Volume 2 — 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

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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

The Silverado Squatters 173

In the Valley:

I. Calistoga 179

II. The Petrified Forest 184

III. Napa Wine 188

IV. The Scot Abroad 194

With the Children of Israel:

I. To Introduce Mr. Kelmar 201

II. First Impressions of Silverado 205

III. The Return 215

The Act of Squatting 221

The Hunter’s Family 230

The Sea-Fogs 239

The Toll House 245

A Starry Drive 250

Episodes in the Story of a Mine 254

Toils and Pleasures 264

“VIRGINIBUS PUERISQUE” AND OTHER PAPERS

I. “Virginibus Puerisque”:

I. 281

II. 292

III. On Falling in Love 302

IV. Truth of Intercourse 311

II. Crabbed Age and Youth 321

III. An Apology for Idlers 334

IV. Ordered South 345

V. Æs Triplex 358

VI. El Dorado 368

VII. The English Admirals 372

VIII. Some Portraits by Raeburn 385

IX. Child’s Play 394

X. Walking Tours 406

XI. Pan’s Pipes 415

XII. A Plea for Gas Lamps 420