The discovery of New Holland / William Dampier -- Lionel Wafer crosses Darien / Lionel Wafer -- Richard Simson at Juan Fernandez / Richard Simson -- Commodore Anson lands at Juan Fernandez / George Anson -- Byron and the Patagonian giants / John Byron -- The discovery of Tahiti / Samuel Wallis -- The unfortunate compiler / James Cook, Joseph Banks, John Hawkesworth -- Providential cannibalism / Johann Reinhold Forster -- William Wales makes observations / William Wales -- Benevolence on the beach / George Keate -- Resident observer / James Morrison -- The brethren and the "Tayos" / William Wilson -- Falling from grace / George Vason -- A stranger in a strange country / Edward Robarts -- The violence of the beach / Samuel Patterson, Richard Siddons -- Missiles and missives / William Mariner -- Unutterable practices / William Ellis -- Property and providence / John Williams -- Tapu and conceit in the Marquesas / David Darling -- Philanthropic sympathy and the interests of commerce / Abby Jane Morrell -- Among the cannibals / Mary Wallis -- Tapa and Muru in New Zealand / Frederick Maning -- A yankee at the court of Captain Cook / Mark Twain -- Quite alone in a mountain village / Constance F. Gordon-Cumming -- Belated first contact / Robert Louis Stevenson -- Cannibal fashions / Fanny van der Grift Stevenson -- "That link of history" / Henry Adams, Ari'i Taimai -- The ebbing of the tide / Louis Becke
