10 CON"TEN"TS. 



Fisli Story. Sea Turtles Resigned to their Fate. Contented and Happy Negroes. 

 Good Order in Nassau. How a Millenium can be Secured. Agricultural and Manu- 

 facturing Industry not Rooted in the Rocks. Sugar making. Small Islands unfavor- 

 able to Intellectual Development p. 113 



Chap. VIII.— Absence of Wild Animals upon Coral Islands. Pleasures of the Chase Un- 

 known. Diet of the Aborigines. How Alligators Taste. The Guanas as a Table 

 Luxury. They are Intoxicated with Whistling Music. Vassar Girls Charming 

 Turtles. Mountain Crabs. The Hermit Crab a Freebooter. The Lizards ; Changing 

 their Color and Hunting Game. Animals upon the West India Islands when Discov- 

 ered. Snakes. Sea Turtles. Turtle Shells. How Sponges Grow and form Commu- 

 nistic Communities. The Sponge Fisheries. Value and Quantity of Bahama Sponges 

 Exported p, 125 



Chap. IX.— Amusements. Small and Isolated Communities thrown upon their Own Re- 

 sources. Visit of a Circus Company to Nassau. Its Effect upon the Negroes. Whist 

 and Boating Clubs. Base-ball and Polo. Military and Marbles. Religion Utilizing 

 the Idle Hours. Streets Placarded with Notices of Solemn Fasts. Absence of a Color 

 Line in Churches. Amateur Pishing. The Boatmen Canvassing for Customers. Capt. 

 Sampson a Fisher of Men. He Describes and Discusses the Sharks. . . p. 143 



Chap. X.— Yachting in Bahama Waters. Sampson and his Triton. Testing a Sail-boat. 

 Searching Outside in a Good Wind for the Line Storm. Sampson's Visit to New York. 

 His Experiences and Impressions. Reliable Wind— Delightful Views— Congenial 

 Friends, The Log of the Pleasure Seekers. Newly Discovered Poets. The Gulf 

 Weed p. 155 



Chap. XI.— Nassau as a Sanitarium. Its Mild and Generally Salubrious Climate. Its 

 Freedom from Cold Waves of Air and Cold Currents of Water. Its Vulnerable Points. 

 No Absorbing and Filtering Sands. Impurities Endangering its Water Supply and 

 Poisoning the Air. A High Degree of Heat in the Sun. Diseases upon the Islands. 

 Small but Crowded Human Ant Hills. The Yellow Fever in Nassau in 1880. The 

 Pestilence in other Neighboring Cities at Other Times. The Angel of Health Rides 

 Upon Hurricanes. Cleansing the City. Constant Vigilance and Activity of Nassau's 

 Board of Health Essential to its Safety. Who may Hope for Relief and Cure in Nassau. 

 Not the Best Place in which cither to be very Sick or to Die. Frost a Factor in tho 

 Problem of Civilization. Human Development and Progress Dependent upon Ice. 

 Sea Bathing all Winter p. 171 



Chap. XII.— Corals and Coral Reefs. The Marvelous Beauty of the " Marine Garden." 

 Its Corals, Coralines, Gorgonias, Algae, Sponges and Wonderfully Colored Fishes. 

 Water Glasses. Natural Aquariums. Coral Bowers and Grottoes. Sea Urchins. 

 The Colored Divers. Life in the Rock p. 209 



Chap. XIII.— The Extent of the World of Waters and its Wonderful Fauna. Bahama 

 Fishes. Some Eminently Distinguished for their Brilliant Colors, and Others for 

 their Singularity, described. Fish that are Poisonous. Table Fish. The Bahamas 

 Rich in Beautiful Mollusks. They Harmonize with the other Exqusite Forms of Life 



