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Start of eBook	1
THE ‘BODY OF THE NATION’	1
EDITOR’S TABLE, HARPER’S MAGAZINE, FEBRUARY 1863	1
Chapter 2 The River and Its Explorers	6
Chapter 3 Frescoes from the Past	9
Chapter 4 The Boys’ Ambition	19
Chapter 5 I Want to be a Cub-pilot	22
Chapter 6 A Cub-pilot’s Experience	25
Chapter 7 A Daring Deed	30
Chapter 8 Perplexing Lessons	34
Chapter 9 Continued Perplexities	38
Chapter 10 Completing My Education	43
Chapter 11 The River Rises	47
Chapter 12 Sounding	52
Chapter 13 A Pilot’s Needs	56
Chapter 14 Rank and Dignity of Piloting	61
Chapter 15 The Pilots’ Monopoly	66
Chapter 16 Racing Days	74
Chapter 17 Cut-offs and Stephen	80
Chapter 18 I Take a Few Extra Lessons	85
Chapter 19 Brown and I Exchange Compliments	89
Chapter 20 A Catastrophe	92
Chapter 21 A Section in My Biography	95
Chapter 22 I Return to My Muttons	96
Chapter 23 Traveling Incognito	101
Chapter 24 My Incognito is Exploded	103
Chapter 25 From Cairo to Hickman	107
Chapter 26 Under Fire	110
THE PILOT’S FIRST BATTLE	111
Chapter 27 Some Imported Articles	115
Chapter 28 Uncle Mumford Unloads	118
UNCLE MUMFORD’S IMPRESSIONS	120
Chapter 29 A Few Specimen Bricks	124
Chapter 30 Sketches by the Way	130
Chapter 31 A Thumb-print and What Came of It	135
A DYING MAN S CONFESSION	137
Chapter 32 The Disposal of a Bonanza	144
Chapter 33 Refreshments and Ethics	147
Chapter 34 Tough Yarns	150
Chapter 35 Vicksburg During the Trouble	151
Chapter 36 The Professor’s Yarn	156
Chapter 37 The End of the ‘Gold Dust’	161
Chapter 38 The House Beautiful	161
Chapter 39 Manufactures and Miscreants	165
Chapter 40 Castles and Culture	169
Chapter 41 The Metropolis of the South	172
Chapter 42 Hygiene and Sentiment	175
Chapter 43 The Art of Inhumation	177
Chapter 44 City Sights	180
Chapter 45 Southern Sports	184
Chapter 46 Enchantments and Enchanters	189
Chapter 47 Uncle Remus and Mr. Cable	192
Chapter 48 Sugar and Postage	193
Chapter 49 Episodes in Pilot Life	197
Chapter 50 The ‘Original Jacobs’	200
Chapter 51 Reminiscences	204
Chapter 52 A Burning Brand	208
Chapter 53 My Boyhood’s Home	216
Chapter 54 Past and Present	219
Chapter 55 A Vendetta and Other Things	224
Chapter 56 A Question of Law	228
Chapter 57 An Archangel	231
Chapter 58 On the Upper River	235
Chapter 59 Legends and Scenery	239
Chapter 60 Speculations and Conclusions	243
APPENDIX A	248
VOYAGE OF THE TIMES-DEMOCRAT’S RELIEF BOAT THROUGH THE INUNDATED REGIONS	248
DOWN BLACK RIVER	253
THE FLOOD STILL RISING	255
APPENDIX B	256
APPENDIX C	259
APPENDIX D	261

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