96 SUNSHINE AND SPORT IN 



I. As regards the cost of travel, the journey out 

 and home will amount to about seventy-five pounds 

 on the basis of direct first-class travel from Liver- 

 pool to Useppa and back, via New York and the 

 Southern and other railroads. Such a sum includes, 

 sufficiently but not lavishly, personal expenses on 

 ships and trains, but the traveller cannot on such an 

 estimate drink champagne, nor will he be able to 

 tip stewards and conductors on a scale to shame 

 millionaires. Anyone minded to break the journey 

 at New York should be able, from what has already 

 been said, to arrive at an idea of the additional ex- 

 pense entailed. 



II. The cost of tarpon-tackle is heavy, particu- 

 larly if it is to be used once only, for a fortnight or 

 three weeks. Very little change will remain out of 

 a twenty-pound note — a severe tax for the parapher- 

 nalia of so brief a fishing holiday. My own account 

 with Vom Hofe, of Fulton Street, New York City, 

 the acknowledged premier depot for tarpon tackle, 

 reads (translated into sterling) as follows : — 



; ^I9 2 10 



To this mav be added another half-sovereien 

 for the purchase of sinkers, a stock of which is kept 

 at Useppa, though in this department, as will pre- 



