Abaft The Funnel Chapter 17 - A Supplementary Chapter

In which the narrator visits Chautauqua and observes with keen irony the peculiar blend of earnest self-improvement and strict Sabbath observance enforced by denominational fervour, revealing the strange constraints placed upon its visitors. He then shares a wild tale of a disastrous cable-car venture in Bow Flume, before lamenting the dreariness of London and the seasonal rhythms of life far from the tropics.