4 Recreations of a Sportsman 



different, due to some strange phenomenon of 

 the sea. 



We had divers pastimes on divers days; pas- 

 times and sports and jests on which tired menrest. 

 The Governor landed a giant black sea-bass from 

 the beach and was a majestic and Romanesque 

 figure as he paid out the line which his angling 

 partner, Joaquin Arce, towed out a hundred feet 

 in his skiff. There was terrific mountain climb- 

 ing, clever revolver shooting by Pinchot and 

 White, at wild goats at long range across the 

 canon; following tall-finned orcas, or killer 

 whales; expert fishing by the Senator with light 

 tackle, and diversions of many and varied kinds, 

 designed against the habitants of the San Cle- 

 mente mountain slopes, as the island is the 

 summit of a huge volcanic peak rising abruptly 

 from the deep sea. 



Swordfishes had been seen for a week. Occa- 

 sionally a long slender form glistened in the 

 air, a dazzling spectacle as it fell with a re- 

 sounding crash; and one day, as we lay off a 

 diminutive replica of the Grand Cation, which 

 cut its sinuous way up and into the heart of the 

 island a big swordsman of the sea, bearing on 

 his escutcheon the noble Roman title of Tetrap- 

 turus mitsukurii, came swinging down along 

 shore. 



The blue waters here abound in sunfishes, 

 great and small, which are continually leaping 



