I. TWENTY-ONE. Beyond Sandy Hook -- Negro -- Salvation -- The mother of the Gracchi -- Central High -- Abrupt encounter -- Father -- Back home -- I've known rivers -- Mexico again -- Promenade -- Means of escape -- Card from Cuernavaca -- Bullfights -- Tragedy in Toluca -- Departure -- Manhattan Island -- Dormitory -- Columbia -- On my own -- Haunted ship -- Time to leave -- II. BIG SEA. Africa -- Sailor's holiday -- S.S. "Malone" -- Burutu moon -- Wreck of the monkey cage -- Voyage home -- Standee -- Jocko -- Bad luck is good -- Winter seas to Rotterdam -- Montmartre -- Work -- Le Grand Duc -- Paris in the spring -- Poem -- Don't hit a woman -- Bricktop -- Late place -- Chef one-eye -- Distinguished visitor -- Italy -- Beachcomber -- Workaway -- Washington society -- Vachel Lindsay -- Poetry is practical -- III. BLACK RENAISSANCE. When the Negro was in vogue -- Harlem literati -- Gurdjieff in Harlem -- Parties -- Downtown -- Shows -- Poetry -- Nigger heaven -- Spectacles in color -- Lincoln University -- Flood on the Mississippi -- New Orleans-Havana -- Creoles and conjur -- Old hat -- Interracial conference -- Not without laughter -- Alma mater -- Extra page -- Patron and friend -- Not primitive -- Diagnosis -- Literary quarrel -- Postscript.