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Mouth— Maximum Weight and Length — Difficulty of 

 obtaining Records — Two Different Types — Natural Food 

 — An Autopsy — The Tarpon's Character — Its Stupidity 

 — Boldness when Hooked — Its Efforts to Escape — 

 Formula for obtaining Weight from Measurements — 

 Waste of these Grand Fish — Its Geographical Distribu- 

 tion — Little Known of its Breeding and Migration — 

 Curious Occurrence in Landlocked Waters in the West 

 Indies — A Chance for American Ichthyologists — The 

 Tackle — Rod — Reel — Line — Sinkers — A Foolish 

 Practice — Hook and Wire Snell — Rod Rest — Playing the 

 Fish to the Gaff — Bad Gaffing by the Guides — The Bait 

 — Method of Cutting — Cost of Bait — Bait used in Texas 

 — Originality unprofitable — Stale Bait — Other Baits used 

 in the Caribbean — The Methods of Fishing — Pass-fishing 

 — Description of a Day in Boca Grande — Luck all round 

 —The First Strike—" Make Him Jump ! "—A Great 

 Fight — A Fish on the Beach — The Colonel's Big Fish — 

 Adventure with a Huge Shark — Towed for over Two 

 Hours — End of the Episode — Bad Fishing with a 

 Borrowed Tip — A Lively Afternoon — Success of Ladies 

 — Mr Vom Hofe and His Turtle— A Kingfish to the 

 Rescue — Reckless Slaughter — Useppa Record for igo6 — 

 General Principles — Stoutness of Tarpon Tackle — 

 Adventure with a Foul-hooked Tarpon — A Fish following 

 the Bait to the Boat — Luck versus Experience — The Law 

 of Compensation — Record Luck of Lord Desborough — 

 Where Skill comes in — Ways in which a Tarpon may be 

 Lost — Accidents in Tarpon-fishing — Still-fishing — Letter 

 from a Sportsman at Fort Myers — Other Fishing — 

 "Vermin" of the Pass — Fishes Caught round Useppa — 

 " Trout" — Catfish — Sheepshead — Burrowing Animals 

 Characteristic of Florida — An Alligator Hunt — A Fight 

 with Vegetation — Digging out an Alligator — The 

 Occupant away from Home — A Small Specimen 

 Secured — Natural History Notes — Alligators and 

 Crocodiles of Florida — The Mocking-Bird — Mimicry of 

 Animal Voices — "Whip-poor-will" — Herons and Egrets 

 — Florida suited as a Home of Birds — Bird Protection a 

 Farce — Loggerhead Turtles— Bears and Turtles' Eggs 

 — Shells of the Pass — Snakes — Catching a Rattlesnake 

 in a Butterfly- net — Noxious Insects — Mosquitoes — 

 Good-bye to Florida — Tampa to Key West — Absence 

 of Beauty in the Latter — Last Memories of Florida 83-179 



