MY VOYAGE FROM NEW ORLEANS TO BOSTON. 1833 16 Four years old and the sole passenger--Sailors teach me to swear--My aunt shocked at my depravity.
MY BOYHOOD ON A FARM. 1833-1843 21 My grandfather a noted Methodist preacher--My first money earned.
SCHOOLDAYS AND A START IN LIFE. 1840-1844 35 Leader of the school--George Ripley my school-teacher--Emerson comes to our village to lecture--Boston visited.
EARLY NEW ENGLAND METHODISM. 45 How I was reared religiously--Ideas of right and wrong--Things outgrown.
IN A SHIPPING HOUSE IN BOSTON. 1844-1850 52 A place with my uncle--Progress rapidly made--I sell Emerson a ticket for Liverpool--I engage Rufus Choate and Daniel Webster as our lawyers--My first speculation--Building fast ships.
A VACATION TOUR. 1850 79 In Washington I meet Webster, Clay, and President Taylor--A letter with their autographs that served me well.
A PARTNER IN THE LIVERPOOL HOUSE. 1850-1852 90 In Scotland Lord John Russell receives me, and I meet Lady Russell--Reform in the shipping business--Money we made--The Duke of Wellington--I visit Chatsworth.
MY COURTSHIP AND MARRIAGE--RETURN TO LIVERPOOL. 1850-1852 109 How I first met my wife--Engaged to marry her within forty-eight hours--Governors in my charge--Our wedding and the commotion that preceded it--Phrenology.
BUSINESS SUCCESS IN AUSTRALIA. 1853-1855 126 A fine income at twenty-one--Melbourne in those days--American ideas introduced--Accused of stealing $2,000,000.
THE GOLD-FEVER IN NEW SOUTH WALES AND TASMANIA. 1853-1855 141 Lucky and unlucky miners--David D. Porter--Sydney in those days--Free immigrants--Sir John Franklin.
OTHER AUSTRALIAN INCIDENTS--A REVOLUTION 156 Proposed as a candidate for President--Riotous times--Curious incidents in business.
A VOYAGE TO CHINA. 1855 171 Failure of ambitious plans--My first love of flowers--A remarkable Dutch colony.
IN CHINESE CITIES. 1855-1856 182 Hetty Green's husband in Hongkong with me--Pirates and the slave trade--Honesty of the Chinaman--Eating rats-- Pidgin-English--Li Hung Chang on board.
TO INDIA AND THE HOLY LAND. 1856 204 New ideas in religion--My early Methodism recalled--Where Christ was born.
IN THE CRIMEA. 1856 215 Plans in speculation that came to naught--The war, and what I learned of it.