Produced by Jonathan Ingram, Marius Borror and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net Transcriber's note: A few typographical errors have been corrected: they are underlined in the HTML version. Hyphenation inconsistencies were left unchanged. THE WORKS OF ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON SWANSTON EDITION VOLUME II _Of this SWANSTON EDITION in Twenty-five Volumes of the Works of ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Two Thousand and Sixty Copies have been printed, of which only Two Thousand Copies are for sale._ _This is No. ......_ [Illustration: THE SILVERADO SQUATTERS (_From a Drawing by Mr. J. D. Strong_)] THE WORKS OF ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON VOLUME TWO LONDON : PUBLISHED BY CHATTO AND WINDUS : IN ASSOCIATION WITH CASSELL AND COMPANY LIMITED : WILLIAM HEINEMANN : AND LONGMANS GREEN AND COMPANY MDCCCCXI ALL RIGHTS RESERVED CONTENTS THE AMATEUR EMIGRANT PART I.--FROM THE CLYDE TO SANDY HOOK PAGE THE SECOND CABIN 7 EARLY IMPRESSIONS 15 STEERAGE SCENES 24 STEERAGE TYPES 32 THE SICK MAN 43 THE STOWAWAYS 53 PERSONAL EXPERIENCE AND REVIEW 66 NEW YORK 77 PART II.--ACROSS THE PLAINS NOTES BY THE WAY TO COUNCIL BLUFFS 93 THE EMIGRANT TRAIN 107 THE PLAINS OF NEBRASKA 115 THE DESERT OF WYOMING 119 FELLOW PASSENGERS 124 DESPISED RACES 129 TO THE GOLDEN GATES 133 THE OLD AND NEW PACIFIC CAPITALS I. MONTEREY 141 II. SAN FRANCISCO 159 THE SILVERADO SQUATTERS