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.

A wonderful description of the inside of the Kilauea volcanic crater.