_ 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.
       Title: Mardi and A Voyage Thither, Vol. I (of 2)
       Author: Herman Melville
       1864
       DEDICATED TO My Brother, ALLAN MELVILLE. _

Preface
Chapter 1. Foot In Stirrup
Chapter 2. A Calm
Chapter 3. A King For A Comrade
Chapter 4. A Chat In The Clouds
Chapter 5. Seats Secured And Portmanteaus Packed
Chapter 6. Eight Bells
Chapter 7. A Pause
Chapter 8. They Push Off, Velis Et Remis
Chapter 9. The Watery World Is All Before Them
Chapter 10. They Arrange Their Canopies And Lounges...
Chapter 11. Jarl Afflicted With The Lockjaw
Chapter 12. More About Being In An Open Boat
Chapter 13. Of The Chondropterygii...
Chapter 14. Jarl's Misgivings
Chapter 15. A Stitch In Time Saves Nine
Chapter 16. They Are Becalmed
Chapter 17. In High Spirits, They Push On For The Terra Incognita
Chapter 18. My Lord Shark And His Pages
Chapter 19. Who Goes There?
Chapter 20. Noises And Portents
Chapter 21. Man Ho!
Chapter 22. What Befel The Brigantine At The Pearl Shell Islands
Chapter 23. Sailing From The Island They Pillage The Cabin
Chapter 24. Dedicated To The College Of Physicians And Surgeons
Chapter 25. Peril A Peace-Maker
Chapter 26. Containing A Pennyweight Of Philosophy
Chapter 27. In Which The Past History Op The Parki Is Concluded
Chapter 28. Suspicions Laid, And Something About The Calmuc
Chapter 29. What They Lighted Upon In Further Searching The Craft...
Chapter 30. Hints For A Full Length Of Samoa
Chapter 31. Rovings Alow And Aloft
Chapter 32. Xiphius Platypterus
Chapter 33. Otard
Chapter 34. How They Steered On Their Way
Chapter 35. Ah, Annatoo!
Chapter 36. The Parki Gives Up The Ghost
Chapter 37. Once More They Take To The Chamois
Chapter 38. The Sea On Fire
Chapter 39. They Fall In With Strangers
Chapter 40. Sire And Sons
Chapter 41. A Fray
Chapter 42. Remorse
Chapter 43. The Tent Entered
Chapter 44. Away
Chapter 45. Reminiscences
Chapter 46. The Chamois With A Roving Commission
Chapter 47. Yillah, Jarl, And Samoa
Chapter 48. Something Under The Surface
Chapter 49. Yillah
Chapter 50. Yillah In Ardair
Chapter 51. The Dream Begins To Fade
Chapter 52. World Ho!
Chapter 53. The Chamois Ashore
Chapter 54. A Gentleman From The Sun
Chapter 55. Tiffin In A Temple
Chapter 56. King Media A Host
Chapter 57. Taji Takes Counsel With Himself
Chapter 58. Mardi By Night And Yillah By Day
Chapter 59. Their Morning Meal
Chapter 60. Belshazzar On The Bench
Chapter 61. An Incognito
Chapter 62. Taji Retires From The World
Chapter 63. Odo And Its Lord
Chapter 64. Yillah A Phantom
Chapter 65. Taji Makes Three Acquaintances
Chapter 66. With A Fair Wind, At Sunrise They Sail
Chapter 67. Little King Peepi
Chapter 68. How Teeth Were Regarded In Valapee
Chapter 69. The Company Discourse, And Braid-Beard Rehearses A Legend
Chapter 70. The Minstrel Leads Off With A Paddle-Song...
Chapter 71. They Land Upon The Island Of Juam
Chapter 72. A Book From The Chronicles Of Mohi
Chapter 73. Something More Of The Prince
Chapter 74. Advancing Deeper Into The Vale, They Encounter Donjalolo
Chapter 75. Time And Temples
Chapter 76. A Pleasant Place For A Lounge
Chapter 77. The House Of The Afternoon
Chapter 78. Babbalanja Solus
Chapter 79. The Center Of Many Circumferences
Chapter 80. Donjalolo In The Bosom Of His Family
Chapter 81. Wherein Babbalanja Relates The Adventure Of One Karkeke...
Chapter 82. How Donjalolo, Sent Agents To The Surrounding Isles; With The Result
Chapter 83. They Visit The Tributary Islets
Chapter 84. Taji Sits Down To Dinner With Five-And-Twenty Kings, And A Royal Time They Have
Chapter 85. After Dinner
Chapter 86. Of Those Scamps The Plujii
Chapter 87. Nora-Bamma
Chapter 88. In A Calm, Hautia's Heralds Approach
Chapter 89. Braid-Beard Rehearses The Origin Of The Isle Of Rogues
Chapter 90. Rare Sport At Ohonoo
Chapter 91. Of King Uhia And His Subjects
Chapter 92. The God Keevi And The Precipice Op Mondo
Chapter 93. Babbalanja Steps In Between Mohi And Yoomy...
Chapter 94. Of That Jolly Old Lord, Borabolla...
Chapter 95. That Jolly Old Lord Borabolla Laugh...
Chapter 96. Samoa A Surgeon
Chapter 97. Faith And Knowledge
Chapter 98. The Tale Of A Traveler
Chapter 99. "Marnee Ora, Ora Marnee"
Chapter 100. The Pursuer Himself Is Pursued
Chapter 101. The Iris
Chapter 102. They Depart From Mondoldo
Chapter 103. As They Sail
Chapter 104. Wherein Babbalanja Broaches A Diabolical Theory...