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INDEX 



Pratt, Charles (guide), 137, 138, 



139 

 Prawn bait for tarpon, 120, 149 

 Promicrops, 153 

 Protection of wild birds, 169 

 Punta Gorda, 48, 74, 77-81, 91 

 Pyrophorus, 217 



Quail, 168 



,, call of the, 166 

 Queen's Park Hotel (Port of 



Spain), 257, 258 

 Queenstown, 3 

 Quinine, 226 

 <2uiscalus, 2 1 1 



Rachycentron, 153 



Railroad travel in America, 43, 44, 



46-50, 57-59. 75, 76 

 Railroad travel in Cuba, 192-197 

 „ England, i 



„ Jamaica, 219, 



229 

 Rain at Havana, 191 



,, Port Antonio, 228 

 „ Port of Spain, 22S 

 Rainbow trout, 53, 67 

 Raleigh holds North Carolina, 61 

 Ramsbottom, G. H. (tarpon 



caught by), 137, 138, 139, 142 

 Rattlesnakes, 169, 171, 172 

 Rays, leaping, 87, 153 

 Red bug, 173 



Reel, the tarpon, 96, 97, 112, 113 

 Remoras, 153 

 Reptile Houses, 31 

 Reptiles of Florida, 170, 172 

 „ Jamaica, 213, 214 



Pvepublican ideals, 41, 42 

 Rifle detained at the Havana 



Customs, 182 

 Ringtail pigeon, 216 

 Roach,Mr(Ownerof Useppa), 155 

 Road, rule of the, 24 

 Roderick Random, memories of, 



250 

 Rod-rest, 116 



Rod, the tarpon, 96, 1 12, 140 

 Roosevelt, estimate of President, 



55 

 ,, interview with, 51 



Roper, IVtr (Jamaica), 204, 213 

 Rose Salterne, memories of, 254 

 Ross, Major Ronald, 223 



Royal Mail, S.S. Co., 215 

 Ruffed grouse, 63, 68 

 Rum, 218 



St Ann (Jamaica), 204, 211 

 St Paul on thirst, 21 

 Salmon and tarpon-fishing, com- 

 pared, 87 

 Sanabel Island, 158 

 Sanborn, Mr (photographer to the 



N.Y.Z.S.),33 

 Sancho Panza (quoted), 21 

 Sandy Hook, 14 

 San Francisco, earthquake at, 19, 



17 

 Santa Catalina, 95 

 Santa Clara (Cuba), 192, 193 

 Santa Cruz (Cuba), 195, 207 

 Santiago di Cuba, 196, 197, 207 

 Sapphire, Lake, 63, 66 

 Sargo, 156 

 Saturday Revie-d', Mr E. Selous 



in the, 29 

 Savanilla, 232, 253 

 Sawfish, 154 

 Saw-grass, 160 

 Scales, tarpon, 102 

 Scia'nops, 153 

 Scotnberomorus, 153, 155 

 Sea-level type of canal, 235 

 Sea-lions, 32, 37, 56 

 Seals, 30 



Season for tarpon-fishing, 106 

 Selous, Mr E., 29 



„ Mr F. C, 53 

 Seminole Indians, 160 

 "September," the, 212 

 Setting up tarpon, cost of, 99 

 Settlements in Cuba, alien, 195 

 Sharks, 84, 86, 89, 127-130, 145, 



153,254 

 Shaw & Jack, Messrs, 99 

 Sheepshead, 155, 156 

 Shells of the Gulf shore, 170 

 Sherry's, 22, 169, 177 

 " Shiner," the, 155 

 Ship, life on board, 5, 260 

 Shonts, Mr (in favour of Chinese 



Labour), 247 

 Sierra Leone, negroes from, 260 

 Silk-fish, 222 

 Silver mullet, 154 

 Sinclair, Mr (author of The 

 Ji/ug/e), 4 



