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INDEX 



Pratt, Charles (guide), 137, 138, 



139 



Prawn bait for tarpon, 120, 149 

 Premier ops, 153 

 Protection of wild birds, 169 

 Punta Gorda, 48, 74, 77-81, 91 

 Pyrophorus, 217 



QUAIL, 1 68 



call of the, 166 

 Queen's Park Hotel (Port of 



Spain), 257, 258 

 Queenstown, 3 



euinine, 226 

 uiscalus, 211 



Rachycentron, 153 



Railroad travel in America, 43, 44, 



46-50, 57-59, 75, 76 

 Railroad travel in Cuba, 192-197 

 England, i 



,, Jamaica, 219, 



229 



Rain at Havana, 191 

 Port Antonio, 228 

 Port of Spain, 228 

 Rainbow trout, 53, 67 

 Raleigh holds North Carolina, 6 1 

 Ramsbottom, G. H. (tarpon 



caught by), 137, 138, 139, 142 

 Rattlesnakes, 169, 171, 172 



Rays, leaping, 87, 153 

 Red bug, 173 



Reel, the tarpon, 96, 97, 112, 113 

 Remoras, 153 

 Reptile Houses, 31 

 Reptiles of Florida, 170, 172 

 Jamaica, 213, 214 

 Republican ideals, 41, 42 

 Rifle detained at the Havana 



Customs, 182 

 Ringtail pigeon, 216 

 Roach, Mr(Owner of Useppa), 155 

 Road, rule of the, 24 

 Roderick Random, memories of, 



250 



Rod-rest, 116 



Rod, the tarpon, 96, 112, 140 

 Roosevelt, estimate of President, 



55 

 ,, interview with, 51 



Roper, Mr (Jamaica), 204, 213 

 Rose Salterne, memories of, 254 

 Ross, Major Ronald, 223 



Royal Mail, S.S. Co., 215 

 Ruffed grouse, 63, 68 

 Rum, 218 



ST ANN (Jamaica), 204, 211 



St Paul on thirst, 21 



Salmon and tarpon-fishing, com- 

 pared, 87 



Sanabel Island, 158 



Sanborn, Mr (photographer to the 

 N.Y.Z.S.), 33 



Sancho Panza (quoted), 21 



Sandy Hook, 14 



San Francisco, earthquake at, 19, 

 17 



Santa Catalina, 95 



Santa Clara (Cuba), 192, 193 



Santa Cruz (Cuba), 195, 207 



Santiago di Cuba, 196, 197, 207 



Sapphire, Lake, 63, 66 



Sargo, 156 



Saturday Review, Mr E. Selous 

 in the, 29 



Savanilla, 232, 253 



Sawfish, 154 



Saw-grass, 160 



Scales, tarpon, 102 



Scicenops, 153 



Scomberomorus, 153, 155 



Sea-level type of canal, 235 



Sea-lions, 32, 37, 56 



Seals, 30 



Season for tarpon-fishing, 106 



Selous, Mr E., 29 

 Mr F. C., 53 



Seminole Indians, 160 



"September," the, 212 



Setting up tarpon, cost of, 99 



Settlements in Cuba, alien, 195 



Sharks, 84, 86, 89, 127-130, 145, 



1 S3> 2 54 



Shaw & Jack, Messrs, 99 

 Sheepshead, 155, 156 

 Shells of the Gulf shore, 170 

 Sherry's, 22, 169, 177 

 " Shiner," the, 155 

 Ship, life on board, 5, 260 

 Shonts, Mr (in favour of Chinese 



Labour), 247 



Sierra Leone, negroes from, 260 

 Silk-fish, 222 

 Silver mullet, 154 

 Sinclair, Mr (author of The 



Jungle}, 4 



