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A FORLORN QUEST AND SOME 

 COMPENSATIONS 



Success and Failure Welsh Adders Other Failures : Arun 

 and Teign Mullet Poole Bass Bexhill Cod Lulworth 

 Pollack Eddystone Whiting -Sydney Grouper Queensland 

 Perch Maldon Brill The Worst Failure of all : Madeira 

 Tunny Origin of Plan to Catch them on the Rod -Prepara- 

 tions and Arrangements for the Trip Arrival at Funchal 

 Our First Outing We catch a Turtle, but no Tunny Our 

 Second Failure We Follow the Tunny to Porto Santo- 

 Camp three nights on the Ilheo de Cima with C. B. Cossart 

 Fishing in the Rock-pools Barbary Type of Our Fishermen- 

 Bringing Spiders Home for the Zoo We Catch a Variety of 

 Fish in Trammels Other Rod-fishing : Sargo-fishing at Sun- 

 set Novel Way of Getting Crab-bait The Birds of our 

 Island Padre Schmitz Trailing for Garoupa A Last Try 

 for Tunny A Rough Sea for Fishing Chances of Catching 

 Madeira Tunny on the Rod Different Classes of Tunny 

 Difficulties Mr. Holder's Advice Fishing for Mackerel and 

 Mursena at Funchal Torches and Groundbait An Incanta- 

 tion Farewell to Madeira ! 



OF failures it is the lot of the fisherman to taste 

 more generous measure than of successes. Fortun- 

 ately, the memory of success stands the wear and 

 tear of time much the better of the two, else 

 suicide would be more popular. This is so with 

 trifles as with life's greater traffic. Those two 



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