Chapter 1 
A blue-nose ancestry with Yankee proclivities - Youthful fondness for the sea - Master of the ship "Northern Light" - Loss of the "Aquidneck" - Return home from Brazil in the canoe "Liberdade" - The gift of a "ship" - The rebuilding of the «Spray» - Conundrums in regard to finance and calking - The launching of the «Spray».

Chapter 2 
A Failure as a fisherman - A voyage around the world projected — From Boston to Gloucester - Fitting out for the ocean voyage - Half of a dory for a ship's boat - The run from Gloucester to Nova Scotia - A shaking up in home waters - Among old friends.blue-nose ancestry with Yankee proclivities - Youthful fondness for the sea - Master of the ship "Northern Light" - Loss of the "Aquidneck" - Return home from Brazil in the canoe "Liberdade" - The gift of a "ship" - The rebuilding of the «Spray» - Conundrums in regard to finance and calking - The launching of the «Spray».

Chapter 3 
Good-by to the American coast - Off Sable Island in a fog - In the open sea - The man in the moon takes an interest in the voyage - The first fit of loneliness - The «Spray» encounters "La Vaguisa" - A bottle of wine from the Spaniard - A bout of words with the captain of the "Java" - The steamship "Olympia" spoken - Arrival at the Azores.

Chapter 4 
Squally weather in the Azores - High living - Delirious from cheese and plums - The pilot of the "Pinta" - At Gibraltar - Compliments exchanged with the British navy - A picnic on the Morocco shore.

Chapter 5 
Sailing1 from Gibraltar with the assistance of her Majesty's tug—The Spray's course changed from the Suez Canal to Cape Horn — Chased by a Moorish pirate — A com¬ parison with Columbus —The Canary Islands —The Cape Verde Islands -— Sea life — Arrival at Pernambnco — A bill against the Brazilian government — Preparing for the stormy weather of the cape 50

РозділChapter 6 
Departure from Rio de Janeiro - The «Spray» ashore on the sands of Uruguay - A narrow escape from shipwreck - The boy who found a sloop - The «Spray» floated but somewhat damaged - Courtesies from the British consul at Maldonado - A warm greeting at Montevideo — An excursion to Buenos Aires - Shortening the mast and bowsprit.

РозділChapter 7 
DepWeighing anchor at Buenos Aires - An outburst of emotion at the mouth of the Plate - Submerged by a great wave - A stormy entrance to the strait - Captain Samblich's happy gift of a bag of carpet-tacks — Off Cape Froward - Chased by Indians from Fortescue Bay - A miss-shot for "Black Pedro" - Taking in supplies of wood and water at Three Island Cove - Animal life.arture from Rio de Janeiro - The «Spray» ashore on the sands of Uruguay - A narrow escape from shipwreck - The boy who found a sloop - The «Spray» floated but somewhat damaged - Courtesies from the British consul at Maldonado - A warm greeting at Montevideo — An excursion to Buenos Aires - Shortening the mast and bowsprit.

Chapter 8 
From Cape Pillar into the Pacific - Driven by a tempest toward Cape Horn - Captain Slocum's greatest sea adventure - Beaching the strait again by way of Cockburn Channel - Some savages find the carpet-tacks - Danger from firebrands - A series of fierce williwaws - Again sailing westward.

Chapter 9 
Repairing the «Spray's» sails - Savages and an obstreperous anchor - A spider-fight - An encounter with Black Pedro - A visit to the steamship «Colombia», - On the defensive against a fleet of canoes - A record of voyages through the strait - A chance cargo of tallow.

Chapter 10 
Running to Port Angosto in a snow-storm - A defective sheetrope places the «Spray» in peril - The «Spray» as a target for a Fuegian arrow — The island of Alan Erric - Again in the open Pacific - The run to the island of Juan Fernandez - An absentee king - At Robinson Crusoe's anchorage.

Chapter 11 
The islanders at Juan Fernandez entertained with Yankee doughnuts — The beauties of Robinson Crusoe's realm - The mountain monument to Alexander Selkirk - Robinson Crusoe's cave - A stroll with the children of the island - Westward ho! with a friendly gale - A month's free sailing with the Southern Cross and the sun for guides - Sighting the Marquesas - Experience in reckoning.

