The story-book chapters are numbered in a screwball order: I, VI, III, XII, and XXII.
The opening shot after the credits is the first of several upper portions of first pages of chapters of a story-book, which punctuate the cartoon. The last two words of this first sentence, which name the destination, are obscured at the bottom: "Pleasantly anticipating a safe voyage, we prepared to set sail for Zanzibar."