This is the final chapter of Roughing It. His friends play a practical joke on him by staging a midnight highway robbery, on a very cold night. It backfires. He decides to "go home" again, but then again one never can and he decides to head on on the adventure recounted in his book The Innocents Abroad.
Twain returns from Hawaii, a relatively uneventful trip. Now being unemployed he decides to try out public speaking. We hear how he dealt with stagefright.
Twain recounts his encounters with an extreme liar and tells of the liar's strange fate.
Mark tells stories to an aristocratic lady and gets caught out by a milk wagon horse. He rolls boulders into the Haleakala crater to watch them disppear into the hidden depths.
The story of a journey across the floor of the Kilauea volcano crater. Twain and a man named Marlette hike to the North Lake at night.
In the final chapter of his book, Roughing It, Mark Twain comments on the changes that occurred during his time in the American West.
A wonderful description of the inside of the Kilauea volcanic crater.
My avatar, SLClemens, in Second Life has been reading chapters from Mark Twain's book "The Innocents Abroad". I have been recording these readings and producing slideshow videos of them, published here on my web site. The videos are hosted by YouTube. One of these chapters, Chapter 13, elicited a response from a listener of surprise at how much Twain seemed to dislike the Ottoman Empire. The chapter itself contains a rather negative description of on Abdul Aziz, emperor of the Ottoman Empire. Twain had seen him in the company of Napoleon III, on parade.
Lots of adventures in this chapter from learning how to surf to climbing through lava tubes. Here also is an example of a place of refuge, sanctuary, for any criminal able enough to get to it before capture by pursuers.
Twain tells of the fall of the old Hawaiian religion just prior to the arrival of the missionaries. He also guards the clothing of several native girls as they swim.