| Summary: | An account of the cruise of the schooner Chance. 1928-1929, from New London through the South seas to Sydney Chapter I. An encounter that almost caused the cruise to be stillborn -- The vicissitudes of buying a ship -- Preparations and preparations -- A bad start and a glorious run -- Bermuda -- Chapter II. The doldrums -- A gigantic waterspout -- Missing, bird rock light -- A hurricane? -- Jamaica -- 205 miles in twenty-four hours -- Calm -- Chapter III. The canal -- Adventures in Panama -- Operations and delay -- John Haig -- The "jumping off" -- Perlas Islands -- The Southern Cross appears -- Crossing the line -- Chapter IV. Galápagos -- A merry shopkeeper and a musical major -- Sharks, sea lions, turtles -- A battle with a bull -- A "woman" joins the ship -- Making ready for a long sleep -- Chapter V. Three thousand miles of naked ocean -- Cockroaches and porpoises -- An intricate sail plan -- Night watches -- The awakening -- Chapter VI. The Marquesas -- A scientific priest -- The vale of Typee -- Chief Hakatu -- Christmas at 122 [degrees] Fahrenheit -- The Tuomotus and pearls -- The first hula dancers -- Chapter VII. Tahiti on New Year's Eve -- A native feast -- Lake Vahere and the Keane family -- An uproarious bus ride -- Changes in the crew -- A riotous farewell -- Chapter VIII. The keel of the Chance feels sand -- The Potii Raiatea -- A stupendous fête -- Repose at Bora Bora -- Divine service au tahitian -- Another feast -- Where next? -- A presumptuous treatise on the Tahitian Islands -- Chapter IX. Négra is doctored -- A squall -- The turtle and the shark -- Kava -- Tom turns jockey -- The island that blew up -- At the masthead -- Fiji -- A submarine volcano -- Near disaster -- Chapter X. Storm -- Appendix. For those nautically inclined
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