Vlll CONTENTS 



CHAPTER III 



BY TIDELESS SEAS 



Two Memories Warnemiinde and Leghorn A Deserted 

 Pier River and Sea Together A German University Ros- 

 tock The Warnow Tyranny of Professional Fishermen 

 An Expedition after Pike Fellow Students The Season at 

 a Baltic Watering Place Easy Fishing A Fillet of Bream 

 A Fight with an Octopus Grey Mullet at Last A Night 

 with Dynamite Bombs A Private Mullet Stew Mr. Sher- 

 ingham's Bridge-fever Spearing Muraenas by Torchlight 

 A Stroke of Luck at Naples . . . . . . . . p. 63 



CHAPTER IV 



POLLACK AND PILCHARDS 



The Charm of Mevagissey The Realm of the Pilchard- 

 Hard Work of the Fishermen Our Bag in 1894 A Burning 

 Village The Late Matthias Dunn Other Cornish Resorts 

 A Day's Pollack-fishing at Mevagissey Catching a Shark 

 A Lost Anchor and a Dead Calm Mixed Fishing nearer 

 Shore Catching Squid A Night's Congering Harold 

 Frederic . . , . . . . . . . . . p. 87 



CHAPTER V 



SCHNAPPER AND BLACK BREAM 



Difference of Surroundings Little Freshwater Fishing in 

 Australia Sydney Harbour An Outing after Schnapper 

 Fishing in Broken Bay Fallen Among Sharks Schnapper 

 and Sundries Rods Unsuitable Losing a Big Fish Bright 

 Colouring of Australian Fishes Middle Harbour Black 

 Bream in Still Waters " Berley " Blackfish Rods More 

 Popular in Queensland Possible Legacy of " Redspinner " 

 Flathead and Jewfish Sharks and Catfish in Moreton Bay 

 Calm-water Fishing Rock-fishing Dreadful Climbs A Re- 

 lation of Thackeray " Cungevoi " A Caution about Sea- 

 urchins Leather Jackets Failure to catch Hobart Trum- 

 peter and Fitzroy Perch Shooting Kangaroo and Duck A 

 Queensland Estuary and Quinine. . . . . . p. 127 



