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INDEX 



Espeut, 208, 211 

 " European plan," the, 78 

 Ewarton (Jamaica), 204, 206 

 Express Companies in the States, 

 48 



Fairfield, Lake, 64, 66, 68 

 Falco, 210 



Farlow, Messrs Chas,, 98 

 Fearon, Mr (Cartagena), 252 

 Ffennell's annual list of salmon, 



Mr, 102 

 Fiddler crab, 143, 156, 157 

 Finlay, Dr (Havana), 194 

 Fin-ray, tarpon's long, loi 

 Fire, the ordeal by, 70 

 Fireflies, 173, 217 

 Fish Commission, the U.S., 40 

 Fishery laws in Carolina, 67 

 „ Jamaica, 231 



Fishing off Boca Grande, 83-152 

 ,, Bridgetown, 260 



„ Cartagena, 250, 251 



,, Jamaica, 231 



,, La Guaira, 254 



„ Punta Gorda, 79 



,, Savanilla, 253 



,, Toxaway, 65-67 



„ Useppa, 154, 155 



Five-cent fare, creed of the, 21 

 Flat-iron buildings, 20, 31 

 " Flicker," the, 63 

 Flies, trout (for Toxaway), 66 

 Florida, bird-life in, 165-9 

 „ coast of, 175 

 „ fishing in, 79, 80, 83-157 

 „ food in, 78 

 „ railroad travel in, 70, 75 

 ,, suited to wild birds, 168 

 Fly for tarpon, 120, 149 

 Flying cage, the, 31 



„ fish as food, 259 

 Food at Bridgetown, 259 

 „ in Florida, 78 

 ,, Havana, 184 



„ Jamaica, 203 



„ New York, 22 



„ Port of Spain, 258 



„ railroad depots, 193 



„ on board ship, 13 



Forest and Streaiii (quoted), 146 

 Fort Myers, 76, 92, 150 

 Foul-hooked fish, 134 

 " Four Hundred," the, 41 



Franklin, Benjamin, 128 

 Fraternity, the Republican ideal 



of, 42 

 Free trade, America against, 1 5 

 Frontiersmen's league, the, 122 

 Fronton, the (Havana), i88 

 Fruit-growing in Cuba, 196 

 „ Florida, 75 



„ Jamaica, 218 



Gaffs and gaffing, 116, 117, 125, 



147 

 Galeichthys, 155 

 Galveston, a fatality off, 149 

 Gaiiibiisia, 39 

 " Garden of Jamaica," the, 204, 



205 

 Garfish, 154 



„ as bait, 119, 221 

 Garrupa, 153 



Gasparel Island, no, 116, 169 

 Gccarcmus, 216 

 Gecko, 213 



Geese, white-fronted, 30 

 Gelasiinus, 156 

 Geographical distribution of the 



tarpon, 108 

 Georgia, 70 



German Club at Havana, 18S 

 Gilead Beck, 19 

 Gills of the tarpon, 102 

 Goats, Rocky Mountain, 28 

 Gordon-Cumming, 167 

 Gorgas, Colonel, 40, 54, 194, 223, 



239, 243, 244 

 Gorge-fishing, 149 

 Gosse, 208 



Grabham, Dr (Kingston), 225 

 Grassi, Prof., 223 

 Green turtle, 215 

 Grenada, tarpon in, no 

 Griffith, Mr (H.B.M. Consul, 



Havana), 182 

 Grouper, 86, 134, 154 

 „ black, 153 

 ,, red, 153 

 Grouse, rufied, 63, 68 

 Grunt, the, 155 

 Guadancros (Havana), 181 

 Guide to the N. Y. Zoological 



Park, 33 

 Guides, tarpon, cost of, 68 



„ gaffing done by, 



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