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INDEX 



La Guaira, 254 



Lakeland, 48, 76, 81 



Lancaster, Mr (Purser on the 



Caronia), 9 

 "Land of the Sky," 64, 68 

 La Popa (Cartagena), 353 

 Laws, Captain (of H. M.S. Tagus), 



248, 254 

 Leatham, Charles (guide), 137, 



138. 139 

 Leeward Islands, the, 257 

 Leicester, Mr (lighthouse-keeper 



at Boca Grande), no, 122 

 Leopard shark, 129 

 Letters of credit, 44 

 Levera, Lake, no 

 " Liberia," by Sir H. H. Johnston, 



260 

 Liberty, the republican ideal of, 



41 

 Line, the tarpon, 113 

 Lion houses, 32 

 Literature, zoological, 33 

 Lizards of Jamaica, 213, 214 

 Lock type of canal, 235 

 Loeb, Mr (Secretary at the White 



House), 52 

 Loggerhead turtle, 169, 215 

 London, Mr Jack, 159 

 Louisiana heron, the, 169 

 Loxigi/la, 210 



Luck in fishing, 89, 142, 143, 144 

 Lumsden, Col. D. M. (tarpon 



caught by), 137, 138, 139 



M'Catty, Dr (Montego Bay), 



225 

 M'Farlane, Mr (chief engineer on 



the Carojtia), 1 1 

 M'Guire, Fulton (guide), 137 

 „ W. „ 138 



Machete, uses of the, 196 

 Machina, the (Havana), 182 

 Madeira, 109, 156, 162, 222 

 Magdalena, the, 254 

 Maine, wreck of the, 181, 1S7 

 Maja, the, 194 

 " Make him jump," 86, 124 

 Malaria, 173, 226, 227, 243 

 Malecon, the (Havana), 184, 190 

 Mallard, 30 

 Mandeville, 204 

 Mangroves, 91 

 Man-o'-war hawk, 81, 90 



Manson, Sir Patrick, theory 



touching the Panama Canal, 



238 

 Manson, Sir Patrick, work done 



by, 223 

 Marconi telegraphy, lo, 11 

 Maria, Port, 227 

 Mark Twain at the Carnegie 



Hall, 16 

 Martinique, negroes of, 24 

 " Mason and Dixon line,' the, 61 

 Maxwell, Sir H., 100 

 Mediterranean, Cunard cruise in 

 the, 6 

 „ tunny in the, 109 



Megalops, 100 

 Mellor, A. K. (tarpon caught by), 



138 

 Melodrama m America, 26 

 Mende tribes, the, 260 

 Merlin, 210 



Mexico, tarpon-fishing in, log 

 Milk River (Jamaica), no 

 MiUionaires, 3, 29 

 Mimus, 166 

 "Minnow" bait, 155 

 Miraflores, dispensary at 



(Panama), 243 

 Miramar, the (Havana), 184, 188 

 Mitchell, Dr Chalmers, 36 

 Mocassin, 31, 170 

 Mocking bird, 60, 89, 165, 168, 



179 

 Moneague (Jamaica), 203, 204, 



206, 209, 210, 212 

 Monkeys in Jamaica, 209 

 Montego Bay, 210, 216, 219, 223 

 Moonlight fishing, 86 

 Morro, the (Havana), 181, 190 



„ (Santiago), 197 



Mosquito coast, the, 214 

 Mosquito-hawk, 213 

 Mosquitoes in Cuba, 194, 195 



„ Florida, 75, 106, 



173 

 „ Havana, 171 



,, Montego Bay, 216, 



220, 223, 224 

 „ Panama, 239 



„ Toxaway country, 



64 

 Mount Morgan, 69 

 Mountains, railway travel in, 58, 

 229 



