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Journey across the American Continent.--The Giant City of the West.--A Chinese Community.--Embarking for a Long Sea-voyage. --About Ocean Birds.--Navigating the Pacific.--Peculiarities of Life at Sea.--Curiosities of the Deep.--Ambergris.--City of Honolulu.--An Island Paradise.--Early Paganism at Hawaii. --Wholesale Human Sacrifices.--Royalty at the Race-course.-- Not a Kingly Monarch 1-25