title: Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World
author:  Mark Twain 
description: <div>After the Civil War, Samuel Clemens (1835-1910) left his small town to seek work as a riverboat pilot. As Mark Twain, the Missouri native found his place in the world. Author, journalist, lecturer, wit, and sage, Twain created enduring works that have enlightened and amused readers of all ages for generations.</div>
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  ## Following the Equator
  
  
    
  
  
  ### Mark Twain
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ## FOLLOWING THE EQUATOR
  
  
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  ## PART 1.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  **CHAPTER I.**
  
  
  
  
  
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  A man may have no bad habits and have worse.
  
  
  
  
  
  —Pudd'nhead Wilson's New Calendar.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  _The Party—Across America to Vancouver—On Board the Warrimo—Steamer Chairs—The
  Captain—Going Home under a Cloud—A Gritty Purser—The Brightest
  Passenger—Remedy for Bad Habits—The Doctor and the Lumbago—A Moral
  Pauper—Limited Smoking—Remittance-men._
  
  
  The starting point of this lecturing-trip around the world was Paris, where we
  had been living a year or two.
  
  
  We sailed for America, and there made certain preparations. This took but
  little time. Two members of my family elected to go with me.