VII. THE FLIGHT.