Volume 1: Preface; 1. Reasons for writing this autobiography; 2. Excitement of the French Revolution, in 1792; 3. My going to sea at length determined on; 4. Sailing from Falmouth, after adieus and struggles; 5. Second voyage to Lisbon in the same ship; 6. Disastrous issue for my third voyage to Lisbon; 7. Setting out on our march through Galicia; 8. The English fleet of Sir John Jervis entering the Tagus; 9. Complete change in the current of my life; 10. Life of ease and pleasure passed on shore; 11. Determination to resume my original sea-life; 12. Delay in the arrival of an expected ship; 13. First voyage to the West Indies in the Titus; 14. Portuguese merchants from Lisbon and Oporto; 15. Voyage to Virginia, in America, in the ship Rising States; 16. First appointment as Captain of a West Indiaman, at twenty-one; 17. First entertainment at a military mess-room; 18. Homeward voyage from the Bahama Islands; 19. Association with captains, merchants, and ship-owners; 20. Anticipations and preparations for the Mediterranean; 21. Departure from Gibraltar for Malta; 22. Departure from Malta for the Archipelago. Volume 2: 1. Voyage through the Straits of Scio to Smyrna; 2. New phase of life. Gaiety and pleasure in London; 3. Stay at Malta and agreeable parties there; 4. Agreeable stay at Smyrna, notwithstanding the plague; 5. Sail from Smyrna with a companion, the Hermes; 6. Elegant hospitalities and agreeable parties in England; 7. Sail for Smyrna. Leaving goods behind at Malta; 8. Embark for Egypt in the schooner Theodosia; 9. Voyage from Alexandria to Rosetta by the Lakes; 10. Offer to transport ships across the Desert of Suez; 11. Visit a caravan of slaves from the interior of Africa; 12. Descent of the Nile from Nubia, and the Cataracts; 13. Descent of the Nile from Keneh to Cairo; 14. Journey in search of the ancient canal; 15. Journey through the land of Goshen; 16. First interview with Mohammed Ali Pasha; 17. Departure for India by Suez and the Red Sea; 18. Voyage from Jedda by Loheia and Hodeida to Mocha; 19. Entrance to the noble harbour of Bombay; 20. Mercantile want of confidence in the Egyptian Pasha; 21. Voyage from Bombay to Suez by the Red Sea; 22. Arrival at Suez, and journey across the desert.
