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A VOYAGE TO THE MOON: WITH SOME ACCOUNT OF THE MANNERS AND CUSTOMS, SCIENCE AND PHILOSOPHY, OF THE PEOPLE OF MOROSOFIA, AND OTHER LUNARIANS.
BY GEORGE TUCKER (JOSEPH ATTERLEY)
"It is the very error of the moon, She comes more near the earth than she was wont, And makes men mad."--_Othello_.
1827
CONTENTS.
CHAPTER I.
Atterley's birth and education--He makes a voyage-- Founders off the Burman coast--Adventures in that Empire--Meets with a learned Brahmin from Benares.
CHAPTER II.
The Brahmin's illness--He reveals an important secret to Atterley--Curious information concerning the Moon--The Glonglims--They plan a voyage to the Moon.
CHAPTER III.
The Brahmin and Atterley prepare for their voyage-- Description of their travelling machine--Incidents of the voyage--The appearance of the earth; Africa; Greece--The Brahmin's speculations on the different races of men--National character.
CHAPTER IV.
Continuation of the voyage--View of Europe; Atlantic Ocean; America--Speculations on the future destiny of the United States--Moral reflections-- Pacific Ocean--Hypothesis on the origin of the Moon.
CHAPTER V.
The voyage continued--Second view of Asia--The Brahmin's speculations concerning India--Increase of the Moon's attraction--Appearance of the Moon --They land on the Moon.
CHAPTER VI.
Some account of Morosofia, and its chief city, Alamatua --Singular dresses of the Lunar ladies--Religious self-denial--Glonglim miser and spendthrift.
CHAPTER VII.
Physical peculiarities of the Moon--Celestial phenomena --Farther description of the Lunarians--National prejudice--Lightness of bodies--The Brahmin carries Atterley to sup with a philosopher-- His character and opinions.
CHAPTER VIII.
A celebrated physician: his ingenious theories in physics: his mechanical inventions--The feather-hunting Glonglim.
CHAPTER IX.
The fortune-telling philosopher, who inspected the finger nails: his visiters--Another philosopher, who judged of the character by the hair--The fortune-teller duped--Predatory warfare.
CHAPTER X.
The travellers visit a gentleman farmer, who is a great projector: his breed of cattle: his apparatus for cooking--He is taken dangerously ill.
Table of contents (by pages)
- 1: A Voyage to the Moon by George Tucker
- 2: The Brahmin gives Atterley a history of his life
- 3: Has brought from his Lunar Expedition
- 4: Who had visited Washington during Mr
- 5: Faithfully reflected from the Moon
- 6: The rapidity with which this speck grew into a dense cloud
- 7: By the invading army of Great Britain
- 8: The village was near a gap in the mountain
- 9: At these times his cell was closed
- 10: When I repaired to the hermitage as usual
- 11: The Brahmin recovered his ordinary health and strength
- 12: Providing for that purpose an apparatus
- 13: 'May the moon eat up your brains
- 14: We call a lunatic a man beside himself
- 15: Made partly of iron and partly of lunarium
- 16: To let in a fresh supply of condensed air
- 17: When the Brahmin saw that I had overcome my first surprise
- 18: And put under this or that mode of cultivation
- 19: The great diversities of national character may
- 20: The Brahmin suggested that they might be currents
- 21: And consequently in their power of multiplication
- 22: Oftener go without a dinner than the richest Otaheitan
- 23: For the Brahmin satisfied his hunger with the ghee
- 24: Were all caused by the disruption
- 25: The agreeable hours I had passed with the Brahmin
- 26: Hindostan was invaded by Alexander but not conquered
- 27: And that they impelled to the sacrifice
- 28: The Brahmin observed We have
- 29: While the Brahmin was speaking
- 30: Suited to the tropical climate of Morosofia
- 31: The inhabitants subsist chiefly on a vegetable diet
- 32: The Brahmin having passed it to me for my judgment
- 33: We found he was engaged in making nails
- 34: The other half would discharge his debts
- 35: And the long twilight of the Lunarians had begun
- 36: But an eclipse of the earth never takes place
- 37: But for the seasonable interposition of the Brahmin
- 38: Wigurd displayed his usual ingenuity and ardour
- 39: That those who have since propounded
- 40: Forces up a piston through a cylinder
- 41: I open the drawer that is thus labelled
- 42: We learnt that a famous fortune teller lived there
- 43: And often plausible course of reasoning
- 44: The Brahmin and I took advantage of the confusion
- 45: Do your vassals get rich by the bounty you give them
- 46: You would both be considerable gainers
- 47: The Brahmin then turning to me
- 48: And hurrying to open the stove
- 49: And cleaned the knives the forks
- 50: While I indulged in these sad meditations
- 51: I could adduce undeniable testimonials of their efficacy
- 52: Dridrano all the while bellowing
- 53: The Brahmin told me that the teacher's name was Lozzi Pozzi
- 54: Had made an ingenious and high sounding piece of eloquence
- 55: When the schoolmaster prevailed
- 56: And when he said Vilti Goulgoul
- 57: The prize fighters seldom sustain serious injury
- 58: That spinning and sewing were unhealthy occupations
- 59: The Okalbians are a tribe or nation
- 60: Which have been long stationary
- 61: Which they regularly transmitted once a month to Okalbia
- 62: Their talents find them employment every where
- 63: The smallest proprietors commonly adopt the first course
- 64: From the strong bias it created to misrepresent facts
- 65: They have a variety of public schools
- 66: And I was extolling the odour of the rose
- 67: The disagreeable ideas of sickness
- 68: Like the rest of the bystanders
- 69: I found the Brahmin at home when I returned
- 70: The Brahmin exhibited the same mild equanimity as ever
- 71: And that one was not Balty Mahu
- 72: That I here met with my former rival
- 73: On the morning of the festival
- 74: And on approaching the lattice
- 75: I entreated to know if she was satisfied with my apology
- 76: I know not if Veenah expected to see me
- 77: Would often take Veenah out to walk
- 78: I then determined to see Shunah Shoo
- 79: My father informed me that Shunah Shoo
- 80: She verbally replied to it through Fatima
- 81: That Balty Mahu was entirely forgotten
- 82: But all condemning and execrating Shunah Shoo
- 83: And the wretched Veenah made her appearance
- 84: The venerable Brahmin here concluded his narrative
- 85: The Brahmin and myself remained together two days
- 86: Since the appearance of this celebrated satire
- 87: Satire must possess a certain degree of impartiality
- 88: There lived a venerable Hindoo
- 89: Atterley's visits to the hermitage
- 90: Stretching out his feverish hand
- 91: And Regiomontanus a wooden eagle
- 92: To carry not only food for the viaticum of the passengers
- 93: Made partly of iron and partly of lunarium
- 94: After the apprehensions of Atterley
- 95: Atterley now looked down again through the telescope
- 96: Atterley was awakened by the Brahmin
- 97: Which the Brahmin recognised as the country of the Morosofs
- 98: Atterley looked around with the most intense curiosity
- 99: Of the dress of the male and female lunarians
- 100: Unless it be considered to refer to the Glonglims
- 101: The absurdities of the physiognomical system of Lavater
- 102: The Brahmin assigns them a lunar origin
- 103: And each provided with a syringe and two canteens
- 104: Whither Gurameer soon follows her
- 105: He now sees Veenah approach the funeral pile
- 106: The Brahmin and myself remained together two days
- 107: APPENDIX FOOTNOTES Footnote 1 Scott's Swift