INDEX 



ABOLITION, war of, 73 



&thurus, 210 



Aflalo, F. G. (tarpon caught by), 



137, 138 

 Africa, tarpon on West Coast of, 



109 



Agriculture in Carolina, 70 

 Cuba, 196 



Jamaica, 207 



Ailments of captive beasts, 32 

 fishes, 37 

 Albula, 155 



Alinas, Manuel (guide), 137, 138 

 Alleghanies, the, 57 

 Alligator hunt, an, 158-163 

 Alligators in captivity, 31, 182, 183 

 Florida, 91, 158-163, 



170 

 natural history of, 164, 



165 

 American biscuits, 23 



carelessness of deadly 



snakes, 172 

 children, 7 

 cigars, 25 

 coffee, 23 

 drunkenness, 22, 23, 



177 



food, 22, 23, 24 

 influence in the West 

 Indies, 200, 201, 218 

 melodrama, 26 

 men and women, 6 

 national anthems, 9 

 race prejudice, 8 

 tea, 24 

 theatres, 25-27 

 wages, 22 



Americans, Cuban, opinion of, 186 



Amyas Leigh, 254 



Ancon Hospital, 225, 243 



Anecdotes, 43, 59, 163 



Anheuser Busch, 130 



Annotto Bay, 229 



Anopheles^ 173 223, 224, 243,244 



Anthems, national, 9 



Antilles, The, 257 



Antoine, Lake, no 



Antonio, Port, 227, 228 



Antrostomus, 166 



Apollinaris, 22 



Aquarium, the New York, 34, 35- 

 40 



Aransas, tarpon-fishing at, 109 



ArchosarguS) 155 



Aristelliger, 213 



Asafcetida, 173 



Asheville, 58, 59 



Atlantic and Pacific Oceans com- 

 pared, 240 



Audubon in Florida, 167 

 society, the, 167 



Avogado pear as bait for moun- 

 tain mullet, 231 



BAGGAGE on railroads, 47, 77 



Bahamas, fishes from the, 40 



Baits for tarpon, 118-120 



Baltic herrings, 104 

 mosquitoes on the, 224 



Baltimore, pretty women at, 50 



Bananas, 204, 205, 218, 227 



Baranquilla, 253 



Barbados, barracouta at, 220 



healthy climate of, 259 

 natives of, 247, 259, 



260 

 turkey-buzzard at, 194 



Barracouta, 220, 221, 254 



Bass, black, 67 

 channel, 153, 154 



Bates, Miss Blanche, 26 



Bathing, sea-, 219, 220 



Bears, 28, 64, 169 



Behring Sea arbitration, 37 



Belasco's theatre, 26 



Benson, Captain, 250, 253, 255, 

 261 



Bergall, 39 



Bermuda, fishes from, 40 



263 



