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Title: Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. I (of 2)

Author: Herman Melville

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MARDI: AND A VOYAGE THITHER

BY HERMAN MELVILLE

IN TWO VOLUMES

VOL. I

1864

DEDICATED TO My Brother, ALLAN MELVILLE.

PREFACE

Not long ago, having published two narratives of voyages in the
Pacific, which, in many quarters, were received with incredulity,
the thought occurred to me, of indeed writing a romance of Polynesian
adventure, and publishing it as such; to see whether, the fiction
might not, possibly, be received for a verity: in some degree the
reverse of my previous experience.

This thought was the germ of others, which have resulted in Mardi.
New York, January, 1849.

MARDI.

CONTENTS
VOL. I

CHAPTER
1. Foot in Stirrup
2. A Calm
3. A King for a Comrade
4. A Chat in the Clouds
5. Seats secured and Portmanteaus packed
6. Eight Bells
7. A Pause
8. They push off, Velis et Bemis
9. The Watery World is all before Them
10. They arrange their Canopies and Lounges, and try to make Things
comfortable
11. Jarl afflicted with the Lockjaw
12. More about being in an open Boat
13. Of the Chondropterygii, and other uncouth Hordes infesting the
South Seas
14. Jarl's Misgivings
15. A Stitch in time saves Nine
16. They are Becalmed
17. In high Spirits they push on for the Terra Incognita
18. My Lord Shark and his Pages
19. Who goes there?
20. Noises and Portents
21. Man ho!
22. What befel the Brigantine at the Pearl Shell Islands
23. Sailing from the Island they pillage the Cabin
24. Dedicated to the College of Physicians and Surgeons
25. Peril a Peace-maker
26. Containing a Pennyweight of Philosophy
27. In which the past History of the Parki is concluded
28. Suspicions laid, and something about the Calmuc
29. What they lighted upon in further searching the Craft, and the
Resolution th