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271 



Sinkers for tarpon-fishing, 96, 114 

 Skill in tarpon-fishing, 145 

 Skinner, Mr (Port of Spain), 258 

 Skyscrapers, 18, 20 

 Slave Coast, miles of the, 260 

 Slavery, the question of, 74 

 Smokers and smoking in America, 



25 



Snakes, 63, 91, 170-172, 213 

 Soquilla, the, 66 

 Southern Railroad, the, 57 

 Spada, the, 222 

 Spanish mackerel, 155, 156 

 Main, the, 106, 250-255 

 town (Jamaica), 204, 231 

 Sparrow, the black, 210 

 Sphyrcena, 220 

 Spices, 207 



" Spiggoties," 183, 241, 254 

 Sporting ideals, 83 

 Squeateague, the spotted, 80, 155 

 Squirrels, 64 

 Starling, imitative powers of the, 



165 

 proposal to introduce the, 



into Jamaica, 211 

 " Star-spangled Banner," the, 10, 



61 

 Steam-shovels on the Isthmus, 



245 



Steerage, life in the, 7 

 Stegomyia, 223, 227, 238, 239, 243, 



244 



Steller's sea-lion, 56 

 Stevens, Mr (late chief engineer 



to the Panama Canal), 235 

 Still-fishing, 115, 120, 149-152 

 Stores of the Caronia, 13, 14 

 Subways in New York, 20 

 Suez Canal, 75, 241 

 Sugar-cane, 204 



mills in Cuba, 196 



planting in Jamaica, 



205, 207, 217 

 Sullivan, Mr (acting chief engineer 



at Panama), 245 

 Swannanoa, the, 58 



TABLETS, turtle, 216 

 Tackle, tarpon, 84, 112-117 

 cost of, 96 



Tagus, R.M.S., 215, 231-263 

 Tail, the tarpon's, 102 

 Tampa, 176 



Tampa Port, 108, 175, 176 

 Tampico, tarpon-fishing at, 108 

 Tanks, decoration of aquarium, 38 



labels for, 38 

 Tarantula, 216 

 Tarpon-fishing, 83-152, 231 

 Tarpon, character of the, 105 

 baits for, 118-120 

 cost of setting up, 99 

 distribution of, 108 

 food of, 104 

 natural history of, 100- 



iii 



scales of, 102 

 size and weight of, 88, 



102, 107 



ways of losing a, 147 

 Tate, H. B. (tarpon caught by), 



137, 138, 139 

 Tautogolabrus, 39 

 Tea drunk in America, 23, 24 



grown in Jamaica, 207 

 Temne tribes, 260 

 "Tenderloin," the, 4 1 

 Texas, tarpon-fishing in, 108, 109, 



119 

 " The Girl of the Golden West," 



26 



The Jungle, 4 

 Theodore Paleologos, 258 

 Thomson, Mr (head keeper of the 



London Zoo), 256 

 Ticks, 196, 206, 209, 211 

 Times, the, 103 

 " Ting-ting," the, 211 

 Tip declined, a, 246 

 Titchfield Hotel (Port Antonio), 



228 

 Tobacco grown in Cuba, 192, 193, 



196 



Jamaica, 207 



" Tom-fool," the, 212, 213 

 Top-minnow, the, 39 

 Tortoises, 170 



Tourist resort, Jamaica as a, 219 

 Townsend Mr (curator of the N. 



Y. Aquarium), 36 

 Toxaway, 59-68 

 " Toxaway," the, 63 

 Travel, cost of, 96 



virtues of, 262 

 Tree-ferns, 204 

 Trent, R.M.S., 231 

 Trinidad, 257, 262 



