ON THE FISHING GROUNDS 



to keep us company during the whole of our stay in those 

 parts. 



Although some days were to pass before I caught my 

 first tarpon, continual references would be made to that fish 



TWO TARPON. 



by the sportsmen seen or heard of on our sailings and excur- 

 sions in this interesting fishing country. As a rule, people 

 there think and talk of nothing else, and I was much amused 

 one day when a gentleman estimated the proportions of a 



