170 Big Game Fishes 
of a jack beat could be heard, sometimes a dozen 
times from the reef, and so exciting was the inci- 
dent that generally some one would pull off 
and join the gulls, pelicans, and other curious 
ones. At this time the fish would bite at any- 
thing. A handkerchief dashed through the water, 
a piece of coral thrown in, — indeed, any object 
would be seized; and I have seen several fisher- 
men cast their lines into the throng, and become 
so excited that an inextricable tangle was the 
result. 
The jack, like many other fishes, changes its 
name with the locality. On the reef where I 
caught it winter and summer, around Long, 
Sand, Bush, Garden, Loggerhead, and other 
keys, it was the jack pure and simple. On the 
Cuban coast it is toro. At Porto Rico it is 
jack, and jiguagua, but up the coast at Indian 
River it becomes cavally, while the South Caro- 
linians call it horse crevallé. It ranges the 
waters of the Gulf of Mexico and vicinity, on the 
Pacific side of the isthmus, and is common in 
the region of Panama; but for some reason the 
fish does not range north on this coast, despite 
the warm water. In the Atlantic, specimens 
have been seen as far north as Cape Cod, but 