Chapter 12 
Seventy-two days without a port - Whales and birds - A peep into the «Spray's» galley - Flying-fish for breakfast - A welcome at Apia — A visit from Mrs. Robert Louis Stevenson - At Vailima — Samoan hospitality - Arrested for fast riding - An amusing merry-go-round - Teachers and pupils of Papauta College - At the mercy of sea-nymphs.

Chapter 13 
Samoan royalty - King Malietoa - Good-by to friends at Vailima — Leaving Fiji to the south - Arrival at Newcastle, Australia - The yachts of Sydney - A ducking on the «Spray» - Commodore Foy presents the sloop with a new suit of sails - On to Melbourne - A shark that proved to be valuable - A change of course - The "Rain of Blood" - In Tasmania.

Chapter 14 
SA testimonial from a lady - Cruising round Tasmania - The skipper delivers his first lecture on the voyage - Abundant provisions - An inspection of the «Spray» for safety at Devonport - Again at Sydney - Northward bound for Torres Strait - An amateur shipwreck - Friends on the Australian coast - Perils of a coral sea.amoan royalty - King Malietoa - Good-by to friends at Vailima — Leaving Fiji to the south - Arrival at Newcastle, Australia - The yachts of Sydney - A ducking on the «Spray» - Commodore Foy presents the sloop with a new suit of sails - On to Melbourne - A shark that proved to be valuable - A change of course - The "Rain of Blood" - In Tasmania.

Chapter 15 
Arrival at Port Denison, Queensland - A lecture - Reminiscences of Captain Cook - Lecturing for charity at Cooktown - A happy escape from a coral reef - Home Island, Sunday Island, Bird Island - An American pearl-fisherman - Jubilee at Thursday Island - A new ensign for the «Spray» - Booby Island - Across the Indian Ocean - Christmas Island.

Chapter 16 
A call for careful navigation - Three hours' steering in twenty-three days - Arrival at the Keeling Cocos Islands - A curious chapter of social history - A welcome from the children of the islands — Cleaning and painting the «Spray» on the beach - A Mohammedan blessing for a pot of jam - Keeling as a paradise - A risky adventure in a small boat — Away to Rodriguez - Taken for Antichrist - The governor calms the fears of the people - A lecture - A convent in the hills.

Chapter 17 
A clean bill of health at Mauritius - Sailing the voyage over again in the opera-house - A newly discovered plant named in honor of the «Spray's» skipper - A party of young ladies out for a sail - A bivouac on deck - A warm reception at Durban - A friendly cross-examination by Henry M. Stanley - Three wise Boers seek proof of the flatness of the earth - Leaving South Africa.

Chapter 18 
Rounding the "Cape of Storms" in olden time - A rough Christmas — The «Spray» ties up for a three months' rest at Cape Town - A railway trip to the Transvaal - President Kruger's odd definition of the «Spray's» voyage - His terse sayings - Distinguished guests on the «Spray» - Cocoanut fiber as a padlock - Courtesies from the admiral of the Queen's navy - Off for St. Helena - Land in sight.

Chapter 19 
In the isle of Napoleon's exile - Two lectures - A guest in the ghost-room at Plantation House - An excursion to historic Longwood - Coffee in the husk, and a goat to shell it - The «Spray's» ill luck with animals - A prejudice against small dogs - A rat, the Boston spider, and the cannibal cricket - Ascension Island.

Chapter 20 
In the favoring current off Cape St. Roque, Brazil - All at sea regarding the Spanish-American war - An exchange of signals with the battle-ship «Oregon - Off Dreyfus's prison on Devil's Island - Reappearance to the «Spray» of the north star - The light on Trinidad - A charming introduction to Grenada - Talks to friendly auditors.

Chapter 21 
Clearing for home — In the calm belt — A sea covered with sargasso — The jibstay parts in a gale — Welcomed by a tornado off Fire Island — A change of plan — Arrival at Newport — End of a cruise of over forty-six thousand miles — The «Spray» again at Fairhaven.

Remarks 

Appendix Her pedigree so far as known - The Lines of the «Spray» - Her self-steering qualities - Sail-plan and steering-gear - An unprecedented feat - A final word of cheer to would-be navigators.